TWiV 362: Gotta catch ’em all

TWiV 362Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

With their usual verve, the virus virtuosos illuminate a new method to identify all the viral nucleic acids in a sample, and regulation of viral gene expression by codon usage.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:39:20

Kathy – Adam Savage, Andy Weir and Chris Hadfield talk about The Martian
Alan – Project Apollo photo archive – and video
Rich – Watch A Bowling Ball And Feather Falling In A Vacuum
Dickson – California drought
Vincent – Does AAAS care about Ebola anymore?

Listener Picks

Anonymous – Lives saved by vaccination
Paul – Science articles: A guide
Judi – How a virus invades your body

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TWiV 361: Zombie viruses on the loose

Frederick NovyHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiVsters discuss Frederick Novy’s return from retirement to recover a lost rat virus, and evidence for persistence of Ebolavirus in semen.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:27:05

Alan – Sticky
Rich – Arthur C. Clarke predicts the Internet (so did Vannevar Bush)
Dickson – Nikon Small World Photomicrography winners
Vincent – Pat Schloss on microbiome initiative

Listener Picks

Awkward Skeptic – 16 year old wins Google prize for detecting Ebolavirus

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TWiV 360: From Southeastern Michigan

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
Vincent – MiSciWriters

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Junio – XKCD marks the spot
Kari – Spoonflower

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TWiV 359: A Blossom by any other name

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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TWiV 358: Virology and proteomics with Ileana Cristea

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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TWiV 357: Mistletoe on the Tree of Life

Mistletoe_infested_treeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich 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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TWiV 356: Got viruses?

Butter kidsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich 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
Stephanie – The science of moldy cheese by Carl Zimmer
Vincent – But Why?

Listener Pick of the Week

Reed – The Bench Warmers Podcast

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TWiV 355: Baby’s first virome

baby viromeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich 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
Rich – Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
Kathy – The real Kermit
Dickson – Animal Portraits
Vincent – Adventures of the Regatjes, Vaccines by Susan Nasif

Listener Pick of the Week

Jacob – Great Wall of China keeps rabbits out

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TWiV 354: The cat in the HAART

TWiV 354Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich 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
Rich – Primrose 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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TWiV 353: STING and the antiviral police

Dr. BrainloveHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan 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
Chris – ASMLive at ICAAC/ICC

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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.


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