Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVumvirate discusses a whole Ebolavirus vaccine that protects primates, the finding that Ebolavirus is not undergoing rapid evolution, and a proposal to increase the pool of life science researchers by cutting money and time from grants.
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Links for this episode
- Possible sexual transmission of Ebolavirus (MMWR) 28:55
- Ebolavirus whole-virus vaccine protects primates (Science) 31:55
- Biologically contained Ebolaviruses (PNAS) 35:00
- Ebolavirus is evolving but not changing (Virology) 52:40
- Ebolavirus not undergoing rapid evolution (Science) 52:40
- Increasing the pool of researchers (MBoC) 1:01:10
- Letters read on TWiV 335 7:05, 1:10:00
Timestamps by Jennifer. Thank you!
Weekly Science Picks 1:36:15
Alan – Pinboard
Rich – Academic medicine investment in medical research
Kathy – Tissue paper stop motion animation
Dickson – Do peer review panels select best science proposals?
Vincent – MMR and autism: Still no association
Listener Pick of the Week
Ramon – Autism by MMR vaccine status
Mehul – Ebolavirus disease course
Justin – Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses by Gunther S. Stent
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Link for Kathy’s snippet (Lorsch and Drubin): http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/26/9/1578.long
Thanks for reading my comment! I liked Juanjo’s letter and I agree with John/Lee that the bi/tripartite genomes/particles are quite interesting.
I work on plants, but I think flowers are nice mainly because it is easy to get a lot of RNA from them (lots of small cells packed together). Good for immunoprecipitations and assaying systemic virus movement.
Where can I find Jennifer’s timings?
One idea: put a link to them in the show notes.
Ideally, there would be a time IN the show notes.
Of course the timestamps are in the show notes, they have always been. I don’t put them in until Monday morning because that’s when I receive them from Jennifer.
There’s a wrong link in Ramon’s Listener Pick of the Week
Thanks for discussing the mutation rates in Ebola. I think it’s important to separate science from scipop which Michael T. Osterholm was manifesting. Private conversations, conjecture, and peer-reviewed science need to be clearly delineated even among experts.
Hi! This is Candy Ton from Creative Biolabs (http://www.creative-biolabs.com). Thanks for sharing this discussion about Ebola in such a different way.