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TWiV 581: Alimentary particles

  • January 5, 2020
  • Tagged as: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, antibiotic, antibody, arbovirus, blood meal, H1N1, h3n2, influenza vaccine, microbiome, mosquito, vector competence, viral, virology, virus

For the first TWiV of 2020 we reveal that microbiome depletion with antibiotics alters the immune response to influenza vaccine, and how successive blood meals facilitate virus dissemination in mosquitoes and transmission potential.

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TWiV 487: Milwaukee viral

  • April 1, 2018
  • Tagged as: bacteriophage, gammaherpesvirus 68, herpesvirus, human cytomegalovirus, interferon, Medical College of Wisconsin, microbiome, science policy, viral, virology, virus, viruses

At the Medical College of Wisconsin, Vincent talks with current and former members of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology about their work and their careers.

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TWiV 444: Astro Kate, The Right Stuff

  • June 4, 2017
  • Tagged as: astronaut, cell culture, dna sequencing, gravity, International Space Station, ISS, Kate Rubins, microbiome, NASA, space travel, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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From ASM Microbe 2017 at New Orleans, Vincent and Rich meet up with Kate Rubins to talk about becoming an astronaut, space travel, and doing science in space.

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TWiV 391: Whiter reefs, fresh breath

  • May 29, 2016
  • Tagged as: coral reef, holobiont, microbiome, mouth, oral cavity, saliva, viral, virology, virome, virus, viruses
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If you have always wanted to know what coral reefs and the human oral cavity have in common, listen as guests David Pride and Forest Rohwer talk about their work on the microbiomes and viromes of these two environments, and you’ll also understand why mucus is cool.

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TWiV 355: Baby’s first virome

  • September 20, 2015
  • Tagged as: gain of function, GOF, gut, human, influenza virus, intestine, Kevin Folta, leishmania, Leishmaniavirus, LRV, microbiome, parasite, twins, viral, virology, virome, virus

The TWiV team considers the effect of a Leishmaniavirus on the efficacy of drug treatment, and the human fecal virome and microbiome in twins during early infancy.

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TWiV 323: A skid loader full of viromes

  • February 8, 2015
  • Tagged as: bacteria, bacteriophage, Chron's disease, enteric, fecal virome, inflammatory bowel disease, microbiome, ulcerative colitis, viral, virology, virome, virus

The family TWiVidae discuss changes in the human fecal virome associated with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

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TWiV 313: With viruses like these, who needs enemas?

  • November 30, 2014
  • Tagged as: commensal bacteria, ebolavirus, gastroenteritis, microbiome, norovirus, Paneth cell, small intestine, villus, viral, virology, virome, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss how norovirus, an enteric virus, can replace the functions of the gut microbiome.

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TWiV 286: Boston TWiV party

  • May 25, 2014
  • Tagged as: Boston University, bsl4, canine distemper virus, eradication, lipopolysaccharide, measles virus, microbiome, NEIDL, pathogenesis, poliovirus, stabilization, viral, virology, virus

Vincent and Alan meet up with Julie and Paul at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, to talk about their work on the pathogenesis of poliovirus and measles virus.

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TWiV 204: M m m my corona

  • October 21, 2012
  • Tagged as: adenovirus, coronavirus, enteric virome, immunodeficiency, lentivirus, microbiome, Middle East, pneumonia, Qatar, Ron Fouchier, SARS, Saudia Arabia, simian AIDS, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, Matt and Kathy review isolation of a new coronavirus from two patients in the Middle East, and expansion of the enteric virome during simian AIDS.

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TWiV 139: Honey, I shrunk the virus

  • June 26, 2011
  • Tagged as: allopatric, amoeba, colony collapse disorder, gene deletion, genome, honey bee, microbiome, mimivirus, sympatric, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Dickson discuss the reduction in genome size of Mimivirus upon passage in amoeba, and analysis of the microbiome of honeybees.

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