TWiV 1039: Landmines for phages, a mouthful of redondoviruses

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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TWiV describes how a viral capsid protein activates a bacterial innate immune system that interferes with protein synthesis, and human-associated redondoviruses that infect the commensal protozoan Entamoeba gingivalis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) Anti-phage defense via capsid detection (Nature) Redondoviruses infect commensal amoebae (Cell Host Micro) A host for redondoviruses (Nat Rev Micro) Letters read on TWiV 1039 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – “Cosmic Time Machine” Netflix documentary Kathy – Antarctican accents Rich – Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, Week of wonder: The case for preserving parasites Jolene – Perspective article on best practices for improving graduate admissions Vincent – Why Chandrayaan-3 landed near the moon’s south pole — and why everyone else wants to get there too Listener Picks Douglas – On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management Matt – This Scientist Tracked Bats for Decades and Solved a Mystery About a Deadly Disease 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 micro up TV, this is TWIV, this week in Virology, episode 1039 recorded on August 25th, 2023.
0:22.5	I'm Vincent Drakaniello, and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses
0:28.5	joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, Deepom, Yay.
0:34.2	Thank you, Vincent. Hello, everybody. I look out my window. When I see clouds,
0:39.8	I see little spots of water on my window, indicating that it might be raining out.
0:45.1	The temperature is in the low 70s. It is very, I'm sorry, I take that back. It went up to 80.
0:52.8	It's humid as heck, uncomfortable, and thank goodness I'm indoors.
0:59.4	Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
1:03.4	Hi, everybody. Here it's 75 Fahrenheit, 26 Celsius, after two nights of serious