Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Grant McFadden, Eurico de Arruda Neto, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Francisco Murilo Zerbini, and Janice Reis Ciacci Zanella.

Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss their work on bocavirus, infectious bronchitis virus, begomoviruses, and circoviruses at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Links for this episode:

• Program of the XXII Brazilian Virology Meeting (pdf)
• Sociedade Brasiliera de Virologia
• Journal of the Brazilian Society for Virology
• Photographs from the meeting at TWiV Facebook or Picasa
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 155
• Video of this episode – view below or download 640×480 .mp4 file

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Vincent – AAM Colloquium Program
Grant – The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Listener Pick of the Week

Antonio – 2011 Nobel Laureates Lectures at Lindau

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Raul Rabadan

Vincent, Alan, and Raul Rabadan converse about polio survivors in iron lungs, bocavirus, structure of mimivirus, and genome sequence analysis of influenza H1N1 viruses.

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Links for this episode:

TWiV will be live at the ASM General Meeting in Philadelphia on Tuesday, May 19, 2:00 PM, Press Room 203A. Video will be streamed live at this location.

Weekly Science Picks
Alan The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia
Vincent Pi Cubed for iPhone/iPod Touch (Sunset Lake Software, $9.99)
Raul Science and New England Journal articles on H1N1 influenza

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Marc Pelletier

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Marc Pelletier summarize the past week’s influenza H1N1 activity, and discuss parvovirus infection of dogs and humans.

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Links for this episode:

• CDC and WHO web pages on the new influenza strain
• MMWR update on influenza
• Excellent influenza vaccine timeline at USA Today
• Sequences of influenza isolates are at NCBI and GISAID (registration required)
• Euthanizing dogs due to canine parvovirus
• Novel bocavirus associated with acute gastroenteritis in Australian children
• Viral genes that confer transmission of avian influenza virus through the air – PNAS
• Influenza in feral pigs (J Wildlife Dis)

Weekly Science Picks
Marc Celestia, an application
Dick US Geological Survey website
Alan Society for Amateur Scientists website
Vincent Sneeze, an online game

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