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This Week in Virology Podcast
The netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick |
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This Week in Virology (TWiV) is a podcast - or netcast, as some prefer to call them, since you don’t need an iPod to listen - about viruses. It is hosted by Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier, two science Professors at Columbia University Medical Center. Their goal is to have an informal yet informative conversation about viruses which would be accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background. We wanted to eventually bring other virologists into the conversation, to make it more varied and interesting. Alan Dove, a science writer, joined us late in the year and we’ve had a few guests. Our goal for 2009 is to bring even more guests to TWiV.
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http://www.twiv.tv TWiV 237: Paleovirology with Michael Emerman
twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 16, 2013
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Guest: Michael Emerman
Vincent and Rich recorded this episode at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, where they met up with Michael to talk about his work on the molecular and evolutionary basis of HIV replication and pathogenesis.
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Molly - Facts in the case of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
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TWIV 236: Flu gets the VIP treatment twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 09, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan and Kathy review novel approaches to preventing influenza virus infection.
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Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Psychology of antivaccinationists
Vincent - Virology on Coursera
Kathy - Meteorites through the ages
Listener Pick of the Week
Basel - Self-medication in animals
Sheryl - Noadi's art
Felicity - Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem
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TWiV 235: Live in Edmonton, eh? twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Jun 03, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Guests: Dave Evans, Stan Lemon, and Lorne Tyrrell
Vincent and Rich recorded this episode before an audience at the 2nd Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Symposium at the University of Alberta, where they spoke with Dave, Stan, and Lorne about their work on poxvirus vaccines and recombination, an enveloped picornavirus, antivirals against hepatitis B and C viruses, and supporting virology research in Alberta.
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TWiV 234: Live in Denver twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 26, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler
Guests: Nels Elde and Tom Shenk
Vincent and Kathy recorded this episode before an audience at the 2013 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Denver, Colorado, where they spoke with Nels and Tom about their work on the evolution of virus-host conflict and how viruses influence the cell metabolome.
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TWiV 233: We're surrounded twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, May 18, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Rich, Alan and Kathy review aerosol transmission studies of influenza H1N1 x H5N1 reassortants, H7N9 infections in China, and the MERS coronavirus.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Space Oddity (YouTube)
Rich - Walk through giant colon
Vincent - Transport proteins
Kathy - Vomiting Larry (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Tom - US patent system is broken (DailyTech)
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TWiV 232: Gophers go viral twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 12, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Roberto Cattaneo, Reuben Harris, Lou Mansky, and Leslie Schiff
Vincent meets up with Roberto, Reuben, Lou, and Leslie at the University of Minnesota to talk about their work on HIV-1, APOBEC proteins, measles virus, and teaching virology to undergraduates.
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TWiV 231: Hepaciviruses and pegiviruses in bats and rodents twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 05, 2013
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Amit Kapoor, Lan Quan, and Ian Lipkin
Vincent meets up with Amit, Lan, and Ian to discuss their discovery of hepaciviruses and pegiviruses in bats and rodents.
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TWiV 230: Gene goes to Washington, flu chickens out twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 28, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Rich, Alan and Kathy review H7N9 infections in China, the debate over patenting genes, and receptor-binding by ferret-transmissible avian H5 influenza virus.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - World Science Festival
Rich - 3 years of the sun in 3 minutes
Vincent - The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin
Kathy - Wringing out a wet washcloth in space (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark - Will it blend? (iPhone app)
Marianne - Enjoy your Cells
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TWiV 229: Partly cloudy with a high of H7N9 twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 21, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Rich, Dickson, and Alan review the current status of human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Nature PastCast
Rich - How dengue does it
Vincent - Squeaky Squeegee Art by Deb Sklut
Dickson - Agritecture
Listener Pick of the Week
Mike - Chemistry in its element: Elements and Compounds
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TWiV 228: Cal Bears go viral twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 14, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Britt Glausinger, and Eva Harris
Vincent visits the University of California at Berkeley and speaks with Britt Glaunsinger and Eva Harris about their work on Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus and dengue virus.
Thanks to the Microbiology Graduate Students for hosting me at their annual symposium, and especially to Emma, Lisa, and Zoe for their wonderful hospitality during my stay.
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TWiV 227: Lacks security and bad poultry twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 07, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team reviews the controversial publication of the HeLa cell genome, a missing vial of Guanarito virus in a BSL-4 facility, and human infections with avian influenza H7N9 virus.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - NIAID YouTube videos
Alan - Lego insects
Rich - How to see the world in a grain of sand
Vincent - Vaccines, viruses, and the anti-vax movement
Dickson - Edinburgh Science Festival
Listener Pick of the Week
Stephen - Nature iOS app
Mehul - Voices for vaccines
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TWiV 226: Taking the viral A train with Terry Dermody twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Mar 30, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Terry Dermody
Vincent and Dickson speak with Terry Dermody about his career in medicine and virology.
