TWiV 191: When two rights make a wrong

infectious laryngotracheitisHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Nissin Moussatche

Nissin joins the TWiV crew to discuss an outbreak of lethal disease among Cambodian children, and recombination among attenuated herpesvirus vaccines leading to pathogenic viruses.

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Alan – H5N1 genetic changes inventory
Rich – Mythbusters: Diet Coke and Mentos (YouTube channel)
Nissin – The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams, and Tereza Batista, Tired of War by Jorge Amado
 Vincent – FAQ: The ‘snake bite’ portion of your thesis defense

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Gopal – All’s not fair in science and publishing
Luis – The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin (Nature review)
Sven – Visualizing information flow in science

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TWiV 190: The second ferret of the Apocalypse

ferretHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review selection of influenza H5N1 viruses that can transmit among ferrets by aerosol.

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Kathy – Wind map
 Vincent – The A-Z of Epidemiology (YouTube)

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Kristoffer – How to read a paper
Neva – Electricity from viruses

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TWiV 189: Five postdocs in Glasgow

hbv architectureHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vanessa Cowton, Mary Holton, Mark Robinson, Swetha Vijayakrishnan, and Gavin Wilkie

Vincent returns to the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers.

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TWiV 188: Haggis, single malt, and viruses

Centre for Virus Research GlasgowHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Massimo Palmarini, John MacLauchlan, Emma Thomson, and Hande Harmanci.

Vincent travels to Scotland to meet with members of the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow to discuss their work on hepatitis C virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.

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Vincent – Microbe art

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Judi – Cell Imaging (Mac App Store)

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TWiV 187: The mummy

Beautiful But Deadly 4 by Michele BanksHosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Vincent and Rich discuss recovery of a hepatitis B viral genome from a 16th century Korean mummy, and personal omics profiling of an individual over a 14 month period.

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Rich – The Checklist by Atul Gawande
 Vincent – Artologica

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David – Cracking your genetic code (Nova)
Josh – The nuclearization of biology is a threat to health and security (pdf)

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TWiV 186: From Buda to stump grinding

stump grinder

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiV chiefs tackle reader email about how to pronounce Buda, Texas, grinding tree stumps, and much more.

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Alan – World Wide Lightning Location Network
Rich – Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
 Vincent – The Ocelloid

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lafrenchfille – whatshouldwecallgradschool
Neva – Antiviral drugs by Carl Zimmer
Sergio – APSnet

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TWiV 185: Dead parrots and live Wildcats

plaque fortHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Sarah Connolly, Andrew Karaba, Robert Lamb, and Greg Smith

Vincent visits with members of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Northwestern University School of Medicine to discuss their work on herpesviruses and parainfluenzaviruses.

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Sarah – Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
Andrew – The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
 Vincent – Gates Grand Challenges in Global Health awards

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Ed – Pursuit of Light (YouTube); MRC Biomedical Picture of the Day; It’s okay to be smart

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TWiV 184: Reforming science

adenoCD virusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

Vincent, Rich, and Alan consider how to reform the scientific enterprise to make it more effective and robust.

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Alan – PubMed PubReMiner
Rich – Intentional Blindness (YouTube)
 Vincent – Vaccine infographic

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Ken – Wattpad

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TWiV 183: Bats out of hell

paramyxoviridaeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Connor Bamford

Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

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Connor – Microbiology Twitter journal club
Alan – Where the Wild Types Are (YouTube)
Rich – May 14th: Smallpox vaccination day
Dickson – Searching for pore-fection (Science)
Vincent – RRResearch

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Stephen – Every Major’s Terrible (xkcd)

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TWiV 182: One flu over the ferrets’ nest

influenza h5 HAHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Michael J. Imperiale

Michael joins the TWiV crew to discuss the recently published influenza H5N1 transmission paper and how it was viewed by the NSABB.

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Alan – 18th century shipping mapped
Rich – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Vincent – Air France 447 (Telegraph)

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Josh – Vaccines course by Dr. Paul Offit

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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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