This Week in Virology
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 1283
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
TWiV 435: Two virus particles walk into a cell
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVome discuss the blood virome of 8,420 humans, and thoroughly geek out on a paper about the number of …
TWiV 434: Live long and pupate
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The esteemed TWiVumvirate reveal the discovery of a new negative stranded RNA virus of wasps that regulates longevity and …
TWiV 433: Poops viruses and worms
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The lovely TWiV team explore evolution of our fecal virome, and the antiviral RNA interference response in the nematode C.…
TWiV 432: Conjunction junction, what's your function?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVites discuss Zika virus seroprevalence in wild monkeys, Zika virus mRNA vaccines, and a gamete fusion protein inhe…
TWiV 431: Niemann-Pick of the weak
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVirions reveal bacteriophage genes that control eukaryotic reproduction, and the biochemical basis for…
TWiV 430: The persistence of herpesvirus
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiX cabal discuss sexual transmission of Zika virus in mice, and how immune escape enables herpes simplex virus esc…
TWiV 429: Zika Experimental Science Team
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Katie Antony, Tom Friedrich, Emma Mohr, and David O'Connor
Vincent meets with members of team ZEST at the University of Wisconsin Madison to discuss their macaque mod…
TWiV 428: Lyse globally, protect locally
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVsters explain how superspreader bacteriophages release intact DNA from infected cells, and the role o…
TWiV Special: Vincent Munster on MERS-coronavirus and Ebolavirus
Guest: Vincent Munster
At the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, Vincent speaks with Vincent Munster about the work of his laboratory on MERS-coronavirus and E…
TWiV 427: It was a DURC and UV light
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVoids discuss the March for Science, the GOF moratorium, and a classic virology paper on mapping the gene order for…
TWiV 426: I'm Axl, and I'll be your cervid today
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The sages of TWiV explain how chronic wasting disease of cervids could be caused by spontaneous misfolding of prion protein, and …
TWiV 425: All picornaviruses, all the time
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVaniellos discuss a thermostable poliovirus empty capsid vaccine, and two cell genes that act as a swi…
TWiV 424: FLERVergnügen
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Trudy Rey
Trudy joins the the TWiVlords to discuss new tests for detecting prions in the blood, and ev…
TWiV 423: Dry, well formed, and light brown
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Jared Rice
The TWiV academia discuss induction of diarrhea by the capsid protein of an astrovirus, and…
TWiV 422: Watching the icosahedron drop
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVestigators wrap up 2016 with a discussion of the year's ten compelling virology stories.
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TWiV 421: Like flies on shot
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Nathan Letts
The TWiVnauts present another example of an infectious but replication incompetent vaccin…
TWiV 420: Orthogonal vectors
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV gurus describe how to use an orthogonal translation system to produce infectious but replication-inc…
TWiV 419: The selfless gene
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVrific gang reveal how integration of a virophage into the nuclear genome of a marine protozoan enhanc…
TWiV 418: Of mice and MERS
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVsters describe a new animal model for MERS coronavirus-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome, p…
TWiV Special: Gary Nabel on World AIDS Day 2016
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Gary Nabel
Vincent speaks with Gary Nabel, Chief Scientific Officer at Sanofi and former Director of the Vaccine Research Institute of NIAID, about his career and his …