This Week in Virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Vinny and the capsids answer listener questions about the definition of life, state vaccination laws, the basic science fun...

15 Jun 20141h 40min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The Twivsters discuss how reverse transcriptase encoded in the human genome might produce DNA copies of RNA vi...

8 Jun 20142h

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Matt Frieman Matt updates the TWiV team on MERS-coronavirus, and joins in a discussion of whether we should further regula...

1 Jun 20141h 47min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Guests: Julie Pfeiffer and Paul Duprex Vincent and Alan meet up with Julie and Paul at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, t...

26 Mai 20141h 34min

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: XJ Meng and Sarah McDonald Vincent meets up with XJ and Sarah at Virginia Tech to talk about their work on viruses of swine and rotaviruses. Links for this episode He...

17 Mai 20141h 28min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiV team discusses how skin scarification promotes a nonspecific immune response, and whether remaining stocks of sm...

11 Mai 20141h 42min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Jens H. Kuhn Jens speaks with the TWiV team about filoviruses, including the recent Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea. Links f...

4 Mai 20141h 50min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiV team reviews a meta-analysis of clinical trial reports on using Tamiflu for influenza, and suggestions on how to rescue U...

27 Apr 20141h 44min