Episode Details

TWiV travels to Rutgers University to speak with Brad, Kay, Siobain, and Kim about their careers and their work on viruses of plants, fungi, bacteria, diatoms, and coccolithophores.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Brianne Barker

Guests: Brad Hillman, Kay Bidle, Siobain Duffy, and Kim Thamatrakoln

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Links for this episode

• Viruses of plant-interacting fungi (Adv Virus Res)
• Why are RNA virus mutation rates so damn high? (PLoS Biol)
• CRESS viruses (Adv Virus Res)
• Coccolithovirus facilitation of carbon export in North Atlantic (Nat Micro)
• Silicon limitation facilitates virus infection of marine diatoms (Nat Micro)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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