Today, Dr. Sam Díaz-Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as a Faculty Member of the Genome Center at the University of California Davis, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how their group, and a growing community of researchers, investigates the social lives of viruses: the many ways that viruses interact and the ways that interactions shape infections and viral evolution.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Sam Díaz-Muñoz
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Links for this episode
- An article by Carl Zimmer on the social lives of viruses.’
- An overview of RNA viruses in general.
- An overview of cystoviruses.
- An overview of the use of cystoviruses in the study of evolution.
- A relevant article: “Open Questions in the Social Lives of Viruses,” Leeks et al. 2023:
- Another relevant article: “Sociovirology: Conflict, Cooperation, and Communication among Viruses,” Díaz-Muñoz et al. 2017:
- The website for the Social Lives of Viruses Meetings
- An article from Jesse Bloom’s lab showing the variation in single cell infection outcomes (Figure 4 is one of Dr. Díaz-Muñoz’s favorites from any paper).
- The faculty website for Dr. Lin Chao, who was very influential in Dr. Díaz-Muñoz’s background and promoted the study of evolution in microbes.
- The website for Dr. Paul Turner, who was very influential in Dr. Díaz-Muñoz’s background and promoted the study of evolution in microbes.
- The website for Dr. Rich Lenski, who was very influential in Dr. Díaz-Muñoz’s background and promoted the study of evolution in microbes.
- A CDC article about “shift” versus “drift” in influenza.
- A video by Dr. Díaz-Muñoz from 2020 about viruses.
- Dr. Díaz-Muñoz’s faculty website.
- Dr. Díaz-Muñoz’s laboratory group website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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