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TWiV 225: Transcripts from the inbox twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Mar 23, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Rich, and Kathy read listener comments and questions on viral oncotherapy, science communication, a functional HIV cure in an infant, and much more.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - Case stories about CoV-EMC (one, two)
Rich - The Self-Illusion by Bruce Hood
Vincent - Moving Targets
Listener Pick of the Week
Liam - eLIFE and Rubriq
Steve - Plant virus ecology (mp3)
Neil - World Immunization Week
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TWiV 224: A wide receiver and a natural defense twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 17, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Dickson discuss identification of a cell receptor for the coronavirus-EMC, and the role of interferon-epsilon in protecting the female reproductive tract.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - 2013 Intel Science Talent Search awards
Alan - Krebs Cycle Rap (CDC)
Vincent - Jetpens (favorite one and two)
D ickson - Rabies death in organ recipients (CDC)
Listener Pick of the Week
Justin - The DNA Store
Jim - Massive Open Online Classrooms
Chris - Feedly
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TWiV 223: EEEV and the serpent twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 10, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss new influenza virus NA inhibitors, detection of EEEV antibody and RNA in snakes, and replication of the coronavirus EMC in human airway epithelial cells.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - Finkbeiner test and Women in Science
Alan - New flu vaccine efficacy study (CDC)
Vincent - Threading the NEIDL video
Listener Pick of the Week
Steve - Prof. Joan Steitz on viral RNA
Ed - Archiving history of molecular biology: Press release, video, CSHL archives and videos
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TWiV 222: Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a GAS GAS GAS twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 03, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team discusses the amazing finding that cyclic GMP-AMP synthase is a cytosolic innate immune DNA sensor.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - Graphene batteries
Alan - How do we get cures? (YouTube)
Rich - Explosive breach of Condit Dam (Vimeo)
Vincent - 10 things you can do to support open access (Tree of Life)
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark - The real story of Stuxnet
John - D-connector virus
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TWiV 221: Bunya there, done that twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent RacAuthor: aniello
Sun, Feb 24, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Dickson, and Kathy review two emerging bunyaviruses, SFTSV and SBV.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - Winners, 2012 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
Vincent - The Operator and Dr. Oz's Problem
Listener Pick of the Week
Shane - OpenPCR
John - Python
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TWiV 220: Flu watches the clock while T7 gets a CAT scan twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 17, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Kathy discuss regulation of influenza virus replication by splicing, and the bacteriophage T7 random walk.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Kathy - Journal of Virology Image Gallery
Rich - Phage T7 Genetics and Physiology and slab gels
Alan - PeerJ (press release)
Vincent - Virologia en Español
Listener Pick of the Week
Dave - Thingiverse pathogens and proteins
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TWiV 219: Fauci pharmacy twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 10, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Anthony S. Fauci
Vincent and Rich meet up with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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TWiV 218: Monkeys turning valves and pushing buttons twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 03, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Welkin Johnson
Vincent, Alan, and Welkin discuss how endogenous retroviruses in mice are held in check by the immune response.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Welkin - Viruses: Essential Agents of Life (review at STC)
Alan - Infinity Imagined
Vincent - Spaceship built for son
Listener Pick of the Week
Amanda - Written? Kitten!
Kevin - Protein synthesis: An epic (YouTube)
Daria - The Baltimore Scheme
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TWiV 217: I just flu in and my arms are shot twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Jan 26, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson review influenza vaccines.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Repoopulate (original article), Robogut (new clinical trial)
Alan - WTF, Evolution?
Dickson - The Beauty and Benefits of Science
Vincent - Supercomputing modeling of poliovirus
Listener Pick of the Week
Bjorn, Marshall, Meaghan - Glass sculptures of Luke Jerram
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TWiV 216: Processing VIRALGUUAACACCAGRNA twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 20, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy resume the virology 101 series with a discussion of RNA capping, splicing, and export.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Linus Pauling's explanation of science (YouTube)
Alan - Underwater experiments
Kathy - I'm a virus (YouTube)
Vincent - Stem cells (Bizarro Comics)
Listener Pick of the Week
Tom - The President's Analyst
Danielle - Overly honest methods (HuffPost and ASBMB Today)
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TWiV 215: Illuminating rabies and unwrapping a SARI twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 13, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review the finding that rabies virus infection alters but does not kill neurons, and provide an update on the novel coronavirus in the Middle East.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - I'm a Scientist - The Film
Kathy - Humorous units of measurement (Wikipedia)
Vincent - Open access must enable open use (Nature)
Listener Pick of the Week
Tarwin - Plague Inc.
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TWiV 214: This is your brain on polyomavirus twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Jan 07, 2013Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss how coagulation factor X binding to adenovirus activates the innate immune system, and a novel polyomavirus associated with brain tumors in raccoons.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Parasite of the Day
Kathy - Tour of International Space Station
Vincent - Earth as Art
Listener Pick of the Week
Robin - Angell on Big Pharma
Michael - Flu jokes
Jim - Database of Ted talks; Downloadable Ted Talks
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TWiV 213: Not bad for a hobby twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 30, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
In their final episode of the year, the TWiV team reviews twelve cool virology stories from 2012.
