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TWiV Live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans (MWV49)

In episode 49 of MicrobeWorld Video, Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncogenesis by human papillomaviruses, the amazing collection of bacteriophages on the planet, and the evolution of genetic conflict between virus and host.

 

Links for this episode:

• Papillomavirus E6 proteins (Virology)
• Diversity of mycobacteriophages (PLoS One)
• Adaptive evolution of tetherin (J Virology)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 135

Weekly Science Picks

Roger - Atomic structure of adenovirus by cryo-EM (Science)
Harmit - Syncytin knockout mice show role for endogenous retroviral gene (PNAS)
Vincent - Free science, one paper at a time by David Dobbs

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark  - Shot by Shot

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