Episode Details

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

Guest: Scott Tibbetts

Scott Tibbetts joins the TWiVists to describe his work on the role of a herpesviral nocoding RNA in establishment of peripheral latency, and then we visit two last minute additions to the Zika virus literature.

Links for this episode

• Noncoding RNA required for establishment of latency (mSphere) 17:20
• Lessons learned from in vivo studies of a viral noncoding RNA (mSphere) 1:05:05
• Zika virus in pregnant women in Rio de Janeiro (NEJM) 1:06:10
• Zika virus infects cortical neural progenitors (Cell Stem Cell) 1:12:00
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 379 1:15:10

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast 4:15, 1:05:25

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Scott - Best Science Images of 2015
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Rich - GoISSWatch

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