Episode Details

Patrick Moore returns to TWiV to discuss the discovery from the Chang-Moore laboratory of circular RNAs in cells infected with herpesviruses.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Patrick Moore

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• Please take the TWiV listener survey
• ASV 2019
• European Congress of Virology 2019
• ASM Clinical Virology Symposium
• Intel ISEF judges needed
• Cancer virology at Pitt
• Alice Huang’s DI particles (PubMed)
• Circular DNA tumor viruses make circular RNAs (PNAS)
• Backsplice
• Image credit
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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