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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TWiV 352: Science art with Michele Banks

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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TWiV 351: The dengue code

Genetic CodeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich 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)
Dickson – Last Cassini Saturn flyby
Vincent – Decaying Still Life (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Ken – Cave meterology (Times, Nature)

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TWiV 350: Viral gene therapy with Katherine High

Katherine HighHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Katherine A. High

Vincent speaks with Katherine High about her career and her work on using viral gene therapy to treat inherited disorders.

This episode is drawn from one of twenty-six video interviews with leading scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of virology, part of the new edition of the textbook Principles of Virology.

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TWiV 349: One ring to vaccinate them all

vsv plateHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan and Rich explain how to make a functional ribosome with tethered subunits, and review the results of a phase III VSV-vectored Ebolavirus vaccine trial in Guinea.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:40:35

Alan – Above and Beyond
Rich – DSCOVR (Dark moon side crossing Earth)
Vincent – Stuxnet virus (Wired, YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Konrad – Stated Clearly

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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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