Hosts: 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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I can’t recall if this is the ‘war stories’ episode, but I just wanted to mention that I liked it. As a bioinformatician approaching from the computer science/statistics end of the spectrum, I would like to find time to work in a wet lab. Hearing you guys reminisce just fortifies that desire.