TWiV 188: Haggis, single malt, and viruses

June 17, 2012

Centre for Virus Research GlasgowHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Massimo Palmarini, John MacLauchlan, Emma Thomson, and Hande Harmanci.

Vincent travels to Scotland to meet with members of the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow to discuss their work on hepatitis C virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.

Play

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 188 (78 MB .mp3, 108 minutes).

Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.

Links for this episode:

Weekly Science Picks

Vincent – Microbe art

Listener Pick of the Week

Judi - Cell Imaging (Mac App Store)

Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

  • http://twitter.com/GertrudRey Gertrud Rey

    I have a question about the word “core”.  When I was working on West Nile virus, the words “capsid” and “core” were used interchangeably and were a matter of preference.  Is that the case for HCV, or are capsid and core two different structural proteins?

  • http://www.virology.ws profvrr

    The capsid is composed of the core protein; but some people also call it the capsid protein. Fortunately, the abbreviation for the protein is C. While the usage seems a matter of preference, I would say that nucleocapsid or capsid is most accurate. Core doesn’t convey the same information.