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TWiV 1270: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin15 Nov 202500:50:56

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello record from the ASTMH meeting in Toronto and discuss continuing avian flu outbreaks, the continued global measles outbreak, the effectiveness of high and low doses of the influenza vaccine before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, children hospitalizations following COVID-19 and influenza vaccination, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV 1269: The smell of influenza in the morning09 Nov 202501:52:28

TWiV reviews the passing of James D. Watson, the research that showed human papillomaviruses to be present in genital and laryngeal papillomas and in some cervical cancers, and influenza virus infection, shedding and symptoms in a human challenge study.

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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Brianne – Pandemic board game
Rich – Whiskey Fungus Fed by Jack Daniel's Encrusts a Tennessee Town
Alan – Rats can snatch bats out of the air and eat them
Vincent – 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin11 Oct 202500:48:36

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about Jane Goodall's death and the Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine for understanding immune system control before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, if 2 doses of the influenza vaccine are better for protection of first season children, if COVID-19 negatively impacts pregnancy and the unborn child, efficacy of long-acting monoclonal antibody against symptomatic COVID-19, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, can you be retreated with Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID in pediatrics, association of COVID-19 with new-onset vascular dementia and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV 1177: Going to school for flu22 Dec 202401:23:31

At the School for Influenza in Brisbane, TWiV speaks with Kirsty, Erik and Rebecca about their careers and their research.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Kirsty ShortErik Karlsson, and Rebecca Cox

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV 299: Rocky Mountain virology24 Aug 201401:27:05

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Marshall BloomSonja Best, and Byron Caughey

Vincent visits the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana and speaks with Marshall, Sonja, and Byron about their work on tick-born flaviviruses, innate immunity, and prion diseases.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 298: MV-NIS de myelo17 Aug 201401:45:35

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV gang answer follow-up questions about the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, then discuss treatment of  disseminated multiple myeloma with oncolytic measles virus.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - WTF, Evolution?! by Mara Grunbaum
Rich - Cold Spring Harbor Oral History Collection
Kathy - Inside insides
Vincent - 
Going Viral (Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre)

Listener Pick of the Week

Kim - Nobel Prize Podcasts
Johnye - The Planet is Fine
Jennie - Counter-Zombie Dominance Plan (pdf)

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TWiV 297: Ebola! Don't panic10 Aug 201401:54:41

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVites present an all-ebolavirus episode, tackling virology, epidemiology, and approaches to prevention and cure that are in the pipeline.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Historical perspective on Ebola (Tara C Smith)
Rich - Tell the negative committee to shut up (Fanuel Muindi)
Kathy - Art of Night (Vimeo)
Vincent - 
Is Ebola virus going to kill me? (John Skylar)

Listener Pick of the Week

Peter - Dr. Michael Saag interview by Dr. Virginia Campbell
David - PI Predictor (apparticlepublication)

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TWiV 296: The real Batman, Linfa Wang03 Aug 201401:02:11

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Linfa Wang

Vincent visits the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia and speaks with Linfa about his work on bats and bat viruses.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 295: A nonslip grippe and Lassa's LAMP27 Jul 201401:48:25

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiVome discusses an miRNA based strategy to mitigate risk of gain of function studies, and identification of a second receptor required for Lassa virus entry.

Links for this episode

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Nicky Bay macrophotography (Flickr)
Rich - FASEB Third annual BioArt competition
Vincent - 
Up Close podcast (vrr episode)
Dickson - Science fun (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark Martin - Average bacteriophage
Konrad - Scholarpedia

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TWiV 294: Smallpox and anthrax and flu, oh my!20 Jul 201401:39:01

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiV team reviews the discovery of old vials of smallpox virus at NIH, anthrax and influenza mishaps at CDC, the baby who was not cured of HIV, Cambridge Working Group, and sacking of NSABB members.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Optivisor
Rich - Noller lab ribosome movies
Vincent - 
Creepy dreadful wonderful parasites
Dickson - National Center for Science Education

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark - The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell
Basel - iBioEducation

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TWiV 293: Virology Down Under13 Jul 201401:32:37

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Melissa ChurchillAlex KhromykhGilda Tachedjian, and Paul Young

Vincent visits Melbourne, Australia and speaks with Melissa, Alex, Gilda, and Paul about their work on HIV infection of the central nervous system, West Nile virus, microbicides for HIV, and the Koala retrovirus.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 292: Medimmune goes viral06 Jul 201401:12:45

