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

February 20, 2016

straw colored batHosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Kartik Chandran and Sara Sawyer

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

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Studio TwiEVO

Maryska Kaczmarek (a first author on the ELife paper), Nick Meyerson (rock god and science god), and Sara Sawyer

 

Esther, Kartik, and Melinda

Esther Ndungo and Melinda Ng (co-first authors on eLife paper) and Kartik Chandran.

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2 comments on “TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw

  1. Brilliant episode title!! Cant wait to play it!!–h