Episode Details

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

Guests: Greg Smith and Mark Fuccio

Greg Smith joins the TWiVirate to reveal how his lab discovered a switch that controls herpesvirus neuroinvasion, and then we visit the week's news about Zika virus.

Links for this episode

• Dynamic ubiquitination drives herpesvirus neuroinvasion (PNAS)
• Releasing Zika virus data in real time (Nature)
• Zika virus infection and stillbirths (PLoS NTD)
• Zika virus infection, imported, Italy (Eurosurveillance)
• Letters read on TWiV 378

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Science byline counting project
Dickson - Bill Nye on climate change
Vincent - Zdziarski's blog of things (Apple's motion to vacate)
Greg - Atlas, the next generation
Kathy - Sources of Chaco wood
Mark - How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns

Listener Pick

Bohdan - The real reason for brains

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