Kizzmekia Corbett joins TWiV to review her career and her work on respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, and coronaviruses and coronavirus vaccines, including her role in development and testing of a spike-encoding mRNA vaccine, and then we review the Nobel Prize for discovery of hepatitis C virus.
Michele writes: Hello all, I am a veterinarian in Montana and this is my second request for you to have a veterinary infectious disease or other veterinary expert on the podcast. Mostly, it is because…
John writes: Hi TWiV Team, Thanks again for all that you are doing. I am really looking forward to this week’s discussion about Vitamin D with Dr. Griffin. Vitamin D is considered a marker of…
Tony Schountz joins TWiV to explain the work of his laboratory showing that deer mice can be infected with and transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how his colony of Jamaican fruit bats is being used to understand their response to virus infections.
Adrianna and Liem write: Dear TWiV team, We are researchers at the University of Melbourne studying antimicrobial resistance in hospital pathogens and have greatly enjoyed listening to you in the lab over the past few…
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, review of the phase I and II trials of the Russian prime-boost vaccine, a mouse model that recapitulates age-dependent severe disease, and listener questions.
Stephen writes: Dear TWiV Team: Like literally thousands before I would like to thank you all for the tireless work you do and publish. In the latest TWiV #665 an important topic was almost brought…
Aloke writes: Hi, Please comment on this article by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/how-does-the-coronavirus-behave-inside-a-patient Some sentences taken without any surrounding context: “… three questions deserve particular attention, because their answers could change the way we isolate,…
David Brenner joins TWiV to explain how far-UVC lights could provide protection from SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne viruses in public places, solutions to face mask fogging, transmission during airplane flights, and listener questions.
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, superspreading potential of SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong, structure of virion glycoprotein of a commmon cold coronavirus reveals changes driven by prolonged circulation in humans, and listener email.
The Hosts of TWiV
Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.
Rich Condit, Ph.D.
Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.
Alan Dove, Ph.D.
Daniel Griffin, M.D.,
Ph.D., CTropMed CTH
Angela Mingarelli, DVM
Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.