Twelve virology stories from 2012:
- H5N1 (TWiV 190, 182, 177, 173, 168)
- Polymorphisms that control susceptibility (TWiV 175, 180)
- New virus receptors (TWiV 166, 210)
- XMRV: Last nail in the coffin (TWiV special)
- Polio eradication troubles in Pakistan (NY Times one, two, three; virology blog)
- Biomedical research crisis (TWiV 208, 184, 189, 194)
- Polydnaviruses in parasitoid wasps (TWiV 179)
- Carolyn Coyne’s placental barrier story (TWiV 193)
- Touring NEIDL (TWiV 200)
- Epidemiology (TWiV 169, 178)
- A good year for virus hunting (173, 183, 195, 196, 198, 199, 204)
- Pox accordion (TWiV 198)
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Our Mr. Sun (IMDB entry) (wiki)
Alan - PubReader from NCBI announcement and instructions
Kathy - Popular Mechanics 110 picks for the next 110 years
Vincent - 366 days: Nature's 10
Listener Pick of the Week
Matt - The flu vaccine controversy
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TWiV Special: Ignorance with Stuart Firestein twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Dec 29, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Stuart Firestein
Vincent and Stuart discuss why ignorance - all of what we don't know, and even what we don't know we don't know - is the driving force of science.
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TWiV 212: Apocalypse TWiV 122112 212 twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Dec 24, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVerers answer listener email about genetically modified chickens, a hendra vaccine for horses, online education, curing color blindness, Roosevelt and polio, Th cells, and much more.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Overview
Alan - Notes towards the complete works of Shakespeare
Kathy - Correlation vs. Causation (#1, #2, #3)
Vincent - Periodically inspired
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark - Life of a Nature paper
Ricardo - Things don't go viral
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TWiV 211: Viruses r us twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 16, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV four discuss an mRNA-based influenza vaccine, and a phage tubulin that forms a filamentous array in the host cell that is needed for positioning viral DNA.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Ocean Global Shark Tracker
Alan - The Field Book Project
Kathy - How to manipulate an army of zombies
Vincent - Science sculpture
Listener Pick of the Week
Stephen - WEHI.TV
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TWiV 210: Bond, covalent bond twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 09, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team reviews identification of the cell receptor for hepatitis B and D viruses, and the cell enzyme that cleaves the genome-linked protein from picornaviral RNA.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Vendée Globe
Dickson - Earth at night
Alan - Trophée Jules Verne
Kathy - Science cookies
Vincent - Trilobite Glassworks
Listener Pick of the Week
Ken - Spanish flu pandemic model (teacher's guide)
Jim - Santa Cruz Science Communication Program (also see SHERP)
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TWiV 209: When the virus hits the fans twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 02, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy answer listener email about deformed wing virus, West Nile virus, FluMist, influenza in Canada, viruses and the tree of life, and more.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Dickson - Cassini web site and Mars reconnaissance orbiter
Alan - OneZoom Tree of Life
Kathy - Viral tumor suppressor structure (Cell)
Vincent - Spot the Station
Listener Pick of the Week
Ricardo - Once upon a time: The possible story of viruses
Jim - Encode, myIDP, Experiment Reproduction podcasts
Mark - MoMath
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TWiV 208: The biomedical research crisis with Jon Yewdell twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Nov 25, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Jon Yewdell
Vincent and is joined by special guest Jon Yewdell to discuss solutions for ending the current crisis in American biomedical research.
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TWiV 207: Silk sheets and viral infidelity twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Nov 19, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Matt Frieman, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Matt, and Kathy review the use of silk to stabilize antibiotics and a viral vaccine, and an impaired-fidelity vaccine against SARS coronavirus.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Matt - Virus-associated pyramids (slide #11)
Alan - Similarities of wave behavior (YouTube)
Kathy - The glass transition
Vincent - US cattle country in uproar at virus lab plans (BBC)
Listener Pick of the Week
Ricardo - Blackawton bees and Science is for everyone (TED)
Tony - Biophilia by Bjork
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TWiV #206 - Viral turducken twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Nov 11, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Dickson, and Kathy discuss how the innate immune response to viral infection influences the production of pluripotent stem cells, and the diverse mobilome of giant viruses.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Locust by Jeffery A. Lockwood
Dickson - Nikon Small World Contest 2012
Kathy - Influenza Encyclopedia
Vincent - Dengue fever sweeps India (NY Times)
Listener Pick of the Week
Allison - Fred Guterl on The Daily Show
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TWiV 205: Genetic conflict with Harmit Malik twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Thu, Oct 25, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Harmit Malik
Vincent is joined by special guest Harmit Malik to discuss his work on the evolution of genetic conflict.
Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Vincent - Candidates' answers to science questions
Listener Pick of the Week
Steve - Mural of Henrietta Lacks story (Microsoft Silverlight required)
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TWiV 204: M m m my corona twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 21, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Matt Frieman, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Matt and Kathy review isolation of a new coronavirus from two patients in the Middle East, and expansion of the enteric virome during simian AIDS.
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Links for this episode:
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Map of the Wind
Matt - Dark Side of the Earth; Insensitive guide to thriving in your Ph.D.; Gary Vanerchuck (YouTube)
Kathy - How much does a shadow weigh? and Slinky drop answer
Vincent - A Parasite's Parasites; All the cool kids are on arXiv
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Nissin - Jungle Jim (1948)
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TWiV 203 - Mark Challberg, a cold room kind of guy twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 14, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Mark Challberg
Vincent and Rich meet up with Mark Challberg to talk about his scientific career studying viral DNA replication, and his transition to an NIH Program Officer.
