TWiV 269: Herpesvirus stops a nuclear attack

proposal virusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team reviews evidence for sensing of herpesviral DNA in the nucleus by the cell protein IFI16.

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Kathy – Female conveners and speakers
Alan – Sandgrains
Rich – 2013 Lamborghini Aventador
Vincent – Happy Birthday Mac and 128K Mac teardown
Dickson – Farmdominion

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Peter – The Microscope and The Next Global Killer
Richard – Glass viruses

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TWiV 268: Transmission is inevitable

knit icosahedronHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Ashlee Bennett

Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity.

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Kathy – Jean-Luc Doumont (slides, communicating science, website, Scitable)
Alan – Wireless thermometer
Vincent – Rethinking the airline boarding pass

Listener Pick of the Week

Jessica – Knit icosahedron
Robert – Practical computing for biologists by Haddock and Dunn
Stephen – Fourteen years of US weather (YouTube)

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TWiV 267: Snow in the headlights

knit picornavirusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Kathy review a protease essential for influenza pathogenesis in mice, and directionality of rhinovirus RNA exit from the capsid.

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Kathy – Amazing maps
Alan – Florida to NJ in 156 seconds (YouTube)
Rich – Whiteout over Great Lakes from Space
Vincent – LORiOLA viral necklaces

Listener Pick of the Week

Carol – Knit picornavirus
Robert – RNA: Life’s Indispensible Molecule by James Darnell,
and Biochemical Pathways by Michal and Schomburg

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TWiV 266: A pathogenic vicious cycle

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss finding viruses in outer space, varying results obtained from personal genetic testing, and depletion of CD4 cells during HIV infection by pyroptosis.



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Kathy – 17 mundane things, mind blowing views
Alan – Snowovel
Vincent – Public’s views on human evolution

Listener Pick of the Week

Emily – Dengue pillow 

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TWiV 265: This year in virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

In their final episode of the year, the TWiV team reviews ten compelling virology stories from 2013.



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Kathy – Women in Science
Alan – Contagium
Rich – RC helicopter (demo)
Vincent – The athletic power of quadcopters

Listener Pick of the Week

Lindsay – Alcohol consumption and vaccines (Vaccine)
Johnye – The Singing Microbiologist

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TWiV 263: Game of clones

Game of clones bracketHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Ben tenOever

Ben joins the TWiV team to reveal the winner of his contest in which influenza viruses carrying different interferon-stimulated genes vie against one another in mice.

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Kathy – The Brain Scoop, esp. Where My Ladies At
Alan – Say ‘hi’ to a spaceship (YouTube)
Rich – Garmin BlueChart Mobile and Active Captain
Vincent – Journal boycott (one, two)
Dickson – Futurescape TV show

Listener Pick of the Week

Luis – Spillover by David Quammen
Ken – Gravity

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TWiV 262: Wrong form, right professor

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Ann Palmenberg

Vincent returns to the University of Wisconsin – Madison to speak with Ann Palmenberg about her career in virology.

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TWiV 261: Giants among viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and James Van Etten

Guests: Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie

Vincent meets up with Chantal and Jean-Michel at the first International Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany, to discuss their work on Mimivirus, Megavirus, and Pandoravirus.



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TWiV 260: Badgers go viral

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Tom Friedrich, Tony Goldberg, and David O’Connor

Vincent visits the University of Wisconsin, Madison and speaks with Tom, Tony, and David about their work on virus discovery at the AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory.



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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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