TWiV 176: Ave, magi virorum!

twiv emailHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about MS, CFS, EBV, B cells, virii, influenza B, scientific papers, and more.

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Weekly Science Picks

Rich – Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge (NY Times article, Science editorial)
Alan – ChronoZoom
Vincent – Academic Publishing is Broken by Michael P. Taylor

Listener Pick of the Week

Joel – Fighting a dengue outbreak by Tyler M. Sharp (parts one and two)
Sven-Urban – Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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TWiV 175: More than one way to skin a virus

microneedleHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matt Frieman

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss herpes simplex encephalitis in children with innate immune deficiency, and the local response to microneedle-based influenza skin immunization.

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Matt – Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Alan – Digital Imagine Institute
Vincent – iPad apps Goodreader and Notability

Listener Pick of the Week

Jane –Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton

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TWiV 174: Dog runs and mooing miRs

bucket lab stickersHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich consider whether pet dogs might transmit human noroviruses, and an RNA virus microRNA that might be involved in oncogenesis.

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Rich – NOAA Buoy Data
Alan – Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit
Vincent – Media Mining

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark – How the West fueled the AIDS epidemic
Henry – Regenesis
Rick – Biopunk: DIY scientists hack the software of life by Marcus Wohlsen

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TWiV 173: Going to bat for flu research

Sturnira liliumHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Michael Walsh, and Ashlee Bennett

The TWiVites discuss seroevidence for human infection with avian influenza H5N1, and the discovery of a new influenza virus in Guatemalan bats.

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Ashlee – AskScience (Reddit)
Michael – HealthMap (iPhone and Android app)
Rich – H5N1 research discussion at ASMBiodefense
Alan – El Yunque National Forest
Vincent – The Journal of Global Health

Listener Pick of the Week

Judi – NSF visualization challenge

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TWiV 172: Two can be as bad as one

tetramer stainingHosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler

Vincent and Kathy discuss how a virus may cause disease distant from its replication site, then review a day in the life of a senior microbiology professor.

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Kathy – Science prize for inquiry-based instruction (Alberts editorial, second winner)
Vincent – The long and winding road to a Ph.D.

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Greg – Correlation

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TWiV 171: One is the loneliest number

single virion genomicsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Matt Frieman

Matt joins the TWiVarians to review virus production in single cells and single virion genomics.

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Matt – H5N1 research discussion
Dickson – The Golden Wand of Medicine by Walter J. Friedlander
Alan – Imagine Science Films
Vincent – E. coli: Good, Bad, and Deadly

Listener Pick of the Week

Daniel – The scale of the Universe
Stefan – A Legacy of Achievement

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TWiV 170: From variolous effluvia to VLPs

cow-pockHosts: Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier

Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss Edward Jenner’s paper on cowpox vaccine, then move 200 years later to modern vaccines against norovirus, influenza H5N1, and more.

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Dickson – High-speed photography of falling drop
Rich – Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism (NAP)
Alan – Lab Report videos (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Jim – The Blind Spot

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TWiV 169: Epidemiology causes conclusions (p less than 0.01)

Snow cholera mapHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Michael Walsh

Michael and the TWiV team review epidemiology basics, including fatality ratios.

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Michael – Love my epi
Dickson – Bacteria array detects arsenic
Rich – Dunning-Kruger effect
Alan – Environmental Economics
Vincent – Don’t censor influenza research

Listener Pick of the Week

Simon – The Great Mortality by John Kelly

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TWiV 168: Super CalTech prophylaxis and ferret runny noses

adeno-associated virusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Welkin Johnson

Welkin joins the TWiV team for a discussion of HIV prophylaxis using vectored antibodies, and the influenza H5N1 virus studies in ferrets that were not redacted.

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Welkin – Virtual PI (Nature)
Dickson – Drain the Ocean
Rich – Nova: To the Moon
Alan – Robert Falcon Scott on Twitter and the Terra Nova expedition
Vincent – Hello, Mr. Chips (I, Cringely)

Listener Pick of the Week

Charlotte – And the Band Played On

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TWiV 167: It starts with a cough

Lipkin in ContagionHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.

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Dickson – Guinea Pig Doctors by Jon Franklin
Rich – Learn to appreciate technology and Everythings amazing and nobodys happy (YouTube)
Alan – JD Hooker slide collection
Vincent – iTunes U app and iBooks Author

Listener Pick of the Week

Judi – Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan

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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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