by Vincent Racaniello on January 3, 2010
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss ten compelling virology stories of 2009.
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Ten virology stories of 2009:
Pandemic influenza: Swine-origin [...]
by Vincent Racaniello on August 16, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Jennifer Drahos
Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Jennifer Drahos tackle the Hendra virus disease outbreak in Australia, AIDS-like disease in wild chimps, return of polio type 2 in Nigeria, the influenza pandemic wave, and rabies in three countries.
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by Vincent Racaniello on May 17, 2009
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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Death of Marsha Mason, [...]
by Vincent Racaniello on April 27, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about insect and human dengue virus host proteins, equine vaccine for WNV and EEEV, return of swine flu to humans, spread of polio in Africa, and listener email.
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by Vincent Racaniello on January 24, 2009
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier Guest: Saul Silverstein
Vincent, Dick, and Saul talk about discoveries in virology that have had a major impact on the field.
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Sem•i•nal (adjective): strongly influencing later developments.
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Gates [...]
by Vincent Racaniello on October 29, 2008
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
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Dickson was at Pop!Tech last week.
Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon.
US Geological Survey Disease Maps.
CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses.
The flying fox (Google image search).
Vincent’s virology course.
Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology, third edition, ASM Press (available December 2008).
Science podcast pick of the week: Brain Science [...]
by Vincent Racaniello on September 26, 2008
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
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polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio.
Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”.
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