Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich cover the virome of raw sewage, and a baculovirus gene that causes caterpillars to climb to their doom.

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Links for this episode:

• Viruses in raw sewage (mBio)
• Surprising number of viruses in sewage (EurekAlert!)
• Shinola
• Gene for an extended phenotype (Science)
• Liquefying virus uses one gene (Ed Yong)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 152

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – xkcd tribute to Steve Jobs
Vincent – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address (YouTube)
Rich – 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

David - Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Eric F. Donaldson

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Eric discuss identification of viruses in Northeastern American bats, vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with a military vaccinee, and identification of a new flavivirus from an Old World bat in Bangladesh.

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Links for this episode:

• Vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with vaccinee
• Smallpox vaccination overview
• Smallpox vaccine lesions (jpg)
• Smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island, NY (photo 1, photo 2)
• Isolation of a flavivirus from bats in Bangladesh (PLoS Pathogens)
• Review on hepatitis G virus
• Dickson has been teaching at Singularity University and fishing in Bozeman MT (jpg)
• Letters read on TWiV 90

Weekly Science Picks

Eric – Year of Darwin by Sean Carroll
Rich – March of the Penguins
Alan – Standing-height desks
Vincent – DengueWatch (thanks Richard!)

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matthew Frieman

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss a project to study the RNA virome of Northeastern American bats, failure to detect XMRV in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients, and DNA of bornavirus, an RNA virus, in mammalian genomes.

This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. To receive $50 off a Drobo or $100 off a Drobo S, visit drobostore.com and use the promotion code VINCENT.

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Links for this episode:

• Mist net Indigo Tunnel, Western Maryland Railway (jpg)
• Eric Donaldson and Amy Haskew with bat in holding bag (jpg)
• XMRV not detected in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients (virology blog)
• Bornavirus DNA in the mammalian genome
• Arenavirus DNA can be integrated into the cell genome
• Rabid raccoons in Central Park, NYC

Weekly Science Picks
Matt 100 Incredible lectures from the world’s top scientists
Alan The Amateur Scientist CD
Vincent The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Joshua Stillman

Vincent, Dick, and Alan are joined by emergency medicine physician Dr. Joshua Stillman to talk about passive antibody therapy for Nipah infection in ferrets, annual influenza immunization of children, facemasks to prevent influenza, predicting dengue outbreaks by the weather, and the amazing viral communities in an icy Antarctic lake.

Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast

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Links for this episode:

• Post-exposure passive antibody therapy for Nipah virus in ferret
• Image above left shows Nipah viral antigen (red) in ferret brain ependymal epithelium
• Is yearly influenza vaccination of children a bad idea?
• Debate on N95 masks vs surgical masks to prevent influenza
• Weather patterns help predict dengue outbreaks
• Diverse viral community in Antarctica’s icy lakes (thanks Russ!)
• Tamiflu in Japanese river waters (see TWiV 40 – thanks Russ!)
• Chlorine dioxide gas removes influenza virus (thanks André!)

Weekly Science Picks
Dick Science News article: Enter the Virosphere
Alan WHO H1N1 timeline interactive map
Vincent Cheap Google accounts storage and How CDC estimates flu cases

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