This Week in Virology TWiV 355: Baby's first virome
Sep 20, 2015
01:57:33
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV team considers the effect of a Leishmaniavirus on the efficacy of drug treatment, and the human fecal virome and microbiome in twins during early infancy.
Links for this episode- Announcing mSphere 5:50
- Leishmania virus influences drug outcome (paper 1, paper 2) 25:15
- Human gut virome and microbiome in infants (Nat Med) 46:00
- Multiple displacement amplification (Wiki) 46:00
- Virome of adult twins (Nature) 49:15
- Illumination by Kevin Folta 1:31:00
- Folta story at RetractionWatch 1:41:40
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 355 9:40, 1:20:30
This episode is sponsored by ASMGAP 5:00
Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!
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