A netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick
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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October 16, 2011
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 153 (55 MB .mp3, 92 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , [...]
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October 9, 2011
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. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 152 (50 MB .mp3, 83 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the [...]
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October 2, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review questions and comments from TWiV listeners. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 151 (49 MB .mp3, 81 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on [...]
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September 25, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome. With this episode TWiV is three years old. Click the arrow above to play, [...]
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September 18, 2011
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Mark Pallansch, and Trine Tsouderos Vincent, Rich, Mark, and Trine discuss science and medicine in journalism and the eradication of poliovirus at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 149 (62 MB .mp3, 86 minutes). Subscribe [...]
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