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Wade Blair, Matt Dickson, Nicole Kallewaard-Lelay, and Ken Miller

Vincent visits Medimmune and speaks with Wade, Matt, Nicole, and Ken about why they work in industry and their daily roles in a biotechnology company.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 291: Ft. Collins abuzz with virologists29 Jun 201401:06:21

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Clodagh O'Shea and Ron Fouchier

Vincent, Rich, and Kathy and their guests Clodagh and Ron recorded this episode at the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society for Virology at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Rich - No sexual transmission of HCV (Am J Gastro)
Vincent
 - Made with code (blog post)
Kathy - Beautiful math images (and 50 Visions of Mathematics)

Listener Pick of the Week

Jon - Advances in Life Sciences winners (YouTube)
Dave - Adam Ruben

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TWiV 290: Baylor goes viral18 Jun 201401:27:49

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd

Vincent meets up with Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd at Baylor College of Medicine to talk about their work on polyomaviruses and virus induced stress.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 1176: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin21 Dec 202400:48:10

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin continues his discussion of whether the mysterious respiratory illness in the Congo is malaria, and in conjunction with your host Vincent Racaniello discusses how routine childhood immunizations especially that against poliovirus are threatened by Robert F Kennedy Jr and Aaron Siri, the origin of the SAR-CoV-2 virus and retraction of Didier Raoult's research, then returns to discussing the first case of severe disease following H5N1 infection in humans and the state of California's "bird flu emergency", the benefit of the measles vaccine, before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how vaccination reduced hospitalization of children between 5-17 years, the ACIP recommendation for the immunocompromised, where to find PEMGARDA, information for Columbia Unversity Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, long COVID in cancer patients and the physical malaises of long COVID.

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv

TWiV 289: Vinny and the capsids15 Jun 201401:40:41

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vinny and the capsids answer listener questions about the definition of life, state vaccination laws, the basic science funding problem, viral ecology, inactivation of viruses by pressure, and much more.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - The Science of Good Cooking 
Vincent - 
The Shooter Report (pdf)
Kathy - Daily overview
Dickson - Girl rising

Listener Pick of the Week

Johnye - Ri channel
Ricardo - Open spin microscope (Nikon galleryplans)
Chris - The microbiome game

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TWiV 288: ebircsnart esreveR08 Jun 201402:00:13

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The Twivsters discuss how reverse transcriptase encoded in the human genome might produce DNA copies of RNA viruses in infected cells.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Luvalamps
Alan - Experiment
Vincent - 
American Society for Virology on Facebook
Kathy - LEGO female scientists
Dickson - The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman

Listener Pick of the Week

Basel - A Treatise on the small-pox and measles by Abu-Bakr Al-Razi

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TWiV 287: A potentially pandemic podcast01 Jun 201401:47:37

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveKathy Spindler, and Matt Frieman

Matt updates the TWiV team on MERS-coronavirus, and joins in a discussion of whether we should further regulate research on potentially pandemic pathogens.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Matt - Forgive me, scientists
Alan - 
Do not link
Vincent - 
bioRxiv
Kathy - Snail photographs
Dickson - Solar roadways

Listener Pick of the Week

Daniel - Benz Biome concept car

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TWiV 286: Boston TWiV party26 May 201401:34:21

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Guests: Julie Pfeiffer and Paul Duprex

Vincent and Alan meet up with Julie and Paul at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, to talk about their work on the pathogenesis of poliovirus and measles virus.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Vincent - ASM Live 2014
Alan - I will not follow the herd
Paul - Invisible Threat
Julie - The importance of stupidity in biological research

Listener Pick of the Week

Neil - WEHI movies and VIZBI

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TWiV 285: Hokies go viral17 May 201401:28:21

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: XJ Meng and Sarah McDonald

Vincent meets up with XJ and Sarah at Virginia Tech to talk about their work on viruses of swine and rotaviruses.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 284: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes11 May 201401:42:39

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team discusses how skin scarification promotes a nonspecific immune response, and whether remaining stocks of smallpox virus should be destroyed.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Rich - EPCOT
Vincent - 
Medical Biotechnology
Kathy - Alan Alda interview and Flame Challenge winner
Dickson - NASA live from space

Listener Pick of the Week

Nicola - 50 cent microscope (be a beta tester)
Jon - Camtasia Studio

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TWiV 283: No Reston for the weary04 May 201401:50:27

