This Week in Virology

TWiV 54: Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary

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Created on Monday, 19 October 2009 01:18

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Lynn Enquist

Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way he did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses.

Links for this episode:

• Holliday junction
• Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA
• Restriction enzymes
• Movies of herpesvirus movement in nerve cells
• The 'other' Enquist lab
• Can you find the TWiV 54 hosts in this photo?

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