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)
AlanDigital Public Library of America
RichDengue virus life cycle animation
VincentCreative Live

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John – Last person to get smallpox (NPR)
PeterSARS documentary (BBC)
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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
Christophedr Karl

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Live in Denver

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
JennEleven Blue Men by Berton Roueche
ToddWeatherspark and iMap.tv
NissinProfiles in Science

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paleovirologyHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich reveal how experiments with a malaria parasite lead to the introduction of a mammalian retrovirus into birds.

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Dickson – Google Sky
Rich –
Vanishing of the Bees (see also Bee Apocalypse Now)
Vincent
Not Exactly Rocket Science

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Saira – Reproducibility Initiative

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Ian LipkinHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Special guest: Ian Lipkin

Ian joins Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy to describe how his laboratory is searching for the origin of MERS-coronavirus.

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Kathy – Rainbows explained (Frazz)
Alan –
Challenge.gov
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23andme
RichSpot the station

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Frank – Pacifier cleaning practices and risk of allergy development (Pediatrics)

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Pandoras boxHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy discuss the huge Pandoravirus, virologists planning H7N9 gain of function experiments, and limited access to the HeLa cell genome sequence.

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Kathy – GeoGuesser
Alan –
From one, many (YouTube)
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– Dave Bhella: The Wildy Award Talk (Microbeworld video)
Rich – 1981 primitive internet report (YouTube)

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CN – How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

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Principles of VirologyHost: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: S. Jane Flint, Lynn Enquist, Glenn Rall, and Ann Skalka

The authors of the popular textbook Principles of Virology discuss how the book was conceived and written.

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AdenoCDHosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Guests: Dan Barouch and Jeff Teigler

This episode of TWiV was recorded before an audience at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where Vincent and Alan spoke with Dan and Jeff about AIDS vaccines.

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Jeff – Science in the News; How to succeed in science (part one and part two)
Alan
Nanostructure flowers
VincentScientific culture

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Basel – The sequester blues

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Rebecca Dutch and Christiane Wobus

On this episode of TWiV, which was recorded before a large enthusiastic audience at the annual meeting of the American Society for Virology, Vincent, Rich, and Kathy speak with Rebecca and Christiane about their work on metapneumoviruses and noroviruses.



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Kathy – Shuffling cards
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Dave Bhella – Electron cryomicroscopy
RichSeven-year postdoc

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Judi – Reading for science literacy

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ASV Penn State

tfr1 humanHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson DespommierAlan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team talks about how two different viruses shape the evolution of an essential housekeeping protein.

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Dickson – Mantid images
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No email? (phd comics)
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The turbid plaque
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– AAM Faq: West Nile Virus
RichScience is awesome

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Luis – Public Health Image Library
Stephen – Hopkins closes graduate science-writing program

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