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TWiEVO 24: Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods

October 26, 2017
Tagged as: Coxsackievirus, evolution, influenza virus, quasispecies, sequence space, stop codon, Vignuzzi, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Marco Vignuzzi joins Nels and Vincent to discuss recent work from his laboratory on redirecting RNA virus evolution in sequence space.

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TWiEVO 14: TWi-light on the Wasatch Front

December 21, 2016
Tagged as: Borrelia burgdorferi, Croptococcus, D. coli, HIV fusioin inhibitor, Lyme disease, microbial pathogenesis, microbiome, mirror image biochemistry, viral, virology, virus, viruses

From the Microbial Pathogenesis Retreat of the University of Utah School of Medicine, held at the Utah Museum of Natural History, Nels and Vincent speak with faculty members about their work on bacteria, fungi, viruses, and mirror-image biochemistry.

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TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw

February 20, 2016
Tagged as: bat, Ebolavirus, filovirus, host-virus conflict, NPC1, positive selection, receptor, viral, virology, virus, virus entry, viruses

Sara and Kartik join Nels and Vincent to talk about how the filovirus receptor NPC1 regulates Ebolavirus susceptibility in bats.

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TWiEVO 2: Faster than a speeding virus

December 26, 2015
Tagged as: APOBEC, enzyme, evolution, HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, mutation, mutation rate, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Nels and Vincent talk about how a cellular enzyme contributes to the very high mutation rate of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

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TWiEVO 24: Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods

TWiEVO 14: TWi-light on the Wasatch Front

TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw

TWiEVO 2: Faster than a speeding virus

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