TWiV 288: ebircsnart esreveR
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The Twivsters discuss how reverse transcriptase encoded in the human genome might produce DNA copies of RNA viruses in infected cells.
Links for this episode
Should variola virus be destroyed? (poll at virology blog)
DNA complementary to non-retroviral RNA viruses (Sci Rep)
Integration of arenavirus DNA into cell genome (virology blog)
Infectious respiratory syncytial DNA (PNAS)
Tysabri and PML
JC and PML (J Imm Res)
Igor Koralnik laboratory
Jean-Luc Doumont (Kathy's pick, TWiV 2...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 8, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 240: Virology in Vermont
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Markus Thali and Jason Botten
Vincent travels to the University of Vermont to talk with Markus and Jason about their work on HIV, influenza virus, arenaviruses and hantaviruses.
Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv (Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition)
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 3, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 196: An arena for snakes
Hosts: 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.
Links for this episode:
Highly divergent arenaviruses in snakes (mBio)
Taryn's sick snake (NPR)
Assemblathon
Faculty position in virology, Columbia U.
Petridish.org
TWiV on Facebook
Letters read on TWiV 196
Weekly Science Picks
Mark - The Slow Mo Guys (Fly eats fly)Dickson - I'm being eaten b...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 19, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