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Jens H. Kuhn

Jens speaks with the TWiV team about filoviruses, including the recent Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - AMNH digital special collections
Vincent - 
Viral entry into host cells (Stefan Pöhlmann PhD, Graham Simmons PhD, eds)
Kathy - Papilloma song lyrics (pdf)
Jens - The Logic of Chance by Eugene V. Koonin

Listener Pick of the Week

Joe - Poor showing of 2012 influenza vaccine (Nature)
Phil - Emerging disease or emerging diagnosis? (YouTube)

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TWiV 282: Tamiflu and tenure too27 Apr 201401:44:27

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team reviews a meta-analysis of clinical trial reports on using Tamiflu for influenza, and suggestions on how to rescue US biomedical research from its systemic flaws.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Northampton Airport
Vincent - 
Particle Fever
Kathy - Turn iPhone into microscope
Rich - My favorite science gifs

Listener Pick of the Week

Nathan - The Ascent of Man (YouTube)

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TWiV 281: The Salk legacy with Peter L. Salk21 Apr 201401:30:53

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Peter L. Salk

Vincent meets up with Peter L. Salk to talk about development of the first poliovaccine, eradication of poliomyelitis, and Jonas Salk's 100th birth anniversary.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 280: Post viral13 Apr 201401:38:35

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVmeisters answer listener email about the NEIDL, negative results, patenting MERS-coronavirus, human papillomavirus transmission, canine distemper virus, and much, much more.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Heartbleed explanation
Vincent - 
Agriculture science today podcast
Kathy - Quizlet flashcards (online and iTunes)
Rich - Why nothing is truly alive

Listener Pick of the Week

Lance - Myles Power (YouTube and Facebook)
Raihan - Cheap DIY microscope
Gerald - DaVinci Press
Neal - I'm a virus

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TWiV 1175: A hitchiker's guide to virology15 Dec 202402:00:20

TWiV reviews the appearance of poliovirus in Europe, mystery disease in DRC, global burden of Chikungunya, viruses of parasitic nematodes that induce antibody responses in vertebrate hosts, and picobirnaviruses, do they infect eukaryotes or prokaryotes?

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey

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Links for this episode Weekly Picks

Alan – Sondehub and radiosonde hunting
Jolene – Book "10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young PeopleBy David Yeager
Vincent – Dr. Vinay Prasad "Sabotaging RFK Jr's Confirmation Will Increase Vaccine Hesitancy" & "Doctors Criticizing RFK Jr. Paved the Way for His Ascendancy"

Listener Picks

Syl – Foldscope
Jennifer – minutiae

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV 279: The missing LNC06 Apr 201401:29:33

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy reveal how a retrovirus in the human genome keeps embryonic stem cells in a pluripotent state, from where they can differentiate into all cells of the body.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Heathkit
Vincent - 
How to think about autism risk and Autism prevalence
Kathy - Distortions

Listener Pick of the Week

Joseph - The real process of science
Marion - Zometool
Kevin - Audioimmunity and Emmunity

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TWiV 278: Flushing HIV down the zinc30 Mar 201401:42:41

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy discuss disruption of the ccr5 gene in lymphocytes of patients infected with HIV-1.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Digital scale model of solar system
Dickson - Font of knowledge
Vincent - 
Measles outbreaks trends, and NYC measles (onetwo)
Kathy - Winner, funding basic science to revolutionize medicine

Listener Pick of the Week

Stephen & Jon - Watty's Wall Stuff
Johyne - Macro views of snowflakes
Ricardo & Stephen - Vaccine exemptions
Bill - Books by John Janovy
Marshall - Animation of DNA replication
Steve - Debunking influenza vaccine myths

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TWiV 277: My podcast Vinny23 Mar 201401:18:11

Hosts: Glenn RallAnn Skalka, and Vincent Racaniello

Glenn and Ann meet up with Vincent to talk about his career in science and science communication.

