TWiV 407: Tar Heels go viral, part two

TWiV 407: Tar Heels go viral, part two

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Ralph Baric, Kristina De Paris, Tal Kafri, Helen Lazear, Mark Heise, and David Margolis

In the second of two shows recorded at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Vincent meets up with faculty members to talk about how they got into science, their research on RNA viruses, and what they would be doing if they were not scientists.

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