
This Week in Virology TWiV 378: Herpes plays DUBstep
Feb 28, 2016
01:58:57
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Guests: Greg Smith and Mark Fuccio
Greg Smith joins the TWiVirate to reveal how his lab discovered a switch that controls herpesvirus neuroinvasion, and then we visit the week's news about Zika virus.
Links for this episode
- Dynamic ubiquitination drives herpesvirus neuroinvasion (PNAS)
- Releasing Zika virus data in real time (Nature)
- Zika virus infection and stillbirths (PLoS NTD)
- Zika virus infection, imported, Italy (Eurosurveillance)
- Letters read on TWiV 378
This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast
Weekly Science PicksAlan - Science byline counting projectDickson - Bill Nye on climate changeVincent - Zdziarski's blog of things (Apple's motion to vacate)Greg - Atlas, the next generationKathy - Sources of Chaco woodMark - How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns
Listener PickBohdan - The real reason for brains
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