Podcast Episodes

Engineering Toxoplasma

Episode 244

Lilach Sheiner joins TWiP to talk about her career and her work on engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons.

Hosts:…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Don't blame it on Mexico

Episode 243

TWiP solves the case of the Woman with White Worms, and submits a new case involving a 1 year old in northeastern Panama with a fatal leg infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Dan…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Worms impair COVID vaccines

Episode 242

TWiP reviews a study showing that intestinal helminth infection impairs vaccine-induced T cell responses through an IL-10 pathway, which compromised protection against antigenically drifted SARS-CoV-…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

There once was a patient from China

Episode 241

Published on 1 year ago

A daily history of malaria with Sean Murphy

Episode 240

Sean Murphy joins TWiP to discuss his career and the work of his laboratory to assess the daily natural history of asymptomatic Plasmodium infections in adults and older children in Katakwi, Uganda.

Published on 1 year ago

Cryptosporidiosis from NYC tap water in an AIDS patient

Episode 239

TWiP solves the case of the AIDS patient who developed fever and watery diarrhea after drinking NYC tap water, and present a new case for your sleuthing.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Daniel Griffin

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Eliminating sleeping sickness

Episode 238

Michael Barrett joins TWiP to discuss progress in the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin, Dickson Despommier and Christina Naul…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Pass the venison, deer with Marilyn Fabbri

Episode 237

Marilyn Fabbri joins TWiP to reveal the case of a patient who became very ill after he and a number of friends attended a large dinner where venison and boar were served.

Hosts: Daniel Griffin, Dicks…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Prime-and-trap vaccine for malaria

Episode 236

Marion Avril of MalarVx, Inc. joins TWiP to discuss an accelerated prime-and-trap regimen using repRNA-based circumsporozoite vaccine.

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Christina Naula

Guest: Marion Avri…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The case of the regurgitated wriggler

Episode 235

TWiP solves the case of a man in his 50s reporting months of abdominal discomfort, who takes mebendazole and some time afterwards vomits a worm into the sink.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despo…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago