TWiV 398: Permission to be intuitive

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Sandy Weller

Vincent speaks with Sandy Weller about her career and her work on the mechanisms of synthesis, maturation, cleavage and packaging of viral DNA genomes.

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TWiV 397: Trial by Error

David TullerHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: David Tuller

Vincent speaks with David Tuller about flaws in the U.K’s $8 million PACE trial for chronic fatigue syndrome, and efforts to have the trial data released.

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TWiV 396: Influenza viruses with Peter Palese

Peter PaleseHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Peter Palese

Vincent speaks with Peter Palese about his illustrious career in virology, from early work on neuraminidases to universal influenza virus vaccines.

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TWiV 395: The cancer thief


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Stephen J. Russell

From ASV 2016 at Virginia Tech, Vincent, Rich and Kathy speak with Stephen Russell about his career and his work on oncolytic virotherapy – using viruses to treat cancers.

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Weekly Science Picks

Kathy – Can you explain your science in 30 seconds? and How Far Can We Go?
Rich – Small asteroid Earth’s companion
Vincent – The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Dylan – Microsculpture by Levon Biss (website)

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TWiV 394

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TWiV 394: Cards in a hand


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Guest: Erica Ollmann Saphire

Vincent and Alan speak with Erica about her career and her work on understanding the functions of proteins of Ebolaviruses, Marburg virus, and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, at ASM Microbe 2016 in Boston, MA.

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Alan – Slime Lapse
Vincent – Virus Watch

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Patricia – NECSS, People Behind the Science, The Life Scientific
Peter – Iron Lung on eBay

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TWiV 393: Lovers and livers

The first raceHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVerati revisit possible sexual transmission of Zika virus, and reveal how a cell protein that allows hepatitis C virus replication in cell culture enhances vitamin E mediated protection against lipid peroxidation.

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Also brought to you by ASV 2016 5040

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks 1:23:25

Alan – All About That Space
Rich – The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (SyFy or books)
Kathy – Five Pivotal Paragraphs in a Paper
Vincent – Agar Art Contest Winners

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Ted – Marshall Niremberg charts

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TWiV 392: Zika virus!


Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Michael Diamond, Michaela Gack, Laura Kramer, and Charles Rice

Four virologists discuss our current understanding of Zika virus biology, pathogenesis, transmission, and prevention, in this special live episode recorded at the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, DC.

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TWiV 391: Whiter reefs, fresh breath


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Guests: David Pride and Forest Rohwer

If you have always wanted to know what coral reefs and the human oral cavity have in common, listen as guests David Pride and Forest Rohwer talk about their work on the microbiomes and viromes of these two environments, and you’ll also understand why mucus is cool.

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Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Vax Pack Hero
Rich – Helicopter autorotation
Vincent – Life in Our Phage World by Forest Rohwer, Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, Nao Hisakawa

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Matt – Experiment.com

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TWiV 390: Building a better mosquito trap

Project Premonition trapsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Ethan Jackson and Jonathan Carlson

Project Premonition, a Microsoft Research project that uses drones to capture mosquitoes and analyze them for pathogens, preprint servers, and three mouse models for Zika virus induced birth defects are the topics of this episode hosted by the TWiumvirate and theirs guests Ethan and Jonathan.

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Also brought to you by ASV 2016 1:56:00

Weekly Science Picks 1:57:25

Dickson – Germany nearly reached 100% renewable power
Alan – Vertical City documentary and Lumino City game
Rich – Errol Morris: ‘Demon in the Freezer’
Kathy – Entropic Time YouTube by A Capella Science (watch “the making of”)
Vincent – Agar Art contest finalists

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Jennie – SciFi reading (scroll down)

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TWiV 389: Alphabet hepatitis with Stan Lemon

Stan LemonHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Stan Lemon

Vincent speaks with Stan Lemon about his career in virology, from early work on Epstein Barr virus, through making essential discoveries about hepatitis A virus, hepatitis C virus, and rhinoviruses.

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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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