TWiV 432: Conjunction junction, what’s your function?

DNA glovesHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVites discuss Zika virus seroprevalence in wild monkeys, Zika virus mRNA vaccines, and a gamete fusion protein inherited from viruses.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:25:50

Alan – Raspberry pi
Kathy – The Worst F&#%ing Words Ever
Dickson – NASA images of climate change
Brianne – How herd immunity works
Vincent – Radioactive boars in Fukushima

Listener Pick

Margaret – DNA socks and gloves

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TWiV 431: Niemann-Pick of the weak

Kusama pumpkin NaoshimaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVirions reveal bacteriophage genes that control eukaryotic reproduction, and the biochemical basis for increased Ebolavirus glycoprotein activity during the recent outbreak.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:40:55

Rich – Germ Theory by Robert P. Gaynes
Alan – Student Scientist Partnerships
Kathy – Symbiartic
Dickson – PaleoBioDB Navigator
Vincent – Kusama Infinity Room

Listener Pick

Chaim – How to fight back against the backfire effect

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TWiV 430: The persistence of herpesvirus

persistence of herpesvirusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiX cabal discuss sexual transmission of Zika virus in mice, and how immune escape enables herpes simplex virus escape from latency.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:22:35

Rich – Vipassana Momma (Dravet Syndrome)
Kathy – Landlines Chrome Experiments
Dickson – Origami Revolution
Vincent – Hunched Over a Microscope

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TWiV 429: Zika Experimental Science Team

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Katie Antony, Tom Friedrich, Emma Mohr, and David O’Connor

Vincent meets with members of team ZEST at the University of Wisconsin Madison to discuss their macaque model for Zika virus pathogenesis.

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TWiV 428: Lyse globally, protect locally

Science is not a liberal conspiracyHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVsters explain how superspreader bacteriophages release intact DNA from infected cells, and the role of astrocytes in protecting the cerebellum from virus infection.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:29:45

Alan – Skulls Unlimited
Rich – Bernard Moss Reflection
Kathy – Why vaccines don’t cause autism
Dickson – Honomobo
Vincent – Trump vs FDA

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TWiV Special: Vincent Munster on MERS-coronavirus and Ebolavirus

Vincent Munster

NIAID’s Vincent Munster, Ph.D., during a MERS-CoV field study in Jordan, August 2013.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Vincent Munster

At the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, Vincent speaks with Vincent Munster about the work of his laboratory on MERS-coronavirus and Ebolaviruses.

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TWiV 427: It was a DURC and UV light

VSV gene orderHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVoids discuss the March for Science, the GOF moratorium, and a classic virology paper on mapping the gene order for vesicular stomatitis virus.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:24:50

Alan – Good Omen miniseries (book)
Kathy – How to cure earworms
Dickson – Exoplanets orbits
Vincent – Outbreak News Today

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Tom – The Smartest Protester

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TWiV 426: I’m Axl, and I’ll be your cervid today

Zika-Gas6-AxlHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The sages of TWiV explain how chronic wasting disease of cervids could be caused by spontaneous misfolding of prion protein, and the role of the membrane protein Axl in Zika virus entry into cells.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:26:55

Alan – Deerland by Al Cambronne
Kathy – You can’t unring a bell #1 and #2
Rich – Extra letters added to life’s genetic code (source) and The Doomsday Clock (wiki)
Vincent – Trump Science Advisors, National Parks Won’t Be Silenced

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Stefan – The Vital Question by Nick Lane
Kevin – Scientists March on Washington?
Dennis – Fractal Tree of Life

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TWiV 425: All picornaviruses, all the time

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

The TWiVaniellos discuss a thermostable poliovirus empty capsid vaccine, and two cell genes that act as a switch between entry and clearance of picornavirus infection.

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Weekly Science Picks 4:29:10

Alan – Medical lab whirligig
Dickson – Antarctica’s Colorful Underwater World
Kathy – Prince Rupert’s drops #1 and #2
Rich – Dylan’s 30th – Eric Clapton –Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right  (The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration)
Vincent – Saving climate data and Public Good and Public Funding of Science

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Suellen – For the anti-vaccine people

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TWiV 424: FLERVergnügen

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

Guest: Trudy Rey

Trudy joins the the TWiVlords to discuss new tests for detecting prions in the blood, and evidence showing that foamy retroviruses originated in the seas with their jawed vertebrate hosts at least 450 million years ago.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:31:20

Trudy – Artist Jenni Viljaniemi
Alan – Radio Garden
Dickson – World’s First Green Energy Boat
Kathy – mSphereDirect video and web
Rich – Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison
Vincent – Trump’s Vaccine Panel (NYTimes), Offit’s Response (Daily Beast), ASM Letter

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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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