TWiV 380: Viruses visible in le microscope photonique

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVeroos deliver the weekly Zika Report, then talk about a cryoEM structure of a plant virus that reveals how the RNA genome is packaged in the capsid, and MIMIVIRE, a CRISPR-like defense system in giant eukaryotic viruses.

• First worms, then viruses, now dormant cyber pathogens (Zdziarski blog)


• Guillain-Barré with Zika virus in urine (Eurosurveillance)


• Zika virus in urine, Brazil (J Clin Virol)


• Zika in pregnant women in Rio (NEJM)


• Issues with NEJM pregnant women study (Epi-Ramble)


• Zika virus and meningoencephalitis (NEJM)


• Zika virus and acute myelitis (Lancet)


• Person to person transmission of Zika virus (MMWR)


• Pyrethroids and mouse microcephaly (one, two)


• Zika virus illustrations (Visual Science)


• Cowpea mosaic virus at high resolution (Nat Comm)


• MIMIVIRE confers resistance to virophage (Nature)


• CRISPR in a phage (TWiM 56)


• National Academy of Sciences GoFoc meeting


• Image credit


• Letters read on TWiV 380

This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and Microbe Magazine Podcast

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