TWiV 298: MV-NIS de myelo

measles virus oncotherapyHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV gang answers follow-up questions about the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, then discuss treatment of  disseminated multiple myeloma with oncolytic measles virus.

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Alan – WTF, Evolution?! by Mara Grunbaum
Rich – Cold Spring Harbor Oral History Collection
Kathy – Inside insides
Vincent – Going Viral (Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre)

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Kim – Nobel Prize Podcasts
Johnye – The Planet is Fine
Jennie – Counter-Zombie Dominance Plan (pdf)

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TWiV 297: Ebola! Don’t panic

Reston virusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVites present an all-ebolavirus episode, tackling virology, epidemiology, and approaches to prevention and cure that are in the pipeline.

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Alan – Historical perspective on Ebola (Tara C Smith)
Rich – Tell the negative committee to shut up (Fanuel Muindi)
Kathy – Art of Night (Vimeo)
Vincent – Is Ebola virus going to kill me? (John Skylar)

Listener Pick of the Week

Peter – Dr. Michael Saag interview by Dr. Virginia Campbell
David – PI Predictor (app, article, publication)

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TWiV 296: The real Batman, Linfa Wang

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Linfa Wang

Vincent visits the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia and speaks with Linfa about his work on bats and bat viruses.



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TWiV 295: A nonslip grippe and Lassa’s LAMP

Fever!Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiVome discusses an miRNA based strategy to mitigate risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.

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Alan – Nicky Bay macrophotography (Flickr)
Rich – FASEB Third annual BioArt competition
Vincent – Up Close podcast (vrr episode)
Dickson – Science fun (YouTube)

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Mark Martin – Average bacteriophage
Konrad – Scholarpedia

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TWiV 294: Smallpox and anthrax and flu, oh my!

CDC anthrax incidentHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiV team reviews the discovery of old vials of smallpox virus at NIH, anthrax and influenza mishaps at CDC, the baby who was not cured of HIV, Cambridge Working Group, and sacking of NSABB members.

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Alan – Optivisor
Rich – Noller lab ribosome movies
Vincent – Creepy dreadful wonderful parasites
Dickson – National Center for Science Education

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark – The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell
Basel – iBioEducation

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TWiV 293: Virology Down Under

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Melissa Churchill, Alex Khromykh, Gilda Tachedjian, and Paul Young

Vincent visits Melbourne, Australia and speaks with Melissa, Alex, Gilda, and Paul about their work on HIV infection of the central nervous system, West Nile virus, microbicides for HIV, and the Koala retrovirus.



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TWiV 292: Medimmune goes viral

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Wade Blair, Matt Dickson, Nicole Kallewaard-Lelay, and Ken Miller

Vincent visits Medimmune and speaks with Wade, Matt, Nicole, and Ken about why they work in industry and their daily roles in a biotechnology company.



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TWiV 291: Ft. Collins abuzz with virologists

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Clodagh O’Shea and Ron Fouchier

Vincent, Rich, and Kathy and their guests Clodagh and Ron recorded this episode at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society for Virology at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.



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Rich – No sexual transmission of HCV (Am J Gastro)
Vincent – Made with code (blog post)
Kathy – Beautiful math images (and 50 Visions of Mathematics)

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Jon – Advances in Life Sciences winners (YouTube)
Dave – Adam Ruben

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TWiV 290: Baylor goes viral

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd

Vincent meets up with Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd at Baylor College of Medicine to talk about their work on polyomaviruses and virus induced stress.



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TWiV 289: Vinny and the capsids

computer mailboxHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vinny and the capsids answer listener questions about the definition of life, state vaccination laws, the basic science funding problem, viral ecology, inactivation of viruses by pressure, and much more.

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Alan – The Science of Good Cooking 
Vincent – The Shooter Report (pdf)
Kathy – Daily overview
Dickson – Girl rising

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Johnye – Ri channel
Ricardo – Open spin microscope (Nikon gallery, plans)
Chris – The microbiome game

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The Hosts of TWiV

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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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