Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Michael Imperiale, Adam Lauring, and Akira Ono

Vincent visits the University of Michigan where he and Kathy speak with Michael, Adam, and Akira about polyomaviruses, virus evolution, and virus assembly, on the occasion of naming the department of Microbiology & Immunology a Milestones in Microbiology site.




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Weekly Science Picks 1:27:30

Kathy – Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Lego #1 and #2 and Ada Lovelace Day
VincentMiSciWriters

Listener Picks

JunioXKCD marks the spot
KariSpoonflower

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Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Blossom Damania

Vincent speaks with Blossom about her laboratory’s research on Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, including how it transforms cells, the switch between lytic and latent replication, and its interaction with the innate immune system of the host.

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Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Ileana Cristea

Vincent meets up with Ileana at Princeton University to talk about how her laboratory integrates molecular virology, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, and bioinformatics to unravel the interplay between virus and host.

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Mistletoe_infested_treeHosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Jens Kuhn

Jens joins the TWiVomics to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of viral taxonomy, including its history and evolution, how viruses are ordered, and why T. rex was classified without having a living isolate.

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Weekly Science Picks 56:30, 2:07:15

Alan – The Jefferson Grid
Rich – Summer of Science
Kathy – Bill Nye dances The Click
Dickson – The Martian
Jens – How I Killed Pluto, Life in Our Phage World, Why the Seahorse Tail is Square
Vincent – Does the public trust science? (videos, summaries)

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Butter kidsHosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Stephanie Neal

Stephanie joins the super professors to discuss the gut virome of children with serious malnutrition, caterpillar genes acquired from parasitic wasps, and the effect of adding chemokines to a simian immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:18:35, 1:45:30

Alan – Plates from Hooke’s Micrographia
Rich – The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Kathy – Spore evaporation-driven engines (video and article)
Dickson – Color variations of Pluto and Lunar total eclipse
StephanieThe science of moldy cheese by Carl Zimmer
Vincent – But Why?

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Reed – The Bench Warmers Podcast

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baby viromeHosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team considers the effect of a Leishmaniavirus on the efficacy of drug treatment, and the human fecal virome and microbiome in twins during early infancy.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:42:20

Alan – Vexed Muddler store
RichIvanpah Solar Power Facility
Kathy – The real Kermit
Dickson – Animal Portraits
Vincent – Adventures of the Regatjes, Vaccines by Susan Nasif

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Jacob – Great Wall of China keeps rabbits out

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TWiV 354Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The esteemed doctors of TWiV review a new giant virus recovered from the Siberian permafrost, why influenza virus gain of function experiments are valuable, and feline immunodeficiency virus.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:40:40

Alan – Experience Curiosity
RichPrimrose School
Kathy – Egg drop solutions
Dickson – Dragonflies by Pieter van Dokkum
Vincent – NASA guide to air-filtering houseplants

Listener Pick of the Week

Amir – Publons (Nature article)

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Dr. BrainloveHosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVniacs discuss twenty-eight years of poliovirus shedding by an immunodeficient patient, and packaging of the innate cytoplasmic signaling molecule cyclic GMP-AMP in virus particles.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:27:50

Alan – Miniature calendar
Kathy – Dr. Brainlove (prologue, v. 2.0,  IndieGoGo)
Dickson – The Ph.D. Movie
Vincent – Ghostery

Listener Pick of the Week

Ramon – Children die
ChrisASMLive at ICAAC/ICC

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Michele BanksHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Michele Banks

Vincent meets up with Michele Banks in Washington, DC to discuss her career as a creator of science-themed art.

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Genetic CodeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The Masters of the ScienTWIVic Universe discuss a novel poxvirus isolate from an immunosuppressed patient, H1N1 and the gain-of-function debate, and attenuation of dengue virus by recoding the genome.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:29:35

Alan – Genetic roulette
Rich
 – The Huntington
Kathy – Simulated vomiting machine (video)
DicksonLast Cassini Saturn flyby
Vincent – Decaying Still Life (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Ken – Cave meterology (Times, Nature)

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