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.

• A cornucopia of human polyomaviruses (Nat Rev Micro)


• Polyoma assembly factories in nucleus (PLoS Path)


• Overprinting gene in Merkel cell polyomavirus (PNAS)


• Human JCV as population marker (PLoS One)


• Letters read on TWiV 250


• Video of this episode (YouTube)

Robert - The Panic Virus by Seth MnookinVincent - Aliens chestburster behind the scenes

Adam - Virology Fact of the DayChristophe - dr Karl

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