Video of this episode - view at YouTube

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TWiV 276: Ramblers go viral16 Mar 201401:09:55

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Susan Baker and Thomas Gallagher

Vincent meets up with Susan Baker and Tom Gallagher at Loyola University to talk about their work on coronaviruses.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Vincent - First demonstration of Macintosh, 1984

Listener Pick of the Week

Lance - The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

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TWiV 275: Virocentricity with Eugene Koonin09 Mar 201402:09:43

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guest: Eugene Koonin

Vincent and Rich meet up with Eugene Koonin to talk about the central role of viruses in the evolution of all life.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 274: Data dump02 Mar 201402:00:05


Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team discusses recent cases of polio-like paralysis in California, and the virome of 14th century paleofeces.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - The science of science communication
Rich
 - Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Dickson - Top 10 plant viruses
Vincent - 
Is the Nobel Prize good for science?
Kathy - Time to rethink graduate and postdoc education (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Jon - Lessons from a Kansas graveyard
Mike -  Cross a fashion designer with a microbiologist

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TWiV special: MERS-coronavirus in dromedary camels25 Feb 201400:38:13

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: W. Ian Lipkin and Thomas Briese

Vincent meets up with Ian and Thomas to discuss their finding that MERS-coronavirus has been circulating in dromedary camels in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since at least 1992.

Links for this episode

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TWiV 273: Lambda is not just a phage23 Feb 201401:43:27

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVome dissect the finding that interferon lambda alleles predict the outcome of hepatitis C virus infection.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Think like a scientist (onetwo); Science controversies
Dickson - Visualization challenge 2013
Vincent - 
Orphan Black
Kathy - Alberta worm invasion project

Listener Pick of the Week

Timothy - How do vaccines cause autism?
Anne - Luke Jerram's glass viruses
Jim - NLM Communications Engineering Branch
Steve - Synapse by synapse
J
acob - 
Tiny technology creates a buzz

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TWiV 272: Give peas a chance16 Feb 201401:48:01

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team describes aphid control by using a viral capsid protein to deliver a spider toxin to plants, and a human endogenous retrovirus that enhances expression of a neuronal gene.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Statistical error (Nature)
Rich - 12 oldest animal species
Dickson - When liquids collide
Vincent - 
HIV denial and just asking questions
Kathy - Sun's canyon of fire

Listener Pick of the Week

Sandra - Women physicists keep female students psyched
Judi - HHMI's Biointeractive
Jacob - Influenza virus HA

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TWiV 271: To bee, or not to bee, that is the infection09 Feb 201401:36:07

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Ashlee Bennett

The TWiV crew discusses two reports on viruses that might have crossed kingdoms, from plants to honeybees and from plants to vertebrates.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Nagasaki bombing (YouTube)
Rich - GoPro Red Bull Stratos (YouTube)
Dickson - Solar orbs
Vincent - 
Socrative

Listener Pick of the Week

Basel - Pathology course online
Russell - Sochi 2014: Encyclopedia of spending
Yegor - Visual Science

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TWiV 1174: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin14 Dec 202400:49:10

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin deep dives into whether the mysterious respiratory illness in the Congo is malaria, and in conjunction with your host Vincent Racaniello discusses the failure of the poliovirus eradication campaign with virus circulation detected throughout Europe and how we should focus on disease control not virus circulation, then returns to discussing avian influenza in raw milk and the early stoppage of the mpox antiviral Tecovirimat  before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, if there is a difference in protection against the development of severe disease between an mRNA or a protein based vaccine, where to find PEMGARDA, and information for Columbia Unversity Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center.

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Links for this episode

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv

TWiV 270: Homeland virology02 Feb 201401:24:27

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guests: Dennis Hruby and Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Vincent and Rich discuss avian influenza virus and an antiviral drug against smallpox with Dennis and Yoshi at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in Washington, DC.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Vincent - Quanta Magazine
Rich - Colour is in the eye of the beholder

Listener Pick of the Week

Kehau - Beautiful but deadly viruses

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TWiV 269: Herpesvirus stops a nuclear attack26 Jan 201401:42:27

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team reviews evidence for sensing of herpesviral DNA in the nucleus by the cell protein IFI16. 

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - Female conveners and speakers
Alan - Sandgrains
Rich - 2013 Lamborghini Aventador
Vincent - Happy Birthday Mac and 128K Mac teardown
Dickson - Farmdominion

Listener Pick of the Week

Peter - The Microscope and The Next Global Killer
Richard - Glass viruses

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TWiV 268: Transmission is inevitable19 Jan 201401:46:09

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveKathy Spindler, and Ashlee Bennett

Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - Jean-Luc Doumont (slidescommunicating science, website, Scitable)
Alan - Wireless thermometer
Vincent - LORiOLA viral necklaces

Listener Pick of the Week

Jessica - Knit icosahedron
Robert - Practical computing for biologists by Haddock and Dunn
Stephen - Fourteen years of US weather (YouTube)

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TWiV 267: Snow in the headlights12 Jan 201401:35:13

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Kathy review a protease essential for influenza pathogenesis in mice, and directionality of rhinovirus RNA exit from the capsid.

