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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.

Science Natural Sciences Life Sciences
Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
86 minutes
Episodes
1282
Years Active
2008 - 2025
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TWiV 259: Windows into the soul of a cell

TWiV 259: Windows into the soul of a cell

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guest: Jaquelin Dudley

Vincent and Rich join Jackie at the University of Texas, Austin to talk about her work on mouse mammary tumor virus.

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01:26:53  |   Sat 16 Nov 2013
TWiV 258: Hedging our bats

TWiV 258: Hedging our bats

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich ConditKathy Spindler, and Matt Frieman

Matt joins the TWiV team to discuss the discovery of a SARS-like coronavirus in bats that can infect human cells, a…

01:25:51  |   Mon 11 Nov 2013
TWiV 257: Caveat mTOR

TWiV 257: Caveat mTOR

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team consider how the kinase mTOR modulates the antibody response to provide broad protection agains…

01:41:47  |   Sun 03 Nov 2013
TWiV 256: How mice say nodavirus

TWiV 256: How mice say nodavirus

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review two papers that present evidence for RNA interference as an an…

01:36:17  |   Sun 27 Oct 2013
TWiV 255: Longhorns go viral

TWiV 255: Longhorns go viral

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guests: Robert Krug and Christopher Sullivan

Vincent and Rich visit the University of Texas at Austin and meet up with Bob and Chris to talk about their work…

01:14:07  |   Mon 21 Oct 2013
TWiV 254: Ninety-nine macaques on the wall

TWiV 254: Ninety-nine macaques on the wall

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy review clearance of simian immunodeficiency virus infection from macaques by immunizatio…

01:35:13  |   Sun 13 Oct 2013
TWiV 253: I don't know anything about sorghum

TWiV 253: I don't know anything about sorghum

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

In this second consecutive all-email episode, the complete TWiV team reads questions and comments from listen…

02:19:31  |   Sun 06 Oct 2013
TWiV 252: Who read the last email?

TWiV 252: Who read the last email?

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team reads email from listeners about anti-vaccine activists, a career in microbiology, pla…

01:40:33  |   Sun 29 Sep 2013
TWiV 251: Don't kiss the camel

TWiV 251: Don't kiss the camel

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV crew reviews work on MERS-coronavirus, including serological studies in camels, production …

01:38:29  |   Fri 20 Sep 2013
TWiV 250: Wookie viruses

TWiV 250: Wookie viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Robert Garcea

Vincent and Robert recorded this episode at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, where they talked about polyomaviruses.

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01:32:15  |   Sun 15 Sep 2013
TWiV 249: An inordinate fondness for viruses

TWiV 249: An inordinate fondness for viruses

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, Alan and Rich discuss an estimate of the number of different mammalian viruses on Earth.

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01:30:53  |   Mon 09 Sep 2013
TWiV 248: TWiP infects TWiV

TWiV 248: TWiP infects TWiV

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich reveal how experiments with a malaria parasite lead to the introduction of a mammalian retrovirus into birds.

01:43:11  |   Sun 01 Sep 2013
TWiV 247: Today's weather in virology

TWiV 247: Today's weather in virology

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Special guest: Ian Lipkin

Ian joins Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy to describe how his laboratory is searching for the origin of …

01:50:23  |   Mon 26 Aug 2013
TWiV 246: Pandora, pandemics, and privacy

TWiV 246: Pandora, pandemics, and privacy

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy discuss the huge Pandoravirus, virologists planning H7N9 gain of function experiments, and limite…

01:26:27  |   Sun 18 Aug 2013
TWiV 245: Writing Principles of Virology

TWiV 245: Writing Principles of Virology

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: S. Jane Flint, Lynn Enquist, Glenn Rall, and Ann Skalka

The authors of the popular textbook Principles of Virology discuss how the book was conceived and written.

Lin…
01:03:29  |   Sun 11 Aug 2013
TWiV 244: Back in the CVVR

TWiV 244: Back in the CVVR

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Guests: Dan Barouch and Jeff Teigler

This episode of TWiV was recorded before an audience at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where Vincent and Alan s…

01:22:33  |   Mon 05 Aug 2013
TWiV 243: Live from ASV at Penn State

TWiV 243: Live from ASV at Penn State

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Rebecca Dutch and Christiane Wobus

On this episode of TWiV, which was recorded before a large enthusiastic audience at the annual me…

01:09:49  |   Sun 28 Jul 2013
TWiV 242: I want my MMTV

TWiV 242: I want my MMTV

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson DespommierAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The complete TWiV team talks about how two different viruses shape the evolution of an essential housekeeping…

01:33:23  |   Sat 20 Jul 2013
TWiV 241: The ferret looks ill

TWiV 241: The ferret looks ill

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloAlan DoveRich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Kathy review how human placental trophoblasts confer viral resistance via exosome-mediated delivery of mi…

01:41:07  |   Sun 14 Jul 2013
TWiV 240: Virology in Vermont

TWiV 240: Virology in Vermont

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Markus Thali and Jason Botten

Vincent travels to the University of Vermont to talk with Markus and Jason about their work on HIV, influenza virus, arenaviruses and ha…

01:14:17  |   Wed 03 Jul 2013
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