TWiV 881: 50 ways to zap your virus
TWiV describes the identification of a monoclonal antibody that provides broad protection against a variety of hantaviruses, and development of an oral remdesivir-like antiviral that ameliorates viral disease in mice. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Monoclonal antibody provides broad hantavirus protection (Sci Transl Med) Prometheus Project (TWiV 578) Oral antiviral related to Remdesivir (Sci Transl Med) Letters read on TWiV 881 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Week...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 578: Prometheus project
Vincent speaks with members of Prometheus, a team of academic and industrial scientists assembled to develop antibody-based therapeutics against infections caused by tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and rodent-borne hantaviruses, for which no approved vaccines or specific drugs are available. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Kartik Chandran, Zachary Bornholdt, Steven Bradfute, John Dye, Matthias Forsell, Jason McLellan, Laura Walker, and Cecelia Vial. Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode NIH U19 grant mechanism $22 million Prometheus g...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 15, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 549: The church of protocadherin
Kartik and Rohit join the TWiV team to present their identification of protocadherin-1 as a cell receptor for New World hantaviruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guests: Kartik Chandran and Rohit Jandra Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Einstein goes viral (TWiV 314) Michael Rossmann, 88 (virology blog) Protocadherin-1 essential for New World hantavirus entry (Nature) Image credit Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! This episode is sponsored by the 2019 Chem/Bio Defense Science and Technology Conference. Are you ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 26, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 527: City mouse, country mouse
The TWiV team summarizes the discovery of Sin Nombre virus, and presents evidence that neurotropic flaviviruses can cause intestinal dysmotility syndromes after systemic infection of mice. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Please take the TWiV listener survey ASV 2019 Satellite Symposia Crowdfunding for EV-D68 research Outbreak (exhibit, TWiV 501) Four Corners hantavirus outbreak (Wikipedia) Death at the Corner (Atlantic) Hantavirus infection by US state (CD...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 30, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 322: Postcards from the edge of the membrane
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVodes answer listener email about hantaviruses, antivirals, H1N1 vaccine and narcolepsy, credibility of peer review, Bourbon virus, influenza vaccine, careers in virology, and much more.
Links for this episode
Bourbon virus (NY Times)
Thogotovirus (ViralZone)
Drug induced apoptosis and HIV infection (PLoS One)
Mumps cases and outbreaks (CDC)
Opossums as pets? (doc)
Cat found
Letters read on TWiV 322
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Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 1, 2015 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.
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Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 3, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 199: Of mice, ticks, and pigs
Hosts: 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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Hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite (ProMedMail)
Hantavirus in Yosemite&nb...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 16, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
