This Week in Virology
Vincent Racaniello
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.
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Feb 5, 2012 • 2h 32min
TWiV 169: Epidemiology causes conclusions (p<0.05)
Michael and the TWiV team review epidemiology basics, including fatality ratios. Links for this episode: Michael's blog and podcast Epidemiology literature critique (PowerPoint) Seven mistakes in epidemiology (ETE) Snow cholera map TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 169
Jan 29, 2012 • 1h 38min
TWiV 168: Super CalTech prophylaxis and ferret runny noses
Welkin joins the TWiV team for a discussion of HIV prophlaxis using vectored antibodies, and the influenza H5N1 virus studies in ferrets that were not redacted. Links for this episode: Vectored HIV immunoprophylaxis (Nature) Vectored immunoprophylaxis - the Movie (YouTube) Adeno-associated virus (Wikipedia) In vitro evolution of H5N1 towards human receptor specificity (Virology) Endogenous viral genes non-essential in chicken (Nature) Rates of HIV transmission per coital act (J Inf Dis) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 168
Jan 22, 2012 • 1h 28min
TWiV 167: It starts with a cough
The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.
Jan 15, 2012 • 1h 38min
TWiV 166: Breaking and entering
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses. Links for this episode: Niemann-Pick C1 is entry factor for HCV (Nature Med) Ebola virus entry requires Niemann-Pick C1 (Nature one, two) Nectin-4 is measles virus epithelial receptor (Nature, PLoS Pathogens) An exit strategy for measles virus (Science) On this day in history TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 166
Jan 8, 2012 • 1h 42min
TWiV 165: The email zone
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan answer listener questions about XMRV, cytomegalovirus, latency, shingles vaccine, myxomavirus and rabbits, and more.
Jan 1, 2012 • 1h 39min
TWiV 164: Six steps forward, four steps back
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review ten compelling virology stories of 2011.
Dec 25, 2011 • 1h 42min
TWiV 163: What Rous wrought
Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review the 100 year old finding by Peyton Rous of a transmissible sarcoma of chickens, a discovery that ushered in the era of tumor virology.
Dec 18, 2011 • 1h 33min
TWiV 162: Transcription
Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template.
Dec 11, 2011 • 1h 58min
TWiV #161 - Concerto in B
Vincent, Rich, Alan and Gabriel review the production of antibodies by B cells, and how high affinity antibodies are selected in the germinal centers of lymph nodes.
Dec 4, 2011 • 1h 49min
TWiV #160 - Moore tumor viruses
The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus.
