Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review an outbreak of rabies in arctic foxes and reindeer in Norway, and a prion that makes you go antiviral.

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Links for this episode:

• Goodbye Dennis Ritchie (boingboing)
• Rabies in Svalbard (Eurosurveillance)
• Where is Longyearbyen? (Google maps)
• Svalbard global seed vault (Wikipedia)
• WHO map of rabies prevalence (pdf)
• US rabies surveillance, 2010
• A prion-like aggregate in innate immunity (Cell)
• Virology lectures on prions (#24) and virus entry (#5)
• Susan Lindquist on prions at FiB (#77, #57)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 153

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Amoebas microscope drive 2011
Vincent – WolframAlpha
Rich – Genesis by Ramos David (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Bill -Virolution by Frank Ryan

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Andrew Baker, Karl-Klaus Conzelmann, Peter Palese, and Katharina Eisenächer

A conversation about the RNA sensor RIG-I, adenovirus gene therapy, a universal influenza vaccine, and rabies virus, recorded in Munich, Germany at the SFB455 symposium ‘Viral offense and immune defense’.

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Links for this episode:

• SFB455 Symposium scientific program
• Letters read on TWiV 102
• Virologists having fun (YouTube video)
• Video of this episode – view below or download .mov (394 MB) or .wmv (506 MB)

Weekly Science Picks

Katharina – Deutsches Museum
Vincent – HHMI holiday lectures on science (thanks Judi!)

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the finding of murine leukemia virus-related sequences in the blood of CFS patients and healthy donors, laboratory inventories for wild poliovirus containment, weaving high-performance viral batteries into fabric for the military, and a case of human rabies in Indiana.

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Links for this episode:

• MLV-related sequences in blood of CFS patients (commentary)
• Laboratory inventories for poliovirus containment
• Viral batteries for the military (abstract) – also see TWiV 28
• Human rabies, Kentucky/Indiana, 2009
• Letters read on TWiV 98

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – NCBI ROFL
Rich – The Great Bridge by David McCullough
Vincent – Dr. Rous’ Prize-Winning Chicken

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matthew Frieman

Vincent, Alan, and Matt review contamination of Rotarix with circovirus DNA, antigenic similarity between 1918 and 2009 H1N1 influenza, a collection of rabies reports, and chicken pox mistaken for smallpox in Uganda.

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Links for this episode:

• Contamination of Rotarix vaccine with porcine circovirus 1 DNA
• Beak and feather disease circovirus (BFDV) threatens parrots
• Antigenic similarity between 1918 and 2009 H1N1 influenza
• Presumptive abortive human rabies in Texas
• Rabies rampant: feline, immunization change, Indonesia, wolf, Texas bat, US equine (thanks, Lenn!)
• Austin free tailed bats emerging at dusk
• Suspected smallpox in Uganda
• T-cell receptor therapy for AIDS (thanks Dorian!)

Weekly Science Picks

Matt Bitesize Bio
Alan Free printable graph paper (see also doane paper)
Vincent Avian Flu Diary

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about US government contract for freeze-dried smallpox vaccine, red squirrels in the UK threatened by poxvirus, and Marseillevirus, another DNA virus from amoebae built for comfort and speed.

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Links for this episode:

• US Government awards contract to Bavarian Nordic for freeze-dried smallpox vaccine (pdf and clinical trial)
• UK red squirrels threatened by poxvirus: news article one and two, epidemiology and experimental infection
• Another huge virus from amoebae (Wired article, PNAS article, review article)
• Discussion on rabies bait vaccine at virology blog, and status of the program
• List of human viral diseases (pdf)

Weekly Science Picks
Rich Infectious Awearables
Alan Darwine
Vincent Microbial Art

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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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Links for this episode:

Weekly Science Picks
Jennifer Art of Science 2009
Vincent Nobel Intent
Dick Diversity of Life by EO Wilson
Alan MediaWiki (install tips)

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Delthia Ricks

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Delthia Ricks discuss a new influenza virus-like particle vaccine, dog flu, ultrasensitive pen-sized virus detector, imported rabies in the US, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and next season’s flu vaccines.

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Links for this episode:

Weekly Science Picks
Delthia 100 questions and answers about influenza by Delthia Ricks
Alan Tinychat
Dick Mythbusters
Vincent Effect Measure

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich Condit chat about infectious salmon anemia virus, virus-resistant grapevines, virulence of pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, origin of 1918 influenza virus, holy water ban to halt influenza, frequency of human WU and KI polyomavirus infection, rabies in China, and host species of sin nombre virus.

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Links for this episode:

Weekly Science Picks
Alan For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
Rich Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Dick Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Vincent Gallileoscope (thanks Zach!)

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Glenn Rall

Vincent and Glenn Rall chat about koi herpesvirus, H1N1 influenza vaccine produced in insect cells, attack by a rabid raccoon, and measles.

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Links for this episode:

Weekly Science Picks
Glenn Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk
Vincent All the Virology on the WWW

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Luis Villarreal

Vincent, Alan, and Luis talk about rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebolavirus and West Nile virus, and viral evolution.

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Links for this episode:

• Furious rabies after an atypical exposure
• Rabies outbreak in Angola
• Ebolavirus needle stick injury in Germany
• West Nile virus needle stick injury in South Africa
• Antibody response to smallpox vaccine in humans (including Dr. Villarreal)
• The chemical formula for poliovirus is:
• C_332,652H_492,388N_98,245O_131,196P_7,501S_2,340
• Because poliovirus is a quasispecies the number of atoms is a population average.
• Review article: Ten Reasons to Exclude Viruses from the Tree of Life
• Origin and Evolution of Viruses, second edition, edited by Esteban Domingo
• Origin of Group Identity by Luis Villarreal

Science blog of the week: Small Things Considered by Moselio Schaechter and Merry Youle
Science podcast pick of the week: The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
Science book of the week: Viruses and the Evolution of Life by Luis Villarreal

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