TWiEVO 24: Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods

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

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Marco Vignuzzi

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• Vignuzzi Laboratory
• Redirecting evolution of RNA viruses in sequence space (Nat Micro)
• Is quasispecies concept relevant to RNA viruses? (J Virol)

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