TWiV travels to Brisbane, Australia for the Options XII for the control of influenza conference, and meets up with Stephanie Gras and Jenna Guthmiller to talk about their careers and their research.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Steph Langel
Guests: Stephanie Gras and Jenna Guthmiller
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Links for this episode
- Goldilocks zone of influenza immunity (J Inf Dis) 17:56
- Broadly neutralizing HA antibodies (Nature) 14:15
- T cell epitopes needed for influenza vaccines (Clin Transl Immunol) 27:18, 43:10
- T cell epitopes conserved in emerging H5N1 viruses (Clin Transl Immunol) 27:18
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Only about 30 mins in but itching to comment on something Alan said towards the beginning around governments. :p
First would be that none of us can really tell our reps what to do. In the end they are independent people with the idea they try to represent the views of their constituents. So you can influence and try to convince them via correspondence and talking but they’ll still vote how they want.
Second is the view that somehow they represent the majority of their constituents. With the First Past the Post system as used in the US the winner does not need an absolute majority. For example if a position had three candidates then a candidate could win with as little as a third of the vote and that doesn’t even include people that don’t vote. Couple it with gerrymanded districts and it stops being a truly representative system.
For disclosure I’m a citizen and resident of NZ and we got rid of most of our FPP system over a decade ago and it just survived a binding national referendum.
*gets back into the talk* ^_^
This comment is regarding Hans’ comment from Melbourne Australia. You were confused why he said that “we have four seasons”. I used to live in Brisbane, and we really only had about 2 seasons. The summers were HOT, and the winters were mild with lots of rain. The trees looked the same year round. Melbourne has a more temperate climate, with trees that shed their leaves (something I sorely missed while living down under, since fall is my favorite season!).
So officially, there are four seasons in Australia, but in terms of weather it is only two? Or are there officially only two seasons? Are there four seasons in tropical areas? Or two?
Officially four seasons, but in terms of weather only two. Not sure about tropical areas (Brisbane is sub-tropical).