Podcast Episodes

Virology in Zürich

Episode 523

At the University of Zürich, Vincent speaks with virologists Cornel Fraefel, Urs Greber, and Silke Stertz about their careers and their work on AAV2,…

7 years, 2 months ago

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Readers of the lost ORF

Episode 522

The TWiVsters review isolation of a naturally occurring DNA virus from fruit flies, and the cell-type specific function of a small transmembrane prot…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Spitting in the Allee

Episode 521

Team TWiV cover the discovery of another giant virus from 30,000 year old Siberian permafrost, and how viral aggregation accelerates the production o…

7 years, 3 months ago

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This old mouse

Episode 520

The TWiVidae review universal influenza vaccines that are in clinical trials, and discovery of an atypical parvovirus that causes chronic kidney dise…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Fishing for viruses in senile

Episode 519

The TWiVomers review a potential role for herpes simplex virus type 1 as a cause of Alzheimer's Disease, including the finding that amyloid-beta acts…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Hershey's viruses

Episode 518

Vincent travels to Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA to speak with Nick and Leslie about their careers and their work on human cytomegalo…

7 years, 4 months ago

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Just in time for Halloween

Episode 517

Brianne and Vincent tackle two studies that utilize infectious viruses to examine zoonotic potential of Bombali virus, a new ebolavirus from an insec…

7 years, 4 months ago

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HUSH little virus, don't you transcribe

Episode 516

Lonya and Jeremy take the TWiV team beTWIXt primate immunodeficiency virus proteins Vpx and Vpr and how they counteract transcriptional repression of…

7 years, 4 months ago

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When virus is in retrograde

Episode 515

The TWiV team notes the passing of Tom Steitz, an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis in the US, a continuing Ebola virus outbreak in DRC, respiratory…

7 years, 4 months ago

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Staying below the ADAR

Episode 514

The TWiVumvirate reviews this years crop of Nobel Prizes, and how cells prevent leakage of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA into the cytoplasm, whic…

7 years, 4 months ago

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