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

Hosts: 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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Links for this episode

• Sara on TWiV #193
• Kartik on TWiV #314
• NPC1 and bat susceptibility to Ebolaviruses (eLife)
• Molecular spandrels and evolution (Nat Rev Gen)
• Letters read on TWiEVO 5

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Nels – Sundance Film Festival and Meru
Vincent – Quanta podcast (iTunes)
Sara – Isolation of Marburg viruses from fruit bats

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Straw colored bat

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

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