TWiV 195: They did it in the hot tub

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Created on Monday, 13 August 2012 02:08

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Ken Stedman

The complete TWiV team meets with Ken Stedman to discuss the discovery in Boiling Spring Lake of a DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus.

Right-click to download TWiV 195 (77 MB .mp3, 107 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Novel virus from an extreme environment (Biol Direct, virology blog)
• Lassen Volcanic National Park
• Tombusviridae, Circoviridae (ViralZone)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 195

Weekly Science Picks

Ken - The Edge of Life trailer and Facebook page
Dickson - The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte
Alan - SEMs of insects and spiders via Steve Gschmeissner
Rich - Curiosity Has Landed (Wiki mission summary)
Vincent - Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Lance - The Vaccine Confidence Project and Immune response video (YouTube)
Anat - Beautiful Science

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TWiV 194: Five postdocs in North America

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Created on Monday, 06 August 2012 03:39

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Matthew Daugherty, Jondavid deJong, Helen Lazear, Stefan Oliver, and Cara Pager.

Vincent returns to Madison, Wisconsin and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers.

Right-click to download TWiV 194 (69 MB .mp3, 94 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• TWiV 189: Five postdocs in Glasgow
• ASM at the USA Science and Engineering Festival
• ASV 2012 at Madison, WI
• Photographs of ASV 2012
• TWiV on Facebook

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TWiV 193: Live at ASV in Madison

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Created on Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:14

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Carolyn Coyne, and Sara Sawyer

Vincent, Rich, Carolyn, and Sara recorded TWiV at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Madison, where they discussed genetic conflict between viral and human genes, and how the placenta protects the fetus against viral infection.

Links for this episode:

• ASV 2012 at Madison, WI
• Photographs of ASV 2012
• Rock band Herpetic Legion plays at ASV 2012
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 193

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Vincent - Biochemistry Revealed

Listener Pick of the Week

Matlock - The BioDigital Human
Matt - Scientists create jellyfish from rat cells

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TWiV 192: Viral tertulia

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Created on Sunday, 22 July 2012 19:57

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about bioinformatics, insects, influenza, laboratory classes, commensalism, reproducibility of data, and more.

Right-click to download TWiV 192 (84 MB .mp3, 117 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Vaccinia virus sequence from patient with vaccine complication (pdf)
• The evolution of intellectual freedom (thanks, Robin!)
• Free access to British scientific research (Guardian)
• xTAG respiratory viral panel
• Houston rabies case (Statesman)
• Tertulia (Wikipedia)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 192

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - The Microbial Olympics (supplementary information)
Rich - PharmaJet needle free injection system
Vincent - Microbes and Evolution by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy (paperback and Kindle)

Listener Pick of the Week

Varun - Agile Gene by Matt Ridley
Sizun - Plague Inc
Ricardo - TED-ED
Kristopher - Ed Yong on Econtalk

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TWiV 191: When two rights make a wrong

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Created on Sunday, 15 July 2012 17:04

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Nissin Moussatche

Nissin joins the TWiV crew to discuss an outbreak of lethal disease among Cambodian children, and recombination among attenuated herpesvirus vaccines leading to pathogenic viruses.

Right-click to download TWiV 191 (71 MB .mp3, 99 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Outbreak in Cambodia (CNN)
• Pathogen mix in Cambodian illness (ProMedMail)
• Undiagnosed illness in Cambodia (WHO)
• Enterovirus 71 (virology blog)
• Recombination among attenuated vaccines (Science)
• An outbreak of irony (Ed Yong)
• Infectious laryngotracheitis
• Gallid herpesvirus 1 (Wikipedia)
• Iltovirus (ViralZone)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 191

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - H5N1 genetic changes inventory
Rich - Mythbusters: Diet Coke and Mentos (YouTube channel)
Nissin - The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams, and Tereza Batista, Tired of War by Jorge Amado
Vincent - FAQ: The 'snake bite' portion of your thesis defense

Listener Pick of the Week

Gopal - All's not fair in science and publishing
Luis - The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin (Nature review)
Sven - Visualizing information flow in science

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TWiV 190: The second ferret of the Apocalypse

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Created on Sunday, 01 July 2012 14:18

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review selection of influenza H5N1 viruses that can transmit among ferrets by aerosol.

Right-click to download TWiV 188 (63 MB .mp3, 97 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Airborne transmission of H5N1 among ferrets (Science)
• Potential for H5N1 evolution (Science)
• H5N1 (Science)
• The ferrets of fear
• Jim's podcast list (pdf)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 190

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - Wind map
Vincent - The A-Z of Epidemiology (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Kristoffer - How to read a paper
Neva - Electricity from viruses

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TWiV 189: Five postdocs in Glasgow

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Created on Sunday, 24 June 2012 19:52

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vanessa Cowton, Mary Holton, Mark Robinson, Swetha Vijayakrishnan, and Gavin Wilkie

Vincent returns to the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow and meets with postdocs to discuss their science and their careers.

Right-click to download TWiV 189 (52 MB .mp3, 72 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Stop CMV
• Photos of my Glasgow visit (Facebook and VirusTalk)
• TWiV on Facebook

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TWiV 188: Haggis, single malt, and viruses

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Created on Sunday, 17 June 2012 01:11

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Massimo Palmarini, John MacLauchlan, Emma Thomson, and Hande Harmanci.

Vincent travels to Scotland to meet with members of the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow to discuss their work on hepatitis C virus and jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.

Right-click to download TWiV 188 (78 MB .mp3, 108 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Aaron Shatkin, 77 (virology blog)
• Photos of my Glasgow visit (Facebook and VirusTalk)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 188

Weekly Science Picks

Vincent - Microbe art

Listener Pick of the Week

Judi - Cell Imaging (Mac App Store)

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TWiV 187: The mummy

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Created on Monday, 11 June 2012 01:55

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Vincent and Rich discuss recovery of a hepatitis B viral genome from a 16th century Korean mummy, and personal omics profiling of an individual over a 14 month period.

Right-click to download TWiV 187 (64 MB .mp3, 88 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Tracing HBV to the 16th century (Hepatology)
• HBV on TWiV
• Precautions with ancient DNA (Science)
• Personal omics profile over 14 months (Cell)
• A geneticist's research turns personal (NY Times)
• Mike Snyder on Futures in Biotech
• The DASH diet
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 187

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - The Checklist by Atul Gawande
Vincent - Artologica

Listener Pick of the Week

David - Cracking your genetic code (Nova)
Josh - The nuclearization of biology is a threat to health and security (pdf)

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TWiV 186: From Buda to stump grinding

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Created on Sunday, 03 June 2012 16:50

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiV chiefs tackle reader email about how to pronounce Buda, Texas, grinding tree stumps, and much more.

Right-click to download TWiV 186 (82 MB .mp3, 114 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.

Links for this episode:

• Detecting antibodies or antigens by ELISA
• Peter Wildy Prize
• Biosafety levels
• Baltimore classification at Viral Zone
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 186

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - World Wide Lightning Location Network
Rich - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Vincent - The Ocelloid

Listener Pick of the Week

lafrenchfille - whatshouldwecallgradschool
Neva - Antiviral drugs by Carl Zimmer
Sergio - APSnet

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