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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 Life Sciences Natural Sciences
Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
86 minutes
Episodes
1281
Years Active
2008 - 2025
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TWiV #40 - Tamiflu in the water

TWiV #40 - Tamiflu in the water

 

In episode 40 of "This Week in Virology", hosts Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove consider Reston ebolavirus in swine, historical perspective of H1N1 influenza virus emergence and…

01:10:46  |   Sun 12 Jul 2009
TWiV #39 - Virus structure

TWiV #39 - Virus structure

In episode 39 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier discuss virus structure and answer listener questions.

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00:53:15  |   Mon 06 Jul 2009
TWiV #38 - Measles

TWiV #38 - Measles

In episode 38 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello and Glenn Rall chat about koi herpesvirus, H1N1 influenza vaccine produced in insect cells, attack by a rabid raccoon, and measles.

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01:31:21  |   Sun 28 Jun 2009
TWiV #37 - Open access

TWiV #37 - Open access

In episode 37 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove and guest Eric Freed talk about vesivirus contamination of bioreactors, pandemic influenza, maximizing the effect of vacci…

01:14:26  |   Sun 21 Jun 2009
TWiV #36 - Pandemic

TWiV #36 - Pandemic

In episode 36 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier and guest Hamish Young discuss the 2009 influenza pandemic, first 2009 H1N1 vaccine, hunting mosquitoes wi…

01:33:13  |   Mon 15 Jun 2009
TWiV #35 - Much achoo about nothing

TWiV #35 - Much achoo about nothing

In episode 35 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier and guest Richard Kessin talk about Lujo virus, a new arenavirus, influenza, WHO rewriting pandemic rules…

01:22:48  |   Sun 07 Jun 2009
TWiV #34 - Arsenic and facemasks

TWiV #34 - Arsenic and facemasks

In episode 34 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and guest Stephen Morse discuss progressive vaccinia in a smallpox vaccinee, arsenic and influenza in mice, facemasks and…

01:18:09  |   Sun 31 May 2009
TWiV #33 - Live in Philly

TWiV #33 - Live in Philly

Vincent, Alan, Dick, and Raul Andino live at ASM discussed cytomegalovirus infection and blood pressure, restriction of avian influenza viral replication at low temperature, first isolation of West N…

01:14:17  |   Sun 24 May 2009
TWiV #32 - Influenza in silico

TWiV #32 - Influenza in silico

In episode 32 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove and guest Raul Rabadan converse about polio survivors in iron lungs, bocavirus, structure of mimivirus, and genome sequenc…

01:13:34  |   Sun 17 May 2009
TWiV #31 - Fever plus cough or sore throat

TWiV #31 - Fever plus cough or sore throat

In episode 31 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier and guest Marc Pelletier summarize the past week’s influenza H1N1 activity, and discuss parvovirus infecti…

01:13:34  |   Sun 10 May 2009
TWiV Special - Dr. Peter Palese

TWiV Special - Dr. Peter Palese

On this special episode of This Week in Virology Vincent Racaniello and Dr. Peter Palese, noted influenza expert, discuss the origin and pandemic potential of the new H1N1 influenza virus.

00:40:15  |   Wed 06 May 2009
TWiV #30 - A/Mexico/4108/2009 (H1N1)

TWiV #30 - A/Mexico/4108/2009 (H1N1)

In episode 30 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier and guest Hamish Young focus on the new H1N1 influenza virus, which originated in swine and is likely to …

01:07:42  |   Sun 03 May 2009
TWiV #29 - Swine flu returns

TWiV #29 - Swine flu returns

In episode 29 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove and Dick Despommier talk about insect and human dengue virus host proteins, equine vaccine for WNV and EEEV, return of swi…

01:10:52  |   Mon 27 Apr 2009
TWiV #28 - SARS

TWiV #28 - SARS

In episode 28 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier, and Eric F. Donaldson discuss a new test for influenza H5N1, poliovirus in Minnesota, Koala retrovi…

01:14:35  |   Sun 19 Apr 2009
TWiV #27 - Leaving latency

TWiV #27 - Leaving latency

In episode 27 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier, and Saul Silverstein revisit an ebola virus needlestick accident, and discuss the role of TLR3 in format…

01:10:59  |   Sat 04 Apr 2009
TWiV #26 - Poxviruses

TWiV #26 - Poxviruses

In episode 26 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove and guest Rich Condit converse about induction of polyomavirus replication in multiple sclerosis patients treated with the…

01:15:27  |   Sun 29 Mar 2009
TWiV #25 - Viral evolution

TWiV #25 - Viral evolution

In episode 25 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove and guest Luis Villarreal discuss rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebola virus and West Nile vir…

01:07:12  |   Sun 22 Mar 2009
TWiV #24 - Viroids

TWiV #24 - Viroids

Vincent, Alan, and Hamish Young discuss bacteriophages in viral vaccines, enteroviruses and diabetes, inhibition of Hendra and Nipah virus replication by the malaria drug chloroquine, and viroids.

00:59:06  |   Sun 15 Mar 2009
TWiV #23 - Extreme virology

TWiV #23 - Extreme virology

Vincent, Dick, and Alan review a new macaque model for HIV-1 infection, a possible role for Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sclerosis, accidental release of H5N1 by a vaccine company, resistance of …

00:49:09  |   Sun 08 Mar 2009
TWiV #22 - Viral bioinformatics

TWiV #22 - Viral bioinformatics

In episode 22 of This Week in Virology, host Vincent Racaniello and guest host Chris Upton, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria in Vancouver…

00:59:02  |   Sat 28 Feb 2009
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