This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello
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Sep 25, 2016 • 1h 9min

TWiV 408: Boston Quammens

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Guest: David Quammen Four years after filming 'Threading the NEIDL', Vincent and Alan return to the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory BSL4 facility at Boston University where they speak with science writer David Quammen. Watch this episode at YouTube Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode David Quammen's website Spillover by David Quammen Threading the NEIDL (TWiV 200) The NEIDL at Boston University This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Sep 21, 2016 • 1h 23min

TWiV 407: Tar Heels go viral, part two

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Ralph Baric, Kristina De Paris, Tal Kafri, Helen Lazear, Mark Heise, and David Margolis In the second of two shows recorded at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Vincent meets up with faculty members to talk about how they got into science, their research on RNA viruses, and what they would be doing if they were not scientists. View video of this episode at YouTube Become a patron of TWiV! This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Sep 18, 2016 • 1h 11min

TWiV 407: Tar Heels go viral, part one

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Dirk Dittmer, Cary Moody, Nat Moorman, Nancy Raab-Traub, Lishan Su, and Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque In the first of two shows recorded at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Vincent meets up with faculty members to talk about how they got into science, their research on DNA viruses, and what they would be doing if they were not scientists. View video of this episode at YouTube Become a patron of TWiV! This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Sep 11, 2016 • 1h 38min

TWiV 406: Pow, right in the enteroids!

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiV team discussed eye infections caused by Zika virus, failure of Culex mosquitoes to transmit the virus, and replication of norovirus in stem cell derived enteroids. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Florida DOH daily Zika update Congress fails again on Zika (NY Times) Culex pipiens does not support Zika virus replication (EID) Zika virus in the eye (Cell Rep) Norovirus replication in enteroids (Science) Norovirus replication in B cells (TWiV 312) Baylor press release Norovirus replication in B cells confirmed (Antiviral Res) Letters read on TWiV 406 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Weekly Science Picks Alan - Infective PerspectiveDickson - The Living RiverRich - Freddy Mercury around the Sun Kathy - A Day in PompeiiVincent - Spraying Pesticides Listener Picks Ricardo - Why the metric system mattersEric - The Giving Plague by David Brin Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Sep 4, 2016 • 1h 57min

TWiV 405: All the world's a phage

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler The TWiXers discuss a study on vertical transmission of Zika virus by Aedes mosquitoes, and uncovering Earth's virome by mining existing metagenomic sequence data. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Roger Tsien, 64 (UC San Diego Health) CDC running out of Zika money (NYTimes) Zika virus in Miami mosquitoes (NYTimes) No Zika virus in Rio Olympics (NYTimes) Vertical transmission of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti (AJTMH) Uncovering Earth's virome (Nature) Image credit (Global water volume) Letters read on TWiV 405 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. 0:25, 58:55 This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Weekly Science Picks Alan - The VizziesDickson - NASA Spinoff Kathy - Maps.meVincent - Zika: The Emerging Epidemic by Donald McNeil Listener Picks Tarwin - Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (paper or Kindle)Bodham - The start of scientific publishing, 1665 Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Aug 28, 2016 • 2h 6min

TWiV 404: Not found

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit From the twiVivants, follow up on FluMist and Zoster vaccines, Zika virus update, and isolation of a multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode FluMist problem (FDA) DA Henderson obituary (NY Times) DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator (TWiV Special) Efficacy of VZV vaccine (Ther Adv Vaccines) Zika virus burden, Puerto Rico (JAMA) Zika virus in Miami Beach (STAT) Congenital brain anomalies and Zika virus (Radiology) Congenital Zika syndrome with arthrogryposis (BMJ) Multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes (Cell Host Microbe) Breaking rules of infection (NPR) Image credit Letters read on TWiV 404 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Weekly Science Picks Alan - Sally Le PageDickson - Comfortably Numb by Jamie Dupuis Rich - Learned HelplessnessVincent - Virus by Marilyn Roossinck Listener Picks OneTime - The Stranglers - Old CodgerSteve - A Poem About Pronunciation Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Aug 23, 2016 • 54min

TWiV Special: DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator

Donald "D.A." Henderson, a physician, educator, and epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox, died at 87 years of age on Aug. 19, 2016. Vincent was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak with DA Henderson in 2014 about his career, the smallpox eradication effort, and what it means for the eradication of polio. Become a patron of TWiV! This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Aug 21, 2016 • 1h 36min

TWiV 403: It's not easy being vaccine

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit The TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection conferred by Zostavax, a new adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Tribunal orders release of PACE trial data (Valerie Eliot Smith) Our request for PACE trial data (virology blog) GM mosquito release on ballot (NPR) Florida Keys Mosquito Control District on TWiV #111 Cold chain and virus free plant based polio vaccine (Plant Biotechnol J) Disappointing flu vaccine effectiveness (CBC) ACIP votes down use of LAIV (CDC) LAIV as effective as inactivated flu vaccine (Ann Int Med) Flumist does work (NPR) Declining effectiveness of zoster vaccine (J Inf Dis) Efficacy of adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine (NEJM) Risk of zoster from vaccine (J Inf Dis) Image credit: ViralZone Letters read on TWiV 403 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Weekly Science Picks Alan - To Scale: The Solar SystemRich - Route 66 Goes SolarVincent - Race for a Zika Vaccine by Siddhartha Mukherjee Listener Picks Bohdan - Penn and Teller on VaccinationsBill - Connections, Episode 1 Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Aug 14, 2016 • 1h 58min

TWiV 402: The plight of the bumblebee

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Polio returns to Nigeria, Zika virus spreads in Miami, and virus infection of plants attracts bumblebees for pollination, from the virus gentlepeople at TWiV. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Marian Horzinek, 80 (ProMedMail) Polio in Nigeria (Atlantic, Stat, ProMedMail) Zika virus spreads in Miami (NYTimes) More Zika virus vaccines (Science) Back to work on Zika, Congress ! (Asbury Park Press) Lack of funding will stymie Zika vaccines (Wash Examiner) FDA OK on genetically modified mosquitoes (FDA) CMV attracts aphid vectors (TWiV #70) CMV attracts pollinating bumblebees (PLoS Path) Earth dwarfed by solar flare (jpg) Letters read on TWiV 402 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Weekly Science Picks Alan - Solar storm that launched US space weather scienceRich - Data storage on DNA Dickson - Perseid meteor show liveVincent - In the Company of Microbes by Elio Schaechter Listener Picks Neva - I Contain Multitudes by Ed YongAmanda - American Gut Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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Aug 7, 2016 • 1h 59min

TWiV 401: Vector victorious

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Zika virus spreads in the USA, a Zika virus DNA vaccine goes into phase I trials, and how mosquito bites enhance virus replication and disease, from the friendly TWiFolk Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Beverly Griffin, 86 (1 2 3) Zika virus in the US (CDC) Zika virus spreading in Miami (CDC) Zika virus in Florida (NY Times) NIH begins phase I trial of Zika virus DNA vaccine (NIAID) Mosquito salive enhances West Nile replication in mice (J Virol) Mosquito bites enhance virus infection (Immunity) Photo of A. aegyptii and mouse ears from Marieke Pingen Letters read on TWiV 401 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100. Weekly Science Picks Alan - The DoubleclicksKathy - WHO ZIKV app and ZIKV Giant Microbe Dickson - Photographer Rosamond PurcellVincent - Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond Listener Picks Ricardo - Portugal Four Days on Renewable EnergyFatma - DeNovo: Predicting virus-host protein interactionsStephen - How mosquitoes use six needles to suck your blood Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

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