Links for this episode Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - Amazing maps
Alan - Florida to NJ in 156 seconds (YouTube)
Rich - Whiteout over Great Lakes from Space
Vincent - LORiOLA viral necklaces

Listener Pick of the Week

Carol - Knit picornavirus
Robert - RNA: Life's Indispensible Molecule by James Darnell,
and Biochemical Pathways by Michal and Schomburg

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TWiV 266: A pathogenic vicious cycle05 Jan 201401:37:01

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy discuss finding viruses in outer space, varying results obtained from personal genetic testing, and depletion of CD4 cells during HIV infection by pyroptosis.

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Kathy - 17 mundane things, mind blowing views
Alan - Snowovel
Vincent - Public's views on human evolution

Listener Pick of the Week

Emily - Dengue pillow 

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TWiV 265: This year in virology29 Dec 201301:43:27

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

In their final episode of the year, the TWiV team reviews ten compelling virology stories from 2013.

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Kathy - Women in Science
Alan - Contagium
Rich - RC helicopter (demo)
Vincent - The athletic power of quadcopters

Listener Pick of the Week

Lindsay - Alcohol consumption and vaccines (Vaccine)
Johnye - The Singing Microbiologist

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TWiV 264: We should do an all-email show some day22 Dec 201301:40:11

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVites read listener questions and comments about public engagement in science, vaccines, RNAi, reprogramming CD8 cells to treat cancer, rabies, and much more.

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Kathy - Sorting algorithms visualized
Alan - Stratodean
Rich - Art in Science by Polyxeni Potter
Vincent - Pixel Genes

Listener Pick of the Week

Judi - Olympus BioScapes Winner

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TWiV 263: Game of clones15 Dec 201301:43:43

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan DoveRich ConditKathy Spindler, and Ben tenOever

Ben joins the TWiV team to reveal the winner of his contest in which influenza viruses carrying different interferon-stimulated genes vie against one another in mice.

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Kathy - The Brain Scoop, esp. Where My Ladies At
Alan - Say 'hi' to a spaceship (YouTube)
Rich - Garmin BlueChart Mobile and Active Captain
Vincent - Journal boycott (onetwo)
Dickson - Futurescape TV show

Listener Pick of the Week

Luis - Spillover by David Quammen
Ken - Gravity

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TWiV 262: Wrong form, right professor09 Dec 201301:35:51

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Ann Palmenberg

Vincent returns to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to speak with Ann Palmenberg about her career in virology.

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TWiV 261: Giants among viruses01 Dec 201301:12:25

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and James Van Etten

Guests: Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie

Vincent meets up with Chantal and Jean-Michel at the first International Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany, to discuss their work on Mimivirus, Megavirus, and Pandoravirus.

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TWiV 1173: Holy Cow! Convergent evolution!08 Dec 202401:59:32

TWiV reviews nominees to head NIH, FDA, and CDC, cervical cancer decline following HPV vaccination, local dengue in Texas, human isolate of H5N1 virus is transmissible and virulent in animal models, and shared mechanisms of immune evasion among animal and bacterial viruses.

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich ConditKathy SpindlerBrianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey

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Brianne – Pale Blue Pod
Kathy – PhysicsGirl recent Instagram postScienceAdvisor signup free daily sci news distillation, Semi-conducting hydrogelsBot that can pick up things with a soft touch"Pigeonbot II", a drone called LisRaptorzapping forever chemicals like PFAS with light and here
Rich – Vendee Globe
Jolene – Center for the Improvement of Mentored Research Experiences
Vincent – These two ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV 260: Badgers go viral24 Nov 201301:35:19

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Tom FriedrichTony Goldberg, and David O'Connor

Vincent visits the University of Wisconsin, Madison and speaks with Tom, Tony, and David about their work on virus discovery at the AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory.

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TWiV 259: Windows into the soul of a cell16 Nov 201301:26:53

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guest: Jaquelin Dudley

Vincent and Rich join Jackie at the University of Texas, Austin to talk about her work on mouse mammary tumor virus.

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