TWiV 254: Ninety-nine macaques on the wall

mhc rulesHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy review clearance of simian immunodeficiency virus infection from macaques by immunization with SIV proteins encoded in a rhesus cytomegalovirus vector.

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Dickson – The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
 Kathy – A boy and his atom and Moving Atoms (YouTube)
Alan – It is pitch dark and Get Lamp (YouTube)
Vincent – Who’s afraid of peer review? (Science)

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Maren – Hello Maestro (episodes on YouTube)
Ayesha – Why you don’t f****** love science
Jon – A Capella Science (YouTube)

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TWiV 253: I don’t know anything about sorghum

Alan and DicksonHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

In this second consecutive all-email episode, the complete TWiV team reads questions and comments from listeners about systemic antiviral responses, wild type poliovirus in Israel, Turkish scientists, viral symbiotes, and much more.

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Dickson – HD slow motion montage (YouTube)
 Kathy – Damselflies and Eyewitness app
Alan – Space weather forecast (YouTube)
Rich – 1984 by George Orwell (Doublethink)
Vincent – PopSci comments off and Why so few women in science?

Listener Pick of the Week

Meika – Flip action roll (YouTube)
CN – Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Bernadeta – Higgs Boson wins Nobel Prize

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TWiV 252: Who read the last email?

glass poliovirusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team reads email from listeners about anti-vaccine activists, a career in microbiology, placentas, a virology textbook, the HeLa cell genome, norovirus, and much more.

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Dickson – A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
 Kathy – Noctilucent clouds and aurora over Scotland
Alan – Flu vaccination map
Rich – There’s a fly in my urinal
Vincent – Picornaviridae.com

Listener Pick of the Week

Peter – PDB-101
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TWiV 251: Don’t kiss the camel

kissing a camelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV crew reviews work on MERS-coronavirus, including serological studies in camels, production of an infectious DNA clone, and identification of an interferon antagonist.

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Dickson – Scharf Photo
 Kathy – Blaschka glass models (NY Times, Cornell)
Alan – Digital Public Library of America
Rich – Dengue virus life cycle animation
Vincent – Creative Live

Listener Pick of the Week

John – Last person to get smallpox (NPR)
Peter – SARS documentary (BBC)
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TWiV 250: Wookie viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Robert Garcea

Vincent and Robert recorded this episode at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, where they talked about polyomaviruses.



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Robert – The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin
 Vincent – Aliens chestburster behind the scenes

Listener Pick of the Week

Adam – Virology Fact of the Day
Christophe – dr Karl

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Live in Denver

TWiV 249: An inordinate fondness for viruses

Front loaderHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, Alan and Rich discuss an estimate of the number of different mammalian viruses on Earth.

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Alan – Extreme macrophotography
Dickson – Baloney detection kit
Rich – Mutant silkworms spin colored silk (original article)
 Vincent – FlightRadar24

Listener Pick of the Week

Jenn – Ebola by William Close
Jenn – Eleven Blue Men by Berton Roueche
Todd – Weatherspark and iMap.tv
Nissin –Profiles in Science

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TWiV 248: TWiP infects TWiV

paleovirologyHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich reveal how experiments with a malaria parasite lead to the introduction of a mammalian retrovirus into birds.

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Dickson – Google Sky
Rich – Vanishing of the Bees (see also Bee Apocalypse Now)
 Vincent – Not Exactly Rocket Science

Listener Pick of the Week

Saira – Reproducibility Initiative

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TWiV 247: Today’s weather in virology

Ian LipkinHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Special guest: Ian Lipkin

Ian joins Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy to describe how his laboratory is searching for the origin of MERS-coronavirus.

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Kathy – Rainbows explained (Frazz)
Alan – Challenge.gov
 Vincent – 23andme
Rich – Spot the station

Listener Pick of the Week

Frank – Pacifier cleaning practices and risk of allergy development (Pediatrics)

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TWiV 246: Pandora, pandemics, and privacy

Pandoras boxHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy discuss the huge Pandoravirus, virologists planning H7N9 gain of function experiments, and limited access to the HeLa cell genome sequence.

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Kathy – GeoGuesser
Alan – From one, many (YouTube)
 Vincent – Dave Bhella: The Wildy Award Talk (Microbeworld video)
Rich – 1981 primitive internet report (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

CN – How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

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TWiV 245: Writing Principles of Virology

Principles of VirologyHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: S. Jane Flint, Lynn Enquist, Glenn Rall, and Ann Skalka

The authors of the popular textbook Principles of Virology discuss how the book was conceived and written.

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The Hosts of TWiV

Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.


Brianne Barker, Ph.D.


Rich Condit, Ph.D.


Alan Dove, Ph.D.


Daniel Griffin, M.D.,
Ph.D., CTropMed CTH


Angela Mingarelli, DVM


Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.


Kathy Spindler, Ph.D.


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