TWiV 1009: Nidovirus on the water

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Vincent travels to Montreux, Switzerland and the 16th International Nidovirus Symposium, where he speaks with Maria von Kerkhove, the face of COVID-19 for the World Health Organization, and Kanta Subbarao, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Influenza in Melbourne. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Kanta Subbarao and Maria von Kerkhove Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Nidovirus Symposium, Montreux WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza, Melbourne Maria von Kerkhove (Wikipedia) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.6	From the 16th International Nidovirus Symposium, this is Twiv. This week in virology,
0:19.6	Episode 109. Who's an oz, please?
0:30.0	Recorded on May 16th, 2023. How many TV shows have a thousand episodes? Come on, right?
0:39.3	That's really good for a nerdy virology podcast. At least I think it's cool. I'm Vincent
0:45.2	Racken Yellow, and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses. Today we are recording in
0:50.9	Montreux, Switzerland, where 400 or so Nidovirus have come together to discuss their craft.
1:00.0	Nidovirus are positive, strong RNA viruses that include corona viruses and many other viruses,
1:07.3	and they're all the topic of this meeting. By the way, we did a Twiv at the, I think the last
1:13.6	in person Nidovirus meeting in June 2017. It was in Kansas City. I have two guests from the
1:22.4	meeting today. I'm really happy to speak with my left from the World Health Organization,
1:27.6	where she is the head of the emerging diseases and zoonosis unit. Also the technical lead of the
1:34.8	COVID-19 response. Maria von Kirkov, welcome to Twiv. Thanks for having me.
1:45.7	And on my right, she is director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for
1:53.8	Reference and Research on Influenza. Also professor at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne,
2:00.4	Australia, can't super out. Welcome to Twiv. Thank you very much.
2:09.2	I noticed I said Melbourne correctly, right? Because I visited there and they taught me how to say it.
2:14.5	It wasn't that hard. All right. So let's start with a little bit of your your histories.
2:20.5	By the way, Maria, someone at this meeting, I'm not going to say who was, ask me to ask you if you
2:26.4	knew what your name meant. Of the churchyard. Yes. Churchyard. And yeah, of the churchyard in
2:32.0	Flemish, it's my married name. My maiden name is De Joseph, De Josephi. De Josephi, very good.
2:38.4	Actually, someone said it meant cemetery. Cemetery. I'm well of the churchyard in the church.
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