TWiV 576: Big data in virology and public health

From the 22nd meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology in Copenhagen, Vincent speaks with Thea, Heli, Kim, Caroline and Irma about big data and its increasing use in virology diagnostics, epidemiology, and public health.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Thea Kølsen Fischer, Kim Benschop, Caroline Brown, Heli Harvala, and Irma Salimovic-Besic

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TWiV 575: Endless giant virus forms most beautiful

From the Fourth Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Germany, Vincent, Rich, and Nels speak with Assaf, Stephen, and Alexandra about their careers and their work on giant viruses that infect ocean hosts: Emiliana huxleyi, Aureococcus anophagefferans, and a choanoflagellate.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Nels Elde

Guests: Assaf Vardi, Stephen Wilhelm, and Alexandra Worden

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TWiV 574: How economics shapes science

From Georgia State, Vincent speaks with economics professor Paula Stephan about the ways science is supported in the US, how universities offload risks, the absence of risk-taking, and much more.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Paula Stephan

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TWiV 573: Inventing viruses

Bill Summers

William Summers joins the TWiV team to discuss some virology history, including the ever-changing concept of ‘virus’ and the contribution of phage research to the study of animal viruses.

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

Guest: William Summers

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Weekly Science Picks 1:34:36

Alan – Restoration of Western Flyer
Rich – Purification of phage T7 RNA polymerase
Dickson – The Galaxy is Not Flat
Bill – Efficacy of tetravalent dengue vaccine
Vincent – Blowout by Rachel Maddow

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TWiV 572: Your EV-D68th nervous breakdown

Enterovirus D68

Amy joins the TWiV team to review evidence that enterovirus D68 is an etiologic agent of childhood paralysis, and her finding that the ability of the virus to infect cells of the nervous system is not a recently acquired property.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Amy Rosenfeld

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Weekly Science Picks 1:39:49


Amy – Enterovirus biology and pathogenesis and Acute Flaccid Myelitis Association
Rich – Tesla
Dickson – Nikon Small World 2019 Photo Competition
Kathy – Term limits in academic leadership #1 and #2
Vincent – Coywolf: New hybrid carnivore

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Anonymous – Spill the Beans vaccinated shirts

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TWiV 571: Piwi koalas

The League of Extraordinary Virologists celebrate the eradication of wild poliovirus type 3, and consider the effectiveness of an influenza vaccine produced in insect cells, and how small RNAs are protecting the Koala germline from retroviral invasion.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Weekly Science Picks 1:29:29

Brianne – The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell
Alan – Pomological watercolors
Dickson – Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Kathy – DiversifyMicrobiology  DiversifyImmunology and Marmot becomes fox food
Vincent – Burnet A Life by Christopher Sexton

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Justin – Worm with three sexes
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TWiV 570: Aarhus viral

At Aarhus University in Denmark, Vincent speaks with Trine Mogensen, Søren Paludan, Ole Søgaard, and Madalina Carter-Timofte about their careers and their work on sensing herpesviral DNA, immunodeficiencies that predispose to severe viral infections, and the path to a cure for HIV/AIDS.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Trine Mogensen, Søren Paludan, Ole Søgaard, and Madalina Carter-Timofte

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TWiV 569: Smolt’in iron

Aedes aegypti

The TWiV pro-vaxxers reveal viruses that infect endangered wild salmon, and how iron in host serum modulates dengue virus acquisition by mosquitoes.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker

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Weekly Science Picks 1:21:14

Brianne – Retraction of new CCR5/lifespan study
Alan – Nomad Press illustrated science books, and illustrator Lex Cornell
Dickson – RARE: Creatures of the Photo Ark
Vincent – The Odyssey of Eradication by Thomas Abraham

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Justin – Mass spec pen
Mark – What really brought down the Boeing 737 Max?

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TWiV 568: Karolinska viral

In the second episode from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Vincent speaks with Jan Albert, Petter Brodin, and Anna Smed-Sörensen about their work on enterovirus D68, systems immunology, and human pulmonary viral infection and inflammation.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Jan Albert, Petter Brodin, and Anna Smed-Sörensen

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TWiV 567: Outbreaks and a breakout

The TWiV team covers outbreaks of eastern equine encephalitis virus in the US and poliovirus in the Philippines, and explain how a chemokine induced by HIV-1 infection helps release more virus particles from cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Weekly Science Picks 1:34:44

Brianne – History of infectious disease before/after vaccines
Alan – NIH Ham Radio Club
Rich – Renewable jet fuel from air
Dickson – Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor
Kathy – How professors spend their time
Vincent – Non-polio enterovirus surveillance network

Listener Picks

Alexey – Periodic Table Podcasts and Videos

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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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