TWiV 258: Hedging our bats

coronavirusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Matt Frieman

Matt joins the TWiV team to discuss the discovery of a SARS-like coronavirus in bats that can infect human cells, and what is going on with MERS-coronavirus.

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Kathy – Optical illusion (YouTube)
Alan – Amboceptor
Matt – Reply all by Richie Frieman (audio sample)
Vincent – The microbiology of beer

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Cassie – NeatoShop
Peter – Synapse evolution with Seth Grant (BSP 101)

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TWiV 257: Caveat mTOR

mTOR pathwayHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team consider how the kinase mTOR modulates the antibody response to provide broad protection against influenza virus, and explore the problems with scientific research.

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Dickson – Tesla Motors supercharger
Kathy – FASEB contest: Stand out for science
Alan – Natural History Museum virtual tour
Rich – Mauna Kea heavens
Vincent – FAA expands use of electronics on planes

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Peter – Score and ignore (pdf)

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TWiV 256: How mice say nodavirus

siRNA, dicer, argonauteHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review two papers that present evidence for RNA interference as an antiviral immunity mechanism in mammals.

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Dickson – Wildlife Photographers of the Year 2013
 Kathy – John Holland’s Emerging Infectious Disease lecture (YouTube)
Alan – The worst part is not
Rich – The Universe in a Single Atom by Dalai Lama (Mind and Life Institute)
Vincent – The Truth about T. Rex by Brian Switek

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Stephen – International Institute for Species Exploration (Top 10 species choice)

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TWiV 255: Longhorns go viral

longhorns go viralHosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guests: Robert Krug and Christopher Sullivan

Vincent and Rich visit the University of Texas at Austin and meet up with Bob and Chris to talk about their work on influenza virus and microRNAs.

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Rich – Unraveling Bolero
Vincent – New botulinum toxin, DURC implications, and inconvenient truths

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TWiV 254: Ninety-nine macaques on the wall

mhc rulesHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy review clearance of simian immunodeficiency virus infection from macaques by immunization with SIV proteins encoded in a rhesus cytomegalovirus vector.

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Dickson – The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
 Kathy – A boy and his atom and Moving Atoms (YouTube)
Alan – It is pitch dark and Get Lamp (YouTube)
Vincent – Who’s afraid of peer review? (Science)

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Maren – Hello Maestro (episodes on YouTube)
Ayesha – Why you don’t f****** love science
Jon – A Capella Science (YouTube)

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TWiV 253: I don’t know anything about sorghum

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

In this second consecutive all-email episode, the complete TWiV team reads questions and comments from listeners about systemic antiviral responses, wild type poliovirus in Israel, Turkish scientists, viral symbiotes, and much more.

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Dickson – HD slow motion montage (YouTube)
 Kathy – Damselflies and Eyewitness app
Alan – Space weather forecast (YouTube)
Rich – 1984 by George Orwell (Doublethink)
Vincent – PopSci comments off and Why so few women in science?

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Meika – Flip action roll (YouTube)
CN – Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Bernadeta – Higgs Boson wins Nobel Prize

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TWiV 252: Who read the last email?

glass poliovirusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team reads email from listeners about anti-vaccine activists, a career in microbiology, placentas, a virology textbook, the HeLa cell genome, norovirus, and much more.

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Dickson – A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
 Kathy – Noctilucent clouds and aurora over Scotland
Alan – Flu vaccination map
Rich – There’s a fly in my urinal
Vincent – Picornaviridae.com

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Peter – PDB-101
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TWiV 251: Don’t kiss the camel

kissing a camelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV crew reviews work on MERS-coronavirus, including serological studies in camels, production of an infectious DNA clone, and identification of an interferon antagonist.

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Dickson – Scharf Photo
 Kathy – Blaschka glass models (NY Times, Cornell)
Alan – Digital Public Library of America
Rich – Dengue virus life cycle animation
Vincent – Creative Live

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John – Last person to get smallpox (NPR)
Peter – SARS documentary (BBC)
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TWiV 250: Wookie viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Robert Garcea

Vincent and Robert recorded this episode at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, where they talked about polyomaviruses.



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Robert – The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin
 Vincent – Aliens chestburster behind the scenes

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Adam – Virology Fact of the Day
Christophe – dr Karl

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Live in Denver

TWiV 249: An inordinate fondness for viruses

Front loaderHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, Alan and Rich discuss an estimate of the number of different mammalian viruses on Earth.

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Alan – Extreme macrophotography
Dickson – Baloney detection kit
Rich – Mutant silkworms spin colored silk (original article)
 Vincent – FlightRadar24

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Jenn – Ebola by William Close
Jenn – Eleven Blue Men by Berton Roueche
Todd – Weatherspark and iMap.tv
Nissin –Profiles in Science

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Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.


Alan Dove, Ph.D.


Daniel Griffin, M.D.,
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Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.


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