TWiV 528: Our annual recapsidation
In the first episode for 2019, the TWiV team reviews the amazing virology stories of the past year. 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 TWiV World Tour 2018 t-shirt (Amazon) Cool virology from 2018 Viruses behind AD? TWiV 505, TWiV 519, clinical trial one and two Wolbachia-mosquito release halts dengue (TWiV 506); World Mosquito Program Evolutionary history of RNA...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 6, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 478: A pox on your horse
The TWiV team explains how infectious horsepox virus - likely the ancestor of smallpox vaccines - was recovered from chemically synthesized DNA fragments. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASV 2018: asv.org, asv2018.umd.edu Potential Zika virus related birth defects, USA (MMWR) Bordering on an outbreak (Tex Obs) Horsepox virus from synthesized DNA (PLoS One) Horsepox based smallpox vaccine (NEJM) Has horsepox become extinct? (Vet Rec) Evolutionary path of smallpox vaccines (Lancet Inf Dis) Equination (Vaccine) Imag...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 28, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 404: Not found
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich ConditFrom the twiVivants, follow up on FluMist and Zoster vaccines, Zika virus update, and isolation of a multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes. Become a patron of TWiV!Links for this episodeFluMist problem (FDA)DA Henderson obituary (NY Times)DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator (TWiV Special)Efficacy of VZV vaccine (Ther Adv Vaccines)Zika virus burden, Puerto Rico (JAMA)Zika virus in Miami Beach (STAT)Congenital brain anomalies and Zika virus (Radiology)Congenital Zika syndrome with arthrogryposis (BMJ)Multicomponent...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 28, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 251: Don't kiss the camel
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV crew reviews work on MERS-coronavirus, including serological studies in camels, production of an infectious DNA clone, and identification of an interferon antagonist.
Links for this episode:
Stephan Chron dies (NY Times)
Philip Marcus dies (NY Times)
Philip Marcus on TWiV #197
Ellen Fanning dies (news@Vanderbilt)
Donald Low dies (CBC News)
MERS timeline
MERS-CoV seroepidemiology (Eurosurveillance)
MERS-CoV neutralizing antibodies in came...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 20, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 183: Bats out of hell
Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.
Links for this episode:
NIH response to Osterholm letter (pdf)
Who's afraid of the big, bad bioterrorist?
Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses (Nature Comm)
TWiV on Facebook
Letters read on TWiV 183
Weekly Science Picks
Connor - Microbiology Twitter journal clubAlan - Where the Wild Types Are (YouTube)Rich - May 14th: Smallpox vaccination dayDickson - Searching for pore-fection (Science)Vincent - RRResearch
Listener Pick of the Week
Stephen - Every M...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 13, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
