Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Alfred Sacchetti

Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson speak with Alfred Sacchetti, MD, Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, about viral infections encountered in the emergency room.

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Links for this episode:

• Dr. Sacchetti’s posts at EM-blog
• Molluscum contagiousum
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 132

Weekly Science Picks

Al – The Physics of Superheroes and NKT Watch
Dickson - Fibonacci Fun by Trudi Hammel Garland and Rachel Gage
Rich – Retraction Watch
Alan – Neil deGrasse’s comments on UFOs, argument from ignorance, and scientific method (YouTube)
Destanie – Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
Vincent – The intestinal microbiota and viral susceptibility

Listener Pick of the Week

Jim  - Extraordinary Measures

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Marc Pelletier

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication in Aedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont.

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Links for this episode:

• Replication and expression of limited numbers of incoming viral genomes
• The brainbow cassette
• Release of Wolbachia infected mosquitoes in Australia (story one, two)
• Journal articles on Wolbachia infection of mosquitoes (Cell, PloS Pathogens)
• Wolbachia discussion on TWiV 61
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 115

Weekly Science Picks

Marc – Homebrew bioreactor (photo, movie) – culture bottle and drive, oil-free vacuum pumps
Rich – Logitech Harmony Universal Remote
Alan – H.M.S. Challenger Reports
Vincent – Sequence of the strawberry genome and blog post by lead author

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a second installment of their discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.

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Links for this episode:

• Figures for this episode (pdf)
• Letters read on TWiV 106
• Video of this episode – download .mov or .wmv or view below

Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Google Health
Dickson – The Neandertal genome
Vincent – Lab techniques videos (thanks, Erik!)

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dave Bloom, and Grant McFadden

Vincent and Rich spoke with Dave Bloom and Grant McFadden about their work on herpesviruses and poxviruses in this episode recorded before an audience at the University of Florida, Gainesville – home of the Gators.

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Links for this episode:

• Epigenetic modulation of herpes simplex virus gene expression (thanks, Matthew!)
• The Red Queen and Tierra virtual environment: article one, two, three (thanks, Jesper!)
• Hand-held HIV detector (thanks, Jim!)
• Anti-angiogenic cancer therapy combined with oncolytic virotherapy (thanks, Bill!)
• TWiV at UF Gainesville (jpg)
• Letters read on TWiV 84

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Charles F. Littlewood photographs
Vincent - Not so humble pie (thanks, Sophie!)
Grant – The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
David –  Is Parkinson’s Disease a prion disorder?

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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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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?

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

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Guest: Alan Dove

Vincent, DIck, and Alan chat about reconstruction of a bat SARS-like coronavirus, herpesviruses that are killing elephants in zoos, and a plan to eradicate AIDS in ten years.

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Links for this episode:

• The Virology Network at socialmedian.com.
• The bat SARS-like coronavirus: scientific article in PNAS, and the Wired Science article.
• NY Times Editorial on eradicating AIDS.
• Herpesviruses killing elephants.

Science podcast pick of the week: Futures in Biotech.
Science book of the week: Principles of Molecular Virology, by AJ Cann.

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Host: Vincent Racaniello

Special guest: Saul Silverstein

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Links for this episode:

• Dickson Despommier is away this week at Pop!Tech.
• CDC pages on herpes and zoster (shingles).

Episode transcript (download pdf)

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