Podcast Episodes

The church of protocadherin

Episode 549

Kartik and Rohit join the TWiV team to present their identification of protocadherin-1 as a cell receptor for New World hantaviruses.

Hosts: Vincent …

7 years ago

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Mice, shrews, and caterpillars

Episode 548

Vincent travels to the European Congress of Virology in Rotterdam and with local co-host Marion Koopmans speak with Martin Beer, Stephan Gunther, and…

7 years ago

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Upstate virology

Episode 547

Vincent travels to the University at Albany to speak with Cara, Rachel, and Alex about their careers and their work on stress granules, epitranscript…

7 years ago

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Delta blues and chitlins

Episode 546

The un-encapsidated TWiV Humans discuss finding hepatitis D virus-related sequences in birds and snakes, and fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome cau…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Biocrimes and misdemeanors

Episode 545

Jens Kuhn returns to TWiV to explain Select Agents, Priority Pathogens, Australia List Pathogens, Risk Group Agents, biosafety, biosecurity, and bios…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Immunogaga

Episode 544

The TWiV team reveals the repertoire of anti-viral antibodies in newborn humans, and a complement protein that binds the adenovirus capsid and preven…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Stoned and senile

Episode 543

The TWiV team discusses Medusavirus, isolated from a hot spring in Japan, and induction of neurodegeneration by recurrent herpes simplex virus 1 infe…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Inside Microbiotix

Episode 542

Vincent travels to Microbiotix, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company in Worcester, MA to speak with four members of the company about their discovery and…

7 years, 1 month ago

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Cloaking devices

Episode 541

The TWiVers present mitoviruses, which infect mitochondria, and how quasi-enveloped hepatitis A virus gets naked again.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Di…

7 years, 2 months ago

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Wascally wiruses

Episode 540

The TWiVstars reveal the diversity of herpes simplex virus type 2 in a neonatal population, and parallel adaptation of rabbits in three countries to …

7 years, 2 months ago

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