TWiV 468: Zika by the slice

Amy joins the TWiV team to talk about her career and her work on Zika virus neurotropism using embryonic mouse organotypic brain slice cultures.

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

Guest: Amy Rosenfeld

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Links for this episode

• Grad students face tax hike (Nature)
• House voted to bankrupt grad students (NYTimes)
• Neurotropism of early and late Zika virus isolates (PNAS)
• Zika virus blocks the neuron road (virology blog)
• Letters read on TWiV 468

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