Vincent and Rich travel to Galveston National Laboratory to speak with Jim LeDuc, Tom Ksiazek, and Bob Tesch about their long careers as virus hunters.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Guests: Jim LeDuc, Tom Ksiazek, and Bob Tesh
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TWiV provides updates on the new coronavirus causing respiratory disease in China, the current influenza season, and the epidemic of African swine fever, including determination of the three-dimensional structure of the virus particle.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Rich – Mayo Clinic – Ken Burns; Patient Care and Health Information
Dickson – Australia Fires; Insect ecology; Smoke and aerosols
Kathy – runcible
Vincent – Without a Vaccine, These Are Your Odds
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For the first TWiV of 2020 we reveal that microbiome depletion with antibiotics alters the immune response to influenza vaccine, and how successive blood meals facilitate virus dissemination in mosquitoes and transmission potential.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Brianne – Retrovirus cookie cutter! (and Phage, Adenovirus, Rabies virus, and Antibody
Alan – “Yah! Yah! Yah!” by Jack London, and the true story it’s based on
Dickson – Why whales are big but not bigger
Kathy – Dual Axis Illusion
Vincent – The Fall of the Faculty by Benjamin Ginsberg
Suellen – Patient Zero podcast
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From the University of Texas at Austin, Vincent and Rich speak with Chris Sullivan about his work on miRNAs encoded in the genomes of polyomaviruses and papillomaviruses, and how an RNA triphosphatase restricts hepatitis C virus replication.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Guest: Chris Sullivan
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Vincent speaks with virologists at the University of Nevada at Reno about their careers and their work on herpesviruses, arboviruses, and the development of diagnostics for infectious diseases.
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Dave AuCoin, Cyprian Rossetto, Claudia Rückert, and Subhash Verma
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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.
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Vincent speaks with Félix Rey about his career and his work on solving structures of a variety of viruses and the insights learned about viral membrane fusion and antibody-mediated neutralization.
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Félix A. Rey
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From the 22nd meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology in Copenhagen, Vincent speaks with Thea, Heli, Kim, Caroline and Irma about big data and its increasing use in virology diagnostics, epidemiology, and public health.
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Thea Kølsen Fischer, Kim Benschop, Caroline Brown, Heli Harvala, and Irma Salimovic-Besic
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From the Fourth Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Germany, Vincent, Rich, and Nels speak with Assaf, Stephen, and Alexandra about their careers and their work on giant viruses that infect ocean hosts: Emiliana huxleyi, Aureococcus anophagefferans, and a choanoflagellate.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Nels Elde
Guests: Assaf Vardi, Stephen Wilhelm, and Alexandra Worden
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From Georgia State, Vincent speaks with economics professor Paula Stephan about the ways science is supported in the US, how universities offload risks, the absence of risk-taking, and much more.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Paula Stephan
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