TWiV 98: Murine musings, electric shirts, and rabid pathologists

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the finding of murine leukemia virus-related sequences in the blood of CFS patients and healthy donors, laboratory inventories for wild poliovirus containment, weaving high-performance viral batteries into fabric for the military, and a case of human rabies in Indiana.

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Alan – NCBI ROFL
Rich – The Great Bridge by David McCullough
Vincent – Dr. Rous’ Prize-Winning Chicken

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TWiV 97: California virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Peter Sarnow, and Bert Semler

During a trip to California, Vincent visited Peter Sarnow and Bert Semler and spoke with them about their work on internal ribosome entry, and the requirement for a cellular microRNA for hepatitis C virus replication.

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  • Eukaryotic mRNAs that might contain an IRES (PNAS)
  • Modulation of HCV RNA abundance by a liver-specific microRNA (Science)
  • Viral small RNAs (PLoS Pathogens)
  • Bridging IRES elements to the translation apparatus (Biochim Biophys Acta)
  • A nucleo-cytoplasmic SR protein functions in viral IRES mediated translation (EMBO J)
  • Nuclear vs cytoplasmic routes to IRES mediated translation (Trends in Microbiology)
  • Letter read on TWiV 97

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TWiV 96: Making viral DNA

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.



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Rich – Breast milk sugars give infants a protective coat (NY Times and PNAS article)
 Vincent – The Great American University by Jonathan R. Cole

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TWiV 95: Does a virus shift in the woods?

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich consider the end of the influenza H1N1 pandemic, dengue in Florida, vaccinia virus infection in Brazilian monkeys, and viruses in the faecal microbiota.

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Alan – Families Fighting Flu
Rich – Food, Inc.
Dickson –  Fuel
Vincent – MIT Open Courseware
Michael –  Waiting for Superman and Can Science Feed the World? (Nature)

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TWiV 94: XMRV with Dr. Ila Singh

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Ila Singh

Vincent, Alan, and Rich speak with Ila Singh about the new human retrovirus XMRV, and how her laboratory is studying its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Alan – The new Federal Register site (see also regulations.gov)
Rich – The Florida Museum of Nautural History Butterfly Rainforest
Vincent – JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments

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TWiV 93: Our infectious inbox

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about lab procedures, prokaryotes, endogenous retroviruses, the iPad and teaching, prions, mimivirus, splitting water with viruses, and the polio outbreak in Tajikistan.

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Alan – Southern Fried Science
Rich – Tree of Life web project
Vincent – Dickson Despommier at Big Think

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TWiV 92: Live at ASV in Bozeman

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Karla Kirkegaard, and Marilyn Roosinck

Vincent, Rich, Karla, and Marilyn recorded TWiV at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Bozeman, where they discussed plant viruses and how they make plants resistant to adverse conditions, and identification of dominant negative drug targets.

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Marilyn – Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers (Nature)
Rich – The Known Universe by the American Museum of Natural History
Vincent – The Red Queen by Matt Ridley (thanks, Jesper!)

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TWiV 91: You’re an ERVous wreck

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Welkin Johnson

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich and Welkin discuss the nature, origin, and evolution of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), and the recent finding of endogenous filovirus genomes in mammals.

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Welkin – Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Rich – How microbes define and defend us
Dickson – H1N1 virus lacks 1918 virus killer protein
Alan – The Xtal Set Society
Vincent – Antibodies and the quest for an AIDS vaccine

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TWiV 90: Guano happens

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Eric F. Donaldson

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Eric discuss identification of viruses in Northeastern American bats, vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with a military vaccinee, and identification of a new flavivirus from an Old World bat in Bangladesh.

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Eric – Year of Darwin by Sean Carroll
Rich – March of the Penguins
Alan – Standing-height desks
Vincent – DengueWatch (thanks Richard!)

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TWiV 89: Where do viruses vacation?

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season.

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Alan – Tree of Life graphic
Vincent – TEDx Oil Spill

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The Hosts of TWiV

Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.


Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.


Alan Dove, Ph.D.


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


Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.


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