Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and David Baltimore

Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 100th episode of TWiV by talking about viruses with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #100 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• David’s early papers on poliovirus and mengovirus RNA synthesis
• Reverse transcriptase found by Baltimore and Temin (pdfs)
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
• David fishing (Picasa web album)
• The David Baltimore asteroid belt
• Cedric’s essay The ‘Death’ of a Virus (pdf)
• Letters read on TWiV 100

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Alan – TimeTree
Rich – The neurons that shaped civilization
Vincent – Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore’s Life in Science by Shane Crotty

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Lynn Enquist

Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way he did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses.

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Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #54 (63 MB .mp3, 87 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Holliday junction
• Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA
• Restriction enzymes
• Movies of herpesvirus movement in nerve cells
• The ‘other‘ Enquist lab
• Can you find the TWiV 54 hosts in this photo?

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Lynn Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets by Robert Olby
Vincent ViralZone

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