Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVniks consider the role of a cell enzyme that removes a protein linked to the 5′-end of the picornavirus genome, and the connection between malaria, Epstein-Barr virus, and endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma.
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- Divergent requirements for removing VPg (mBio) 12:10
- Bond, covalent bond (TWiV 210) 13:45
- Link between malaria and endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (PLoS Path) 36:50
- Multifactorial role of malaria in Burkitt’s lymphoma (PLoS Path) 47:30
- Plasmodium infection promotes AID-dependent B cell lymphoma (Cell) 55:55
- Children’s cancer dependent on climatic factors (Nature) 38:30
- Denis Burkitt (Wikipedia) 38:20
- Request for PACE trial data (virology blog)
- Letters read on TWiV 374 1:09:30
This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Grant Writing Webinar 4:50, 1:08:10
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Alan – Indoor skydiving
Vincent – Cancer Virus by Crawford, Johannessen, and Rickinson
Rich – Wit
Kathy – The Only Woman in the Room by Eileen Pollack
Dickson – Show everyone your clinical data
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I just finished reading The Only Woman in the Room. It also resonated with me because I started out as an oceanography major in 1975, but the department had a picnic for us freshmen telling us we would be expected to get a PhD and still be underemployed. So I took my experience from my membership in Junior Engineering Technical Society the previous and switched to engineering.
I was one of two women to graduate with a degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1980. When I started the program (after a six month internship at a manufacturing company) there were seventy students. I graduated in about the middle of the pack of the thirty five who received a BSAA that year. So I lived much of what she wrote about.
I experienced something similar to what happened to her in the chapter about “Too Many Male Hormones”, only it wasn’t hormones, it was stress. By the way, I also still have my Halliday and Resnick physics book, though I have the two volume version.
Though she has nothing on why my career was derailed. It had to do with giving birth to a child with several medical issues. Who I am still parenting over twenty five years later. Last week I spent time in medical facility waiting rooms three days in a row, where I was able to read much of the book.
Wow, did I ever screw up the verbiage, Dear Microbe Team, please ignore the bad grammar in that comment. Let me just say in my defense, “I’m an engineer not a writer, Captain!” 😉