Episode Details

The TWiVome deconstructs the evolutionary history of RNA viruses, and immune promortion of murine norovirus pathogenesis by replication in intestinal tuft cells.

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

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2018
• Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
• Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine
• Evolutionary historyof RNA viruses (Nature)
• The amphioxus song
• Norovirus tropism for tuft cells(Science)
• Letters readon TWiV 491

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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