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Dennis writes: Dear Vincent, I am glad you had a chance to get a glimpse of the BSL4 world. You might remember that I have been trying for 1 1/2 years to get you to see the Galveston National Laboratory, a facility with an actual ACTIVE program and a number of... Read More 
From my microbiology-associated blog, where I discuss teaching and research in microbiology at a small liberal arts institution.
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Small Things ConsideredThe purpose of Small Things Considered is to share appreciation for the width and depth of the microbial activities on this pla... Read More 
A new coronavirus has been isolated from two individuals with severe respiratory illness. It is different from the SARS coronavirus, but health officials are nonetheless preparing for a rapid response should the virus be detected elsewhere.
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We celebrated the 200th episode of TWiV by visiting the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center, where we met with Elke, Paul, and Ron to talk about building and working in a BSL4 facility. It was an amazing visit that will be fully documented in an...
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Thirty years ago this month I arrived in the Department of Microbiology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) to start my own laboratory. Thirty is not only a multiple of ten (which we tend to celebrate), but also a long time to be at one place. It’s clearly time to r...
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Luis writes: Hi TWiVers! I am writing to you this time because I have just read a short report in “El Pais” (the highest-circulation daily newspaper in our country) referring to the fact that five “exotic” mosquitos are establishing a permanen... Read More Nels writes: Dear Vincent, A note of gratitude to you and your crew for generously “interrogating” my recent paper on the experimental evolution of vaccinia virus. BTW, it was evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen (not Richard Dawkins) who proposed an... Read More 
Should you ever visit Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York, be sure to go see the food blender that was used to carry out the well known Hershey-Chase experiment. The blender is located in the Szybalski Reading Room of the Carnegie Library. After entering the front door of the ...
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This parasite interacts with many host proteins and modifies the expression of many more genes creating an interactome with almost 3000 links. In addition it exchanges substrates and metabolites with the host, modifying many biochemical parameters. T.Gondii disrupts multiple signalling network...
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Todd writes:
Hello Dixon and Vincent! Your research and real life experience is slowly getting summarized by researchers so that it can be understood by reporters (aka those who Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson explain how a nematod... Read More |
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