TWiV 159: Flu gets the REDD light

ferretHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses.

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Rich – Livescribe Smartpen
Alan – Royal Society journal archive
 Vincent – Chronic fatigue syndrome and the CDC by Dave Tuller

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Judi – Top 7 in Microbiology

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TWiV 158: Wolverines go viral

poliovirus + CD155Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alice Telesnitsky, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent and Rich visit the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, and speak with Alice and Kathy about their work on HIV genome dimerization, and packaging and pathogenesis of mouse adenovirus.

Model of poliovirus bound to CD155 made by Stefan Taube.

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Alice – Banvard’s Folly by Paul S. Collins
Kathy – The world at seven billion
Rich – The Princess Bride
 Vincent – Center for the history of microbiology

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Tim – Dead Ends to Somewhere by Richard L. Ward
Don – Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science (TED)

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TWiV 157: Better innate than never

dendritic cellHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, Jeremy Luban, and Gabriel Victora

A large TWiV panel remembers Ralph Steinman, and considers a new innate sensor of retroviral capsids.

Photograph of a dendritic cell (green) interacting with T cells (cyan) near a blood vessel by Gabriel Victora.

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Dickson – Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Rich – Battlestar Galactica
Alan – Coleman LED quad lantern
Gabriel – A History of Immunology by Arthur M. Silverstein
Jeremy – Principles of Virology by Flint, Enquist, Racaniello, Skalka
Vincent – Principles of Molecular Virology by AJ Cann

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David – Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot (YouTube)

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TWiV 156: Armed and targeted killer meta-analysis

jx-594Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier

Vincent, Rich, and Dickson review a meta-analysis on influenza vaccine, a killer virus in fungi that selects against RNAi, and the use of armed and targeted poxviruses for oncolytic virotherapy.

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Rich – Google’s self-driving car (story one and two)
Dickson – Wild Russia and Wild China TV series
Vincent – Baculovirus molecular biology by George Rohrmann (free)

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Jim – Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive (TED)

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TWiV 155: XXII Brazilian National Virology Meeting

sbv_logoenv2011Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Grant McFadden, Eurico de Arruda Neto, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Francisco Murilo Zerbini, and Janice Reis Ciacci Zanella

Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss their work on bocavirus, infectious bronchitis virus, begomoviruses, and circoviruses at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Vincent – AAM Colloquium Program
Grant – The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

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Antonio – 2011 Nobel Laureates Lectures at Lindau

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TWiV 154: Symbiotic safecrackers

mmtvHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich are very enthusiastic about two studies that show how gut bacteria help viral invaders.

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Alan – SciWriteLabs
Vincent – Take as directed

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Tony – Introduction to AI online course

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TWiV 153: Rabid reindeer and protective prions

svalbardHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review an outbreak of rabies in arctic foxes and reindeer in Norway, and a prion that makes you go antiviral.

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Alan – Amoebas microscope drive 2011
Vincent – WolframAlpha
Rich – Genesis by Ramos David (YouTube)

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Bill –Virolution by Frank Ryan

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TWiV 152: Viromes in the effluence of society

shinolaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich cover the virome of raw sewage, and a baculovirus gene that causes caterpillars to climb to their doom.

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Alan – xkcd tribute to Steve Jobs
Vincent – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address (YouTube)
Rich – 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial (YouTube)

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David – Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

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TWiV 151: Dear TWiVers

viral mailHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review questions and comments from TWiV listeners.

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Alan – Aurora Australis from space
Vincent – Science360 Radio
Rich – Ghost Productions (demo and website)

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Sophie – Bacteria by Jonathan Coulton

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TWiV 150: Contaminated

pXMRVHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich meant to do an all-email episode, but first they review results of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, and partial retraction of the paper associating XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome.

With this episode TWiV is three years old.

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Dickson – The Tree of Life
Vincent – When do you fact-check article content with sources? (take as directed)
Rich – io9

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Luis – NIH videocasting and podcasting

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