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Claudio - DIY lab equipment (Ars Technica) and DIY Bio
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TWiV 202 - Huskers go viral twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 07, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, T. Jack Morris, James Van Etten, and Charles Wood
Vincent travels to the University of Nebraska to meet with members of the Nebraska Center for Virology and discuss their work on algal viruses, plant viruses, HIV and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus.
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Charles - Rhabdovirus associated with hemorrhagic fever (PLoS Path)
Vincent - Bacteriophage graffiti (jpg)
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Bob - Remembering Penny Pinneo
Janet - Penn and Teller on vaccinations (YouTube)
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TWiV 201: Rabid about viruses twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 30, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy answer reader email about rabies, xenotransplantation, poliovirus, Ph.D. programs, mosquitoes, and much more.
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Alan - Wallace Online
Rich - World Rabies Day
Kathy - Yo-yos in space
Dickson - The Art in Science
Vincent - The Podcasters Studio
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Wink - DuckDuckGo
Josh - Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
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TWiV 200: Threading the NEIDL twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 23, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Elke Mühlberger, Paul Duprex, and Ron Corley
Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 200th episode of TWiV by visiting the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center, where they meet with Elke, Paul, and Ron to talk about building and working in a BSL4 facility.
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Alan - Dance your Ph.D.
Rich - Angel of Death by Gareth Williams
Vincent - Why herpesvirus is good for you (Virgin lab)
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Luis - VBORNET maps
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TWiV 200: Threading the NEIDL (video version) twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 23, 2012
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Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 200th episode of TWiV by visiting the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center, where they meet with Elke, Paul, and Ron to talk about building and working in a BSL4 facility.
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Alan - Dance your Ph.D.
Rich - Angel of Death by Gareth Williams
Vincent - Why herpesvirus is good for you (Virgin lab)
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Luis - VBORNET maps
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TWiV Special: A paradigm for pathogen de-discovery twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Tue, Sep 18, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and W. Ian Lipkin
Vincent and Ian review a multicenter blinded analysis which finds no association between chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and XMRV or polytropic murine leukemia virus.
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TWiV 199: Of mice, ticks, and pigs twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 16, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy discuss recent outbreaks of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Yosemite National Park and novel swine-origin influenza in the US midwest, and isolation of the Heartland virus from two patients in Missouri with severe febrile illness.
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Alan - Insane in the Chromatophores (Vimeo)
Rich - Golden Goose Awards
Kathy - Euler's Disk (YouTube)
Vincent - Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
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Adam - Leigh Van Valen
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TWiV 198: Pox has got a squeeze-box, seals are gonna sneeze all night twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 02, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review fatal avian influenza virus in harbor seals, and poxvirus deployment of genomic accordions to counter antiviral defenses.
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Alan - Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine
Rich - Khan Academy
Kathy - Vi Hart
Vincent - Tweet Keeper
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Diane - The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Stephen - Amateur Micrography
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TWiV 197: Cloning HeLa cells with Professor Philip I Marcus twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Aug 26, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Philip I. Marcus
Vincent travels to the University of Connecticut to meet up with Professor Philip I. Marcus to discuss his development of the single cell cloning technique in the early 1950s.
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TWiV 196: An arena for snakes twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Aug 19, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, Mark Stenglein, and Joseph DeRisi
The TWiVites meet with Mark Stenglein and Joseph DeRisi to discuss their discovery of a novel arenavirus in snakes with inclusion body disease.
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Mark - The Slow Mo Guys (Fly eats fly)
Dickson - I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor by Shel Silverstein
Alan - MMWR: First 30 years online
Rich - Giant python in Everglades and California Academy of Sciences
Kathy - Darwin finch genome sequence
Vincent - Microbiology at Mt. Sinai
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Renato - Security Now podcast
Robin - The Weather
Chad - Rare protozoan from sludge (ScienceDaily)
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TWiV 195: They did it in the hot tub twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Aug 12, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Ken Stedman
The complete TWiV team meets with Ken Stedman to discuss the discovery in Boiling Spring Lake of a DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus.
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Ken - The Edge of Life trailer and Facebook page
Dickson - The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte
Alan - SEMs of insects and spiders via Steve Gschmeissner
Rich - Curiosity Has Landed (Wiki mission summary)
Vincent - Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror (YouTube)
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Lance - The Vaccine Confidence Project and Immune response video (YouTube)
Anat - Beautiful Science
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TWiV 194: Five postdocs in North America twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Aug 06, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Matthew Daugherty, Jondavid deJong, Helen Lazear, Stefan Oliver, and Cara Pager.
Vincent returns to Madison, Wisconsin and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers.
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TWiV 193: Live at ASV in Madison twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 29, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Carolyn Coyne, and Sara Sawyer
Vincent, Rich, Carolyn, and Sara recorded TWiV at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Madison, where they discussed genetic conflict between viral and human genes, and how the placenta protects the fetus against viral infection.
