TWiV 356: Got viruses?

September 27, 2015

Butter kidsHosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Stephanie Neal

Stephanie joins the super professors to discuss the gut virome of children with serious malnutrition, caterpillar genes acquired from parasitic wasps, and the effect of adding chemokines to a simian immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine.

Click arrow to play
Download TWiV 356 (84 MB .mp3, 117 min)
Subscribe (free): iTunesRSSemail

Links for this episode

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks 1:18:35, 1:45:30

Alan – Plates from Hooke’s Micrographia
Rich – The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Kathy – Spore evaporation-driven engines (video and article)
Dickson – Color variations of Pluto and Lunar total eclipse
StephanieThe science of moldy cheese by Carl Zimmer
Vincent – But Why?

Listener Pick of the Week

Reed – The Bench Warmers Podcast

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

2 comments on “TWiV 356: Got viruses?

  1. Wrong link for the SIV vaccine paper (duplicate of ‘random forests’ explanation). Three ways to link to it:
    http://www.nature.com/mi/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mi201531a.html
    http://doi.org/10.1038/mi.2015.31
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25943275

  2. Tracy Sep 28, 2015

    Is there anywhere you can read articles on this?