December 25, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to [...]
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December 18, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 162 (56 MB .mp3, 93 minutes). Subscribe to [...]
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December 11, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Gabriel Victora Vincent, Rich, Alan and Gabriel review the production of antibodies by B cells, and how high affinity antibodies are selected in the germinal centers of lymph nodes. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 161 [...]
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December 4, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Patrick Moore The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 160 [...]
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November 27, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 159 (48 MB .mp3, 80 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV [...]
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November 20, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alice Telesnitsky, and Kathy Spindler Vincent and Rich visit the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, and speak with Alice and Kathy about their work on HIV genome dimerization, and packaging and pathogenesis of mouse adenovirus. Model of poliovirus bound to CD155 made by Stefan Taube. [...]
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November 13, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, Jeremy Luban, and Gabriel Victora A large TWiV panel remembers Ralph Steinman, and considers a new innate sensor of retroviral capsids. Photograph of a dendritic cell (green) interacting with T cells (cyan) near a blood vessel by Gabriel Victora. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [...]
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November 6, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Vincent, Rich, and Dickson review a meta-analysis on influenza vaccine, a killer virus in fungi that selects against RNAi, and the use of armed and targeted poxviruses for oncolytic virotherapy. Please help us by taking our listener survey. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download [...]
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October 30, 2011
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. Click the arrow above to play, or [...]
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October 23, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich are very enthusiastic about two studies that show how gut bacteria help viral invaders. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 154 (46 MB .mp3, 77 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the [...]
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