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Rich - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Vincent - Biochemistry Revealed
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Matlock - The BioDigital Human
Matt - Scientists create jellyfish from rat cells
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TWiV 192: Viral tertulia twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 22, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about bioinformatics, insects, influenza, laboratory classes, commensalism, reproducibility of data, and more.
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Alan - The Microbial Olympics (supplementary information)
Rich - PharmaJet needle free injection system
Vincent - Microbes and Evolution by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy (paperback and Kindle)
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Varun - Agile Gene by Matt Ridley
Sizun - Plague Inc
Ricardo - TED-ED
Kristopher - Ed Yong on Econtalk
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TWiV 191: When two rights make a wrong twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 15, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Nissin Moussatche
Nissin joins the TWiV crew to discuss an outbreak of lethal disease among Cambodian children, and recombination among attenuated herpesvirus vaccines leading to pathogenic viruses.
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Alan - H5N1 genetic changes inventory
Rich - Mythbusters: Diet Coke and Mentos (YouTube channel)
Nissin - The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams, and Tired of War by Tereza Batista
Vincent - FAQ: The 'snake bite' portion of your thesis defense
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Gopal - All's not fair in science and publishing
Luis - The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin (Nature review)
Sven - Visualizing information flow in science
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TWiV 190: The second ferret of the Apocalypse twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 01, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review selection of influenza H5N1 viruses that can transmit among ferrets by aerosol.
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Kathy - Wind map
Vincent - The A-Z of Epidemiology (YouTube)
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Kristoffer - How to read a paper
Neva - Electricity from viruses
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TWiV 189: Five postdocs in Glasgow twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 24, 2012Vincent returns to the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers.
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TWiV 188 - Haggis, single malt, and viruses twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Fri, Jun 15, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Massimo Palmarini, John MacLauchlan, Emma Thomson, and Hande Harmanci.
Vincent travels to Scotland to meet with members of the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow to discuss their work on hepatitis C virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.
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Vincent - Microbe art
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Judi - Cell Imaging (Mac App Store)
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TWiV 187: The mummy twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Jun 11, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Vincent and Rich discuss recovery of a hepatitis B viral genome from a 16th century Korean mummy, and personal omics profiling of an individual over a 14 month period.
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Rich - The Checklist by Atul Gawande
Vincent - Artologica
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David - Cracking your genetic code (Nova)
Josh - The nuclearization of biology is a threat to health and security (pdf)
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TWiV 186: From Buda to stump grinding twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 03, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The TWiV chiefs tackle reader email about how to pronounce Buda, Texas, grinding tree stumps, and much more.
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Alan - World Wide Lightning Location Network
Rich - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Vincent - The Ocelloid
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lafrenchfille - whatshouldwecallgradschool
Neva - Antiviral drugs by Carl Zimmer
Sergio - APSnet
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TWiV 185: Dead parrots and live Wildcats twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 27, 2012Vincent visits with members of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Northwestern University School of Medicine to discuss their work on herpesviruses and parainfluenzaviruses.
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Sarah - Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
Andrew - The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
Vincent - Gates Grand Challenges in Global Health awards
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Ed - Pursuit of Light (YouTube); MRC Biomedical Picture of the Day; It's okay to be smart
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TWiV 184: Reforming science twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 20, 2012Vincent, Rich, and Alan consider how to reform the scientific enterprise to make it more effective and robust.
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Alan - PubMed PubReMiner
Rich - Intentional Blindness (YouTube)
Vincent - Vaccine infographic
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Ken - Wattpad
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TWiV 183: Bats out of hell twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 13, 2012Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.
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Connor - Microbiology Twitter journal club
Alan - Where the Wild Types Are (YouTube)
Rich - May 14th: Smallpox vaccination day
Dickson - Searching for pore-fection (Science)
Vincent - RRResearch
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Stephen - Every Major's Terrible (xkcd)
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TWiV 182: One flu over the ferrets' nest twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 06, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Michael J. Imperiale
Michael joins the TWiV crew to discuss the recently published influenza H5N1 transmission paper and how it was viewed by the NSABB.
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Alan - 18th century shipping mapped
Rich - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Vincent - Air France 447 (Telegraph)
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Josh - Vaccines course by Dr. Paul Offit
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TWiV 181: ORFan poxviruses and nIRFing prions twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 29, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Rich, and Kathy discuss Cotia virus, a new poxvirus, Orf virus infections associated with handling goats and lamb, and the innate immune response to prions.
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Kathy - Astronomy Picture of the Day (especially this and this)
Rich - Tom Lehrer Element Song (YouTube)
Vincent - Albert B. Sabin Archives
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Mark - Netter's Infectious Diseases by Elaine C. Jong and Dennis L. Stevens
Richard - Germs, Genes & Civilization by David P. Clark
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TWiV 180: Throwing IFIT at flu and holding a miR to HCV twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 22, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review association of an interferon-induced protein with severe influenza, and stabilization of HCV RNA by a microRNA.
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Alan - Micro Empire (Vimeo)
Rich - Census of marine life
Vincent - Pinterest
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Mark - The Secret Life of Plankton (YouTube)
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TWiV 179: Was ist ein virus? twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 15, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Gertrud Radu
Gertrud joins the TWiVoners to review how dengue virus infection of mosquitoes alters blood feeding behavior, and gene therapy as practiced by parasitoid wasps.
