This Week in Virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Gertrud Radu Gertrud joins the TWiVoners to review how dengue virus infection of mosquitoes alters blood feeding behavior, and gene therapy as pr...

15 Apr 20121h 44min

The TWiValians meet up with Tyler Sharp for a discussion on the Epidemic Intelligence Service and controlling dengue. Links for this episode: 2010 dengue epidemic in Puerto Rico Marshall Islands deng...

8 Apr 20121h 39min

A discussion of avian influenza H5N1 transmission experiments in ferrets and novel bunyaviruses at the 2012 Spring Conference of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, Ireland. Links for this...

1 Apr 20121h 5min

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about MS, CFS, EBV, B cells, virii, influenza B, scientific papers, and more. Links for this episode: More than one way to skin a virus (comments) Aerobi...

24 Mar 20121h 26min

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss herpes simplex encephalitis in children with innate immune deficiency, and the local response to microneedle-based influenza skin immunization. Links for this episode: ...

18 Mar 20121h 19min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich consider whether pet dogs might transmit human noroviruses, and an RNA virus microRNA that might be involved in oncogenesi...

11 Mar 20121h 25min

The TWiVites discuss seroevidence for human infection with avian influenza H5N1, and the discovery of a new influenza virus in Guatemalan bats. Links for this episode: Seroevidence for human H5N1 inf...

4 Mar 20121h 57min

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler Vincent and Kathy discuss how a virus may cause disease distant from its replication site, then review a day in the life of a senior microbiology professor...

27 Feb 20121h 42min