TWiV 247: Today’s weather in virology

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
 Vincent – 23andme
Rich – Spot the station

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

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TWiV 246: Pandora, pandemics, and privacy

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)
 Vincent – Dave Bhella: The Wildy Award Talk (Microbeworld video)
Rich – 1981 primitive internet report (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

CN – How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

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TWiV 245: Writing Principles of Virology

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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TWiV 244: Back in the CVVR

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
Vincent – Scientific culture

Listener Pick of the Week

Basel – The sequester blues

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TWiV 243: Live from ASV at Penn State

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
 Vincent – Dave Bhella – Electron cryomicroscopy
Rich – Seven-year postdoc

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Judi – Reading for science literacy

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TWiV 242: I want my MMTV

tfr1 humanHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan 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
Kathy – No email? (phd comics)
Alan – The turbid plaque
 Vincent – AAM Faq: West Nile Virus
Rich – Science is awesome

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

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TWiV 241: The ferret looks ill

exosome miRNA transferHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Kathy review how human placental trophoblasts confer viral resistance via exosome-mediated delivery of microRNAs, and isolation of the first human influenza virus in 1933.

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Kathy – Bats use blood to reshape tongue
Alan – Science Studio
Vincent – Steel bacteriophage lamp
Rich – Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009 (pdf); By ribosome possessed

Listener Pick of the Week

Joe – Grand challenges in science education (Science)
Mark – Weather Underground

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TWiV 239: Filterable camels

smoking camelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Matt Frieman

Matt joins Vincent, Alan, and Rich to summarize what we know and what we do not know about the MERS coronavirus.

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Matt – The Kid Should See This
Alan – Cassini to photograph Earth
Vincent –Cockroaches! (YouTube)
Rich – Sydney Brenner (Web of Stories)

Listener Pick of the Week

Ebrahim – Virus Hunter by CJ Peters and Mark Olshaker

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TWiV 238: Lost in translation

translation initiationHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Rich and Kathy discuss mechanisms of protein synthesis and regulation in virus-infected cells.

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Kathy – Vaccine-preventable outbreaks
 Rich –  To Catch a Virus by John Booss and Marilyn J. August
Vincent – This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Listener Pick of the Week

Jon – Confessions of a converted lecturer by Eric Mazur
Peter – FameLab

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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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