TWiV 973: Crouching virus, hidden triggers with Felicia Goodrum

Felicia joins TWiV to discuss her career and her research on human cytomegalovirus, which infects most of us for our entire lives yet mainly causes disease in the immunosuppressed.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Felicia Goodrum

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Links for this episode

•Research assistant position at FDA (pdf) •The loss of binary (Curr Clin Micro Rep) •Virology in Peril (mBio) •Letters read on TWiV 973 •Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Brianne – “Leukocyte” immunology video parody Alan – West Point Removing Confederate Monuments, and Ty Seidule’s book on that subject Vincent – The works of Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun; also short stories (First Person Singular, particularly Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey; and Men Without Women, particularly Drive My Car)

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