This Week in Virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, T. Jack Morris, James Van Etten, and Charles Wood Vincent travels to the University of Nebraska to meet with members of the Nebraska Center for Virology and discuss their work on algal viruses, plant viruses, HIV and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus. Links for this episode: The Nebraska Center for Viology Behind the scenes at TWiV 202 TWiV on Facebook Weekly Science Picks Charles - Rhabdovirus associated with hemorrhagic fever (PLoS Path)Vincent - Bacteriophage graffiti (jpg) Listener Pick of the Week Bob - Remembering Penny PinneoJanet - Penn and Teller on vaccinations (YouTube) Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy answer reader email about rabies, xenotransplantation, poliovirus, Ph.D. programs, mosquitoes, and much more. Links for this episode: Mattias Schnell Novel rhabdovirus from Africa (Plos Path) Milwaukee protocol (Wikipedia) How lethal is rabies virus? (virology blog) Issues with polio eradication (J Gen Virol) Vaccine-derived polioviruses (J Inf Dis) Global pandemics with Hidde Ploegh (Vimeo) Polio vs Bin Laden (Alan Dove) Letters read on TWiV 201 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Wallace OnlineRich - World Rabies DayKathy - Yo-yos in spaceDickson - The Art in ScienceVincent - The Podcasters Studio Listener Pick of the Week Wink - DuckDuckGoJosh - Introduction to Solid State Chemistry Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Elke Mühlberger, Paul Duprex, and Ron Corley Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 200th episode of TWiV by visiting the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center, where they meet with Elke, Paul, and Ron to talk about building and working in a BSL4 facility. Links for this episode: The NEIDL NEIDL goes public (BU Today) Biosafety levels (Wikipedia) Select agents (Wikipedia) NEIDL stalled (Boston Business J) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 200 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Dance your Ph.D.Rich - Angel of Death by Gareth WilliamsVincent - Why herpesvirus is good for you (Virgin lab) Listener Pick of the Week Luis - VBORNET maps Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and W. Ian Lipkin Vincent and Ian review a multicenter blinded analysis which finds no association between chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and XMRV or polytropic murine leukemia virus. Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes, at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Multicenter blinded analysis of CFS and XMRV/pMLV (mBio) Press release on multicenter study (pdf) Press conference webcast TWiV on Facebook Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy discuss recent outbreaks of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Yosemite National Park and novel swine-origin influenza in the US midwest, and isolation of the Heartland virus from two patients in Missouri with severe febrile illness. Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes, at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite (ProMedMail) Hantavirus in Yosemite (CDC) CDC page on hantavirus Summary of hantavirus outbreak (Avian Flu Diary) Swine-origin influenza outbreak in midwest (MMWR) Lyn Finelli interview on swine-origin H3N2 (Microbeworld) Transmission of vH3N2 in ferrets (PNAS) New phlebovirus from Missouri (NEJM) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 199 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Insane in the Chromatophores (Vimeo)Rich - Golden Goose AwardsKathy - Euler's Disk (YouTube)Vincent - Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein Listener Pick of the Week Adam - Leigh Van Valen Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review fatal avian influenza virus in harbor seals, and poxvirus deployment of genomic accordions to counter antiviral defenses. Links for this episode: Avian influenza virus in harbor seals (mBio) Poxvirus genomic accordions (mBio) Red Queen hypothesis (Wikipedia) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 198 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Getting Better: 200 Years of MedicineRich - Khan AcademyKathy - Vi HartVincent - Tweet Keeper Listener Pick of the Week Diane - The Way We Fall by Megan CreweStephen - Amateur Micrography Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Philip I. Marcus Vincent travels to the University of Connecticut to meet up with Professor Philip I. Marcus to discuss his development of the single cell cloning technique in the early 1950s. Links for this episode: Cloning with X-irradiated feeder cells (PNAS) Philip I. Marcus in the lab (jpg) Cloning with capillary tubes (jpg) Cloning platform (jpg) VRR holding 1950s glass plate of clones (jpg) HeLa clones (jpg) Cloning cylinder (jpg) TWiV on Facebook Coming soon: video of this episode Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, Mark Stenglein, and Joseph DeRisi The TWiVites meet with Mark Stenglein and Joseph DeRisi to discuss their discovery of a novel arenavirus in snakes with inclusion body disease. Links for this episode: Highly divergent arenaviruses in snakes (mBio) Taryn's sick snake (NPR) Assemblathon Faculty position in virology, Columbia U. Petridish.org TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 196 Weekly Science Picks Mark - The Slow Mo Guys (Fly eats fly)Dickson - I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor by Shel SilversteinAlan - MMWR: First 30 years onlineRich - Giant python in Everglades and California Academy of SciencesKathy - Darwin finch genome sequenceVincent - Microbiology at Mt. Sinai Listener Pick of the Week Renato - Security Now podcastRobin - The WeatherChad - Rare protozoan from sludge (ScienceDaily) Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Ken Stedman The complete TWiV team meets with Ken Stedman to discuss the discovery in Boiling Spring Lake of a DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus. Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Novel virus from an extreme environment (Biol Direct, virology blog) Lassen Volcanic National Park Tombusviridae, Circoviridae (ViralZone) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 195 Weekly Science Picks Ken - The Edge of Life trailer and Facebook pageDickson - The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward TufteAlan - SEMs of insects and spiders via Steve GschmeissnerRich - Curiosity Has Landed (Wiki mission summary)Vincent - Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror (YouTube) Listener Pick of the Week Lance - The Vaccine Confidence Project and Immune response video (YouTube)Anat - Beautiful Science Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Matthew Daugherty, Jondavid deJong, Helen Lazear, Stefan Oliver, and Cara Pager. Vincent returns to Madison, Wisconsin and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers. Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: TWiV 189: Five postdocs in Glasgow ASM at the USA Science and Engineering Festival ASV 2012 at Madison, WI Photographs of ASV 2012 TWiV on Facebook Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.