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Gertrud - Bat on a plane! (MMWR)
Alan - The Rings of Earth (YouTube)
Rich - Giant Magellan telescope
Vincent - Hepatitis C new drug pipeline
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Ricardo - Evolution: The Natural History of Animal Skeletons
Peter - Self-assembly line (YouTube)
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TWiV 178: T-Sharp on how tequila mosquito twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 08, 2012The TWiValians meet up with Tyler Sharp for a discussion on the Epidemic Intelligence Service and controlling dengue.
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Tyler - Co-infection with dengue and Leptospira (Emerging Inf Dis)
Alan - The Winged Scourge (YouTube)
Rich - Deepsea Challenge
Vincent - Why did a US advisory board reverse its stance? (Ed Yong)
Listener Pick of the Week
Sasha - Microfluidic Future
Adam - The Conversation
Jim - ENIAC Programmers Project
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TWiV 177: Live in Dublin twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 01, 2012A discussion of avian influenza H5N1 transmission experiments in ferrets and novel bunyaviruses at the 2012 Spring Conference of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, Ireland.
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Connor - Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2012
Vincent - Thoughts on academic scientists giving media interviews
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TWiV 176: Ave, magi virorum! twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Mar 24, 2012Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about MS, CFS, EBV, B cells, virii, influenza B, scientific papers, and more.
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Rich - Alan Alda's Flame Challenge (NY Times article, Science editorial)
Alan - ChronoZoom
Vincent - Academic Publishing is Broken by Michael P. Taylor
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Joel - Fighting a dengue outbreak by Tyler M. Sharp (parts one and two)
Sven-Urban - Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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TWiV 175: More than one way to skin a virus twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 18, 2012Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss herpes simplex encephalitis in children with innate immune deficiency, and the local response to microneedle-based influenza skin immunization.
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Matt - Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Alan - Digital Imagine Institute
Vincent - iPad apps Goodreader and Notability
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Jane -Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton
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TWiV 174: Dog runs and mooing miRs twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 11, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich consider whether pet dogs might transmit human noroviruses, and an RNA virus microRNA that might be involved in oncogenesis.
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Rich - NOAA Buoy Data
Alan - Autism's False Prophets by Paul Offit
Vincent - Media Mining
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Mark - How the West fueled the AIDS epidemic
Henry - Regenesis
Rick - Biopunk: DIY scientists hack the software of life by Marcus Wohlsen
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TWiV 173: Going to bat for flu research twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 04, 2012The TWiVites discuss seroevidence for human infection with avian influenza H5N1, and the discovery of a new influenza virus in Guatemalan bats.
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Ashlee – AskScience (Reddit)
Michael - HealthMap (iPhone and Android app)
Rich – H5N1 research discussion at ASMBiodefense
Alan – El Yunque National Forest
Vincent – The Journal of Global Health
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Judi – NSF visualization challenge
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TWiV 172: Two can be as bad as one twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Feb 27, 2012Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler
Vincent and Kathy discuss how a virus may cause disease distant from its replication site, then review a day in the life of a senior microbiology professor.
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TWiVspecial2.mp3 twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 19, 2012
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TWiV 171: One is the loneliest number twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 19, 2012Matt joins the TWiVarians to review virus production in single cells and single virion genomics.
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TWiV 170: From variolous effluvia to VLPs twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 12, 2012Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner's paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more.
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TWiV 169: Epidemiology causes conclusions (p<0.05) twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 05, 2012Michael and the TWiV team review epidemiology basics, including fatality ratios.
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TWiV 168: Super CalTech prophylaxis and ferret runny noses twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 29, 2012Welkin joins the TWiV team for a discussion of HIV prophlaxis using vectored antibodies, and the influenza H5N1 virus studies in ferrets that were not redacted.
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TWiV 167: It starts with a cough twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 22, 2012The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.
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TWiV 166: Breaking and entering twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 15, 2012Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses.
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TWiV 165: The email zone twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 08, 2012Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more.
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TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 01, 2012Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.
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TWiV 163: What Rous wrought twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 25, 2011Vincent, 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.
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TWiV 162: Transcription twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 18, 2011Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template.
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TWiV #161 - Concerto in B twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 11, 2011Vincent, 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.
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TWiV #160 - Moore tumor viruses twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 04, 2011The 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.
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TWiV #159 - Flu gets the REDD light twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, 27,
Nov 20:04:00 2011, +0000Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses.
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TWiV #158 - Wolverines go viral twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Nov 20, 2011Vincent 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.
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TWiV #157 - Better innate than never twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Nov 14, 2011A large TWiV panel remembers Ralph Steinman, and considers a new innate sensor of retroviral capsids.
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TWiV #156 - Armed and targeted killer meta-analysis twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Nov 05, 2011Vincent, 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.
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TWiV #155 - XXII Brazilian National Virology Meeting twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 30, 2011Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss their work on bocavirus, infectious bronchitis virus, begamoviruses, and circoviruses at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil.
