Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Scott Tibbetts

Scott Tibbetts joins the TWiVists to describe his work on the role of a herpesviral nocoding RNA in establishment of peripheral latency, and then we visit two last minute additions to the Zika virus literature.

Links for this episode

Noncoding RNA required for establishment of latency (mSphere) 17:20
Lessons learned from in vivo studies of a viral noncoding RNA (mSphere) 1:05:05
Zika virus in pregnant women in Rio de Janeiro (NEJM) 1:06:10
Zika virus infects cortical neural progenitors (Cell Stem Cell) 1:12:00
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Letters read on TWiV 379 1:15:10

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast 4:15, 1:05:25

Weekly Science Picks 1:42:45

Alan - Okeanos ExplorerDickson - Rome Reborn Vincent - Twitter Missing ManualScott - Best Science Images of 2015Kathy - Space Travel Posters Rich - GoISSWatch

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Peter - Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market

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TWiV 379: A mouse divided