Podcast Episodes

Inventing viruses

Episode 573

William Summers joins the TWiV team to discuss some virology history, including the ever-changing concept of 'virus' and the contribution of phage re…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Your EV-D68th nervous breakdown

Episode 572

Amy joins the TWiV team to review evidence that enterovirus D68 is an etiologic agent of childhood paralysis, and her finding that the ability of the…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Piwi koalas

Episode 571

The League of Extraordinary Virologists celebrate the eradication of wild poliovirus type 3, and consider the effectiveness of an influenza vaccine p…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Aarhus viral

Episode 570

At Aarhus University in Denmark, Vincent speaks with Trine Mogensen, Søren Paludan, Ole Søgaard, and Madalina Carter-Timofte about their careers and …

6 years, 11 months ago

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Smolt'in iron

Episode 569

The TWiV pro-vaxxers reveal viruses that infect endangered wild salmon, and how iron in host serum modulates dengue virus acquisition by mosquitoes.

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6 years, 11 months ago

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Karolinska viral

Episode 568

 In the second episode from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Vincent speaks with Jan Albert, Petter Brodin, and Anna Smed-Sörensen about their …

6 years, 11 months ago

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Outbreaks and a breakout

Episode 567

The TWiV team covers outbreaks of eastern equine encephalitis virus in the US and poliovirus in the Philippines, and explain how a chemokine induced …

6 years, 11 months ago

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Chicken gumbo and a corona

Episode 566

The TWiV team reveals the protein corona that surrounds virus particles and influences infectivity and amyloid aggregation, and a proofreading-impair…

7 years ago

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Karolinska virology

Episode 565

From the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Vincent speaks with Niklas Björkström, Ali Mirazimi, and Matti Sällberg about their work on the impact of…

7 years ago

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Virology Nobel Prizes with Erling Norrby

Episode 564

From the 16th Smögen Summer Symposium on Virology, Vincent speaks with Erling Norrby about how he has used archival material to provide insight into …

7 years ago

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