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TWiV 194: Five postdocs in North America

  • August 5, 2012
  • Tagged as: flavivirus, genetic conflict, hepatitis C virus, herpesvirus, jaagsiekte, postdoc, postdoctoral, retrovirus, vaccinia virus, viral, virology, virus

Vincent returns to Madison, Wisconsin and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers.

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TWiV 185: Dead parrots and live Wildcats

  • May 27, 2012
  • Tagged as: dna sequencing, ferret, H5N1, herpesvirus, influenza, neuroinvasiveness, northwestern university wildcats, paramyxovirus, viral, virology, virus

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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TWiV 132: Virology 911

  • May 8, 2011
  • Tagged as: alfred sacchetti, emergency medicine, emergency room, enterovirus, herpesvirus, influenza virus, molluscum contagiousum, poxvirus, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson speak with Alfred Sacchetti, MD, Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, about viral infections encountered in the emergency room.

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TWiV 115: Color me infected

  • January 9, 2011
  • Tagged as: brainbow, Chikungunya, dengue, herpesvirus, malaria, mosquito, plaque assay, pseudorabies virus, replication, viral, virology, virus, wolbachia

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication in Aedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont.

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TWiV 106: Making viral DNA II

  • November 6, 2010
  • Tagged as: adenovirus, DNA, dna synthesis, double helix, genome, herpesvirus, parvovirus, polymerase, poxvirus, replication, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a second installment of their discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.

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TWiV 84: Gators go viral

  • May 30, 2010
  • Tagged as: david bloom, gainesville, gators, grant mcfadden, herpes simplex virus, herpesvirus, myxoma virus, oncolytic virotherapy, poxvirus, viral, virology, virus

Vincent and Rich spoke with Dave Bloom and Grant McFadden about their work on herpesviruses and poxviruses in this episode recorded before an audience at the University of Florida, Gainesville – home of the Gators.

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TWiV 54: Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary

  • October 18, 2009
  • Tagged as: asilomar, bacteriophage, H1N1, herpesvirus, holliday junction, influenza, recombinant dna, restriction enzyme, swine flu, TWiV, viral, virology, virus

Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way he did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses.

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TWiV 10: Bats, elephants, and AIDS

  • December 4, 2008
  • Tagged as: AIDS, bats, elephant, herpesvirus, hiv, SARS, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Vincent, DIck, and Alan chat about reconstruction of a bat SARS-like coronavirus, herpesviruses that are killing elephants in zoos, and a plan to eradicate AIDS in ten years.

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TWiV 5: Herpesviruses

  • October 23, 2008
  • Tagged as: ganglia, herpes simplex virus, herpesvirus, latency, reactivation, Saul Silverstein, shingles, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoster

Vincent and Saul discuss infection, latency, and reactivation by members of the herpesvirus family of viruses.

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