TWiV 939: From lizards to Lassa with Tom Monath
Tom Monath joins TWiV to discuss his wide-ranging career that includes medicine, field work and vaccine development while working for the US government, the US military, and multiple biotechnology companies. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: Tom Monath Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Research assistant position at FDA (pdf) Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) Fever by John Fuller (Amazon) Crozet BioPharma Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Jazz – Small...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 25, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 847: On Dasher, on Dancer, on Corona and Lassa
For the final episode of 2021, TWiV reviews an experimental infectious attenuated Lassa fever vaccine based on a codon-deoptimized glycoprotein gene, and SARS-CoV-2 infection of free-ranging white-tailed deer. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Codon-deoptimized Lassa fever vaccine (mBio) Attenuation of dengue virus by codon deoptimization (TWiV 351) Codon deoptimization of poliovirus and RS virus (TWiV 740) Codon deoptimization of DNA viruses (TWiV 362 lett...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 2, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 625: Fred Murphy, virologist for all seasons
Vincent and Rich visit Fred Murphy to hear about his wide-ranging career in virology, spanning many institutions, involving dangerous viruses like rabies virus, Ebolavirus (he took that famous iconic image), Marburg virus, Lassa virus, coronaviruses, and later writing a history of the field. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit Guest: Frederick A. Murphy Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Link for this episode Foundations of Virology/Virus images (UTMB) Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv (Source: This Week i...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 11, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 548: Mice, shrews, and caterpillars
Vincent travels to the European Congress of Virology in Rotterdam and with local co-host Marion Koopmans speak with Martin Beer, Stephan Gunther, and Vera Ross about their careers and their work on Lassa virus, Borna virus, and insect viruses. Hosts: Vincent Racanielloand Marion Koopmans Guests: Martin Beer, Stephan Gunther, and Vera Ros Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ECV2019 Partnerships not parachutes (TWiV 413) Fatal Borna disease virus infection in transplant recipients (NEJM) Sequencing of 2018 Lassa virus outbreak (Science) Zombie caterpil...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 19, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 538: An Iowa caucus of viruses
TWiV travels to the University of Iowa to speak with Wendy Maury and Stanley Perlman about their research on Ebolavirus entry and coronavirus pathogenesis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guests: Wendy Mauryand Stanley Perlman Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode TIM-1 is receptorfor Ebolaviruses (Proc Natl Acad Sci) TIM-1 is receptor for Lassa virus (J Virol) SARS coronavirus causes neuronal death (J Virol) T cells and IL-10 in viral demyelination (J Neuroimmunol) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jen...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 10, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 486: Sean Whelan on being haploid
Sean Whelan returns to TWiV to speak with Vincent about using haploid cell lines to identify genes encoding cell receptors for viruses, including Ebolavirus, Lassa virus, and more. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Sean Whelan Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick C1 (Nature) Lassa virus entry requires a trigger-induced receptor switch (Science) Infectious Entry Pathway Mediated by the Human ERV K Envelope Protein (J Virol) Novel Broad-Spectrum Virus Entry Inhibitor (J Virol) Mechanism of membrane fusion induced by VSV G protein (PNAS) NRP2...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 25, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 339: Herpes and the sashimi plot
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Tre TWiV amici present three snippets and a side of sashimi: how herpesvirus inhibits host cell gene expression by disrupting transcription termination.
Links for this episode
Searching for Steamer in the oceans
Lassa fever death in NJ (CDC and NYTimes)
Transgenic mouse model for MERS-CoV (J Virol)
First West Nile virus disease case in Texas
Herpesvirus disrupts host transcription termination (Nat Comm)
Sashimi plots
Broad benefits of measles virus immunization (TWiM #104)
Avian influenza outbreak (NPR)
The virome in health and disease (Immunity...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 31, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 295: A nonslip grippe and Lassa's LAMP
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The TWiVome discusses an miRNA based strategy to mitigate risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.
Links for this episode
miRNA strategy to minimize risk (Nat BioT)
NIH Office of Science Policy
NIH recombinant DNA guidelines
Second receptor for Lassa virus entry (Science)
Lassa fever (Wikipedia)
Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus (TWiV 9)
Letters read on TWiV 294
Weekly Science Picks
Alan - Nicky Bay...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 27, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
