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

The TWiVoids discuss the March for Science, the GOF moratorium, and a classic virology paper on mapping the gene order for vesicular stomatitis virus.

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• ASM 2017 election is now open - VOTE HERE
• ASM Election questions:
  • Which positions are we voting for?
  • What is the ASM Board of Directors? Organization Chart
  • What is the Council on Microbial Sciences? Organization Chart
  • FAQs
• Scientists' march is bad idea (NY Times)
• GOF moratorium lifted (Archived White House)
• VSV gene order (PNAS)
• VSV gene order later (PNAS)
• Letters read on TWiV 427

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