This Week in Virology

TWiV 505: Rosebola

August 5, 2018

The TWiV hosts review persistence of Ebola virus after the end of the Liberian outbreak, and the potential role of two herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.

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

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Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference 3:20
Trump picks science advisor (Scientist) 4:00
Hendra vaccine: no effect on horses racing (Aust Vet J) 12:05
Persistence of Ebola virus (Lancet Inf Dis) 14:36
New Ebolavirus outbreak (Telegraph) 42:21
Alzheimer’s disease and herpesviruses (Neuron) 45:24, 47:19
Herpesviruses, beta-amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease (Neuron) 1:16:26
Letters read on TWiV 505 1:28:18
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks 1:44:33

Alan – Impossible Burger
Rich – SpaceX Just Sent Algae to the ISS, Here’s How It’ll Power Deep Space Missions
Dickson – Art and Science Intersection (Art Science Museum)
Brianne – Why it is not a ‘failure’ to leave academia
Kathy – 2003 video history of nuclear explosions 1945 – 1998
Vincent – Revisionist History Episode 8 and Episode 9

Listener Pick

Mark – TWIV bingo (png)

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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TWiV 504: Flying foxes and barking pigs

July 29, 2018

The TWiVerinos discuss Nipah virus and the recent outbreak in India, and the first cast of polio in Papua New Guinea in 18 years.

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

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Weekly Science Picks 1:32:05

Alan – Glaciers of the Rockies aerial photos
Rich – SpaceX CRS-15 mission to the space station (wiki)
Dickson – Test of Einstein’s theory of relativity
Brianne – biorender
Vincent – True or False? with Michael Schmidt

Listener Pick

Jolene – Dogs cannot get autism

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TWiV 503: The greening of TWiV

July 22, 2018

Vincent, Rich and Kathy travel to ASV 2018 at the University of Maryland to speak with Svetlana Folimonova and Anne Simon about their work on viruses that infect plants.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Svetlana Folimonova and Anne Simon

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Simon laboratory 2:04, 6:24
Folimonova laboratory 2:38, 15:20
CTV superinfection exclusion (Virol) 21:45
3′-CITEs in viral genome (J Virol) 47:50
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TWiV 502: Texas road phage

July 15, 2018

The TWiV team travels to Texas A&M University, home of the Center for Phage Technology, where they speak with Ry Young and Jason Gill about their work on viruses that infect bacteria.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Jason Gill and Ry Young

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TWiV 501: Outbreak

July 8, 2018

Vincent visits the Smithsonian Institution and speaks with Sabrina Sholts, Jon Epstein, and Ed Niles about the exhibit Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Sabrina Sholts, Jon Epstein, and Ed Niles

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TWiV 500: Keep virology weird

July 1, 2018

The entire TWiV team visits The University of Texas in Austin to record episode #500 with guests Jinny Suh, Jason McLellan, and Jon Huibregtse.

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

Guests: Jinny Suh, Jason McLellan, and Jon Huibregtse

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A big list of science podcasts – 4:48
Immunize Texas – 9:15, 11:08
McClellan Lab – 40:01
Huibregtse Lab – 1:08:38
John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease – 1:57:51
Video of this episode (YouTube)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks – 1:49:58

Alan – The Airplane Cabin Microbiome
Rich – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) (wiki)
Dickson – The Big Five Mass Extinctions
Kathy – Virus scarves at Red Bubble phage-specific variety
Vincent – Science podcasts

Listener Pick

Maureen – 12 year old takes on Flint’s Water Crisis

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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TWiV 499: Good virologists go to Halifax

June 24, 2018

Vincent and Alan travel to the Canadian Society for Virology meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia to speak with Nathalie and Craig about their vision for the society, and with Kate and Ryan about their careers and their research.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Guests: Nathalie Grandvaux, Craig McCormick, Kate O’Brien, and Ryan Noyce

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TWiV 2018 World Tour
CSV 2018
To wheeze or not to wheeze (Lancet Respir Med)
Synthetic infectious horsepox (PLoS One)

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TWiV 498: Salivating at ASM Microbe

June 17, 2018

Vincent, Kathy and Rich travel to ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta where they speak with Stacy Horner and Ken Stapleford about their careers and their research.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Stacy Horner and Ken Stapleford

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TWiV 2018 World Tour
RNA modifications go viral (Plos Path)
N6-methyladenosine in flavivirus genomes (Cell Host Micr)
Chikungunya virus evolution (Cell Host Micr)

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TWiV 497: Europic 2018

June 10, 2018

At Europic 2018, a meeting on picornaviruses in the Netherlands, Vincent speaks with Sasha Gorbalenya, Jim Hogle, Ann Palmenberg and Frank van Kuppeveld about their careers and their research.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Sasha Gorbalenya, Jim Hogle, Ann Palmenberg, and Frank van Kuppeveld

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TWiV 496: Vaccines work, whether or not you believe in them

June 3, 2018

Vincent and Rich recorded this episode at Vaccines in the 21st Century, a meeting held at the University of California, Irvine, where they spoke with Stacy Schultz-Cherry, Douglas Diekema, and Andrew Noymer about vaccine facts and fiction.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guests: Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Douglas Diekema, and Andrew Noymer

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