This Week in Virology

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Peter L. Salk Vincent meets up with Peter L. Salk to talk about development of the first poliovaccine, eradication of poliomyelitis, and Jonas Salk's 100th birth annive...

21 Apr 20141h 30min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiVmeisters answer listener email about the NEIDL, negative results, patenting MERS-coronavirus, human pa...

13 Apr 20141h 38min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Vincent, Alan, and Kathy reveal how a retrovirus in the human genome keeps embryonic stem cells in a pluripotent state, from where they can dif...

6 Apr 20141h 29min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy discuss disruption of the ccr5 gene in lymphocytes of patients infected with HIV-1. Links...

30 Mar 20141h 42min

Hosts: Glenn Rall, Ann Skalka, and Vincent Racaniello Glenn and Ann meet up with Vincent to talk about his career in science and science communication. Video of this episode - view at YouTube Send you...

23 Mar 20141h 18min

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Susan Baker and Thomas Gallagher Vincent meets up with Susan Baker and Tom Gallagher at Loyola University to talk about their work on coronaviruses. Links for this epi...

16 Mar 20141h 9min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit Guest: Eugene Koonin Vincent and Rich meet up with Eugene Koonin to talk about the central role of viruses in the evolution of all life. Links for this episod...

9 Mar 20142h 9min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiV team discusses recent cases of polio-like paralysis in California, and the virome of 14th century pal...

2 Mar 20142h