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TWiV #154 - Symbiotic safecrackers twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Oct 22, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich are very enthusiastic about two studies that show how gut bacteria help viral invaders.
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TWiV #153 - Rabid reindeer and protective prions twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 16, 2011Vincent, 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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TWiV #152 - Viromes in the effluence of society twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 09, 2011Vincent, 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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TWiV #151 - Dear TWiVers twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 02, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich review questions and comments from TWiV listeners.
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TWiV #150 - Contaminated twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Sep 24, 2011Vincent, 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.
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TWiV 148: Retreating into Harvard virology (Video) twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Thu, Sep 22, 2011Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Philip Kranzusch, David Knipe, and Priscilla Yang
Vincent, Philip, David, and Priscilla recorded this episode before an audience at the Harvard Virology Program Annual Retreat, where they discussed negative strand RNA viruses, a vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 2, lipidomics of viral infection, and science communication.
The Keynote Speaker at the Harvard Virology retreat is usually an individual, but this year the honor went to TWiV as an example of science communication to the public. Many thanks to members of the Virology Program for a terrific retreat!
Artwork by Silvia Piccinotti, G4
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TWiV #149 - Live at ICAAC in the Windy City twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Sep 17, 2011Vincent, 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).
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TWiV #148 - Retreating into Harvard virology twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 11, 2011Vincent, Philip, David, and Priscilla recorded this episode before an audience at the Harvard Virology Program Annual Retreat, where they discussed negative strand RNA viruses, a vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 2, lipidomics of viral infection, and science communication.
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TWiV #147 - Debugging dengue twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Sep 04, 2011The complete TWiV gang discusses the use of Wolbachia to control mosquito-borne infections.
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TWiV #146 - Draco's potion twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Aug 28, 2
011 +0000 20:21:56,Vincent, Rich, and Abbie review a broad spectrum antiviral protein, and selective pressure applied by a failed HIV-1 vaccine.
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TWiV #145 - The inVinceable TWiV twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Tue, Aug 16, 2011Alan and Rich tackle the discovery of bacteriophages, and treating influenza by calming the cytokine storm.
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TWiV #144 - HIV gets the (zinc) finger twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 31, 2011Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss live blogging of scientific meetings, the current outbreak of Hendra virus is Australia, and using zinc finger nucleases to make HIV-resistant CD4 cells.
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TWiV #143 - Live at ASV in Minneapolis twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 24, 2011Vincent, Rich, Julie and Stacey recorded TWiV at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Minneapolis, where they discussed the role of neutralizing antibodies in protection against HIV-1 infection, and astroviruses, agents of gastroenteritis.
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TWiV #142 - Viral oinkotherapy twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 17, 2011Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss a method for identifying viruses of individual environmental bacteria, and the using a picornavirus for oncotherapy.
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TWiV #141 - Mickey gets HCV twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 10, 2011Matt Evans joins Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich to deconstruct a mouse model for hepatitis C virus infection.
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TWiV #140 - An aptitude for microbicides twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jul 03, 2011Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Judy Lieberman review the use of CD4 aptamer-siRNA chimeras to inhibit HIV transmission.
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TWiV #139 - Honey, I shrunk the virus twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 26, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Dickson discuss the reduction in genome size of Mimivirus upon passage in amoeba, and analysis of the microbiome of honeybees.
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TWiV #138 - RISCy business with Raul Andino twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 19, 2011Vincent meets up with Raul Andino in San Francisco to discuss the RNAi-based antiviral defense system of Drosophila, the fruit fly, and how it is antagonized by viruses.
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TWiV #137 - Look what the dog dragged in twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jun 12, 2011The TWiV team speaks with Amit Kapoor and Ian Lipkin about how they discovered canine hepacivirus, and its implications for the origin and evolution of hepatitis C virus.
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TWiV #136 - Exit XMRV twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Jun 06, 2011Retrovirologist Stephen Goff joins Vincent, Rich, and Alan for a discussion of recent papers on the retrovirus XMRV and its association with chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer.
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TWiV #135 - Live in the Big Easy twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 29, 2011Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncogenesis by human papillomaviruses, the amazing collection of bacteriophages on the planet, and the evolution of genetic conflict between virus and host.
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TWiV #134 - Meet Ralph, your cruise director twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 22, 2011Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson review noroviruses with Stephanie Karst, PhD.
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TWiV #133 - The HIV hideout twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 15, 2011Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson discuss the cellular reservoir of HIV-1 with Kathleen Collins, MD, PhD.
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TWiV #132 - Virology 911 twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, May 09, 2011Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson speak with Alfred Sacchetti, MD, Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, about viral infections encountered in the emergency room.
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TWiV #131 - A REOstat for cancer twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, May 01, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Dickson chat with Brad Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech, about using reovirus to treat cancer.
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TWiV #130 - Rhino tracking, wrestling pox, and HCV in the crosshairs twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 24, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss growth in culture of newly identified rhinovirus C, vaccinia transmission among wrestlers and martial artists, and results of phase III clinical trial of boceprevir, a new inhibitor of hepatitis C virus replication.
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TWiV #129 - We've got mail twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 17, 2011Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human endogenous retroviruses, multiplicity of infection, and how to make a poxvirus.
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TWiV #128 - Virologists in the mist twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 10, 2011Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas.
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TWiV #127 - Viruses are no joke twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Apr 03, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich explore a novel bunyavirus isolated in China, the recent polio outbreak in Republic of the Congo, and cell to cell transmission of a retrovirus by biofilm-like extracellular assemblies.
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TWiV #126 - Wart's up, doc? twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 27, 2011Virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.
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TWiV #125 - TWiV infects FiB twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 20, 2011This Week in Virology and Futures in Biotech join together in a science mashup to talk about a virophage at the origin of DNA transposons, and unintended spread of a recombinant retrovirus.
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TWiV #124 - Viruses that make you better twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 13, 2011Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Grant discuss a tanapoxvirus protein that inhibits tumor necrosis factor, purging tumors with myxoma virus, and destruction of the last known stocks of smallpox virus.
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TWiV #123 - Contaminated prostates, absolute truth, and bleached worms twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Mar 06, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes.
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TWiV #122 - More fun than a monkey full of viruses twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 27, 2011The complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5.
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TWiV 121 video twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Feb 21, 2011
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TWiV #121 - Huskies go viral twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 20, 2011A conversation about careers in virology, systems biology, innate immunity, and antiviral research recorded at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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TWiV #120 - Ed Niles, a Km Vmax kind of guy twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 13, 2011Vincent, Rich, and Ed discuss the transition from academic scientist to government work, the general program of drug and vaccine development in the biodefense world and at BARDA, and career opportunities for scientists in government.
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TWiV #119 - Science and journalism with David Tuller twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Feb 06, 2011Vincent and journalist David Tuller converse about the state of science reporting by the press.
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TWiV #118 - The virus always rings twice twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 30, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about vaccinia virus, fungal viruses, synthetic viruses, influenza vaccine, HeLa cells, multiplicity of infection, and much more.
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TWiV #117 - The Panic Virus with Seth Mnookin twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 23, 2011Vincent and Rich converse with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, about vaccines, autism, thimerosal, and a contagion of human unreason run wild.
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TWiV #116 - Cocaine, colonies, and chickens twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 16, 2011Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review an adenovirus-based vaccine strategy against drug addiction, a field trial of RNAi to prevent Israeli acute paralysis virus infection in honeybees, and suppression of avian influenza transmission in transgenic chickens.
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TWiV #115 - Color me infected twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 09, 2011Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication inAedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont.
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Tue, Jan 04, 2011
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TWiV #114 - Ten out of '10 twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Jan 02, 2011Vincent, Alan, and Rich revisit ten compelling virology stories of 2010.
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TWiV #113 - Alan Rein on XMRV twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 26, 2010Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the retrovirus XMRV with retrovirologist Alan Rein of the National Cancer Institute.
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Thu, Dec 23, 2010
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TWiV #112 - Creating a killer poxvirus twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 19, 2010Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the making of a virulent poxvirus by insertion of the gene encoding IL-4, and severe 2009 H1N1 influenza due to pathogenic immune complexes.
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Tue, Dec 14, 2010
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Tue, Dec 14, 2010
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Mon, Dec 13, 2010
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TWiV #111 - Live at Florida Gulf Coast University twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Dec 13, 2010The TWiV crew meets with members of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District at Florida Gulf Coast University to discuss dengue in Florida and how to control it.
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TWiV #110 - CSI virology twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Dec 05, 2010Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss bacteria that can utilize arsenic in place of phosphorus, the passing of Frank Fenner, polio outbreak in The Congo, solving criminal cases of HIV transmission, and classifying viruses by capsid structure.
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TWiV #109 - Virologia en México twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Nov 29, 2010Vincent visits Mexico City and speaks with Rosa Maria del Angel and Ana Lorena Gutiérrez about virology in Mexico, and their work on dengue and caliciviruses.
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TWiV #108 - Barking up the right Tre twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Nov 21, 2010Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Saul review the evolution of HIV-1 specific recombinases, and down-regulation of a host microRNA by a viral noncoding RNA.
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TWiV #107 - Warning - this virus contains email twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Nov 15, 2010Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about poliovirus, social media, dengue, influenza, evolution, gel filtration, and much more.
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TWiV #106 - Making viral DNA II twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sat, Nov 06, 2010Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a second installment of their discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.
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Fri, Nov 05, 2010
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TWiV #105 - Finches score again twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 31, 2010Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review eradication of rinderpest, endogenous hepatitis B virus in the zebra finch genome, and identification of the cell receptor for an extinct retrovirus.
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TWiV #104 - The colony-collapse blues twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Mon, Oct 25, 2010The entire TWiV family reviews the latest ideas about colony collapse disorder of honeybees, and resurgence of monkeypox in Africa.
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TWiV #103 - Shots with LJ Tan twiv@twiv.tv (Vincent Racaniello)Author: Vincent Racaniello
Sun, Oct 17, 2010Vincent and Alan discuss influenza vaccines with LJ Tan of the American Medical Association.
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Wed, Oct 13, 2010
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Tue, Oct 12, 2010
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