Episode Details

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Michael Imperiale, Adam Lauring, and Akira Ohno

Vincent visits the University of Michigan where he and Kathy speak with Michael, Adam, and Akira about polyomaviruses, virus evolution, and virus assembly, on the occasion of naming the department of Microbiology & Immunology a Milestones in Microbiology site.

Links for this episode

• World Polio Day 3:20
• Mole Day 5:25
• The rat virus (J Inf Dis) 20:00
• Polyomavirus miRNAs (Curr Op Virol) 39:30
• Costs of GOF pause (mBio) 45:00
• Lethal mutagenesis of influenza virus (J Virol) 1:03:35
• Mutational robustness in RNA virus evolution (Nat Rev Micro) 52:00
• Membrane binding of gag (mBio) 1:12:55
• Cell proteins in retrovirus particles (J Virol) 1:23:15
• Michael's twitter
• Adam's twitter
• Video of this episode - view below or at YouTube

Weekly Science Picks 1:27:30

Kathy - Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Lego #1 and #2 and Ada Lovelace Day
Vincent - MiSciWriters

Listener Picks

Junio - XKCD marks the spot
Kari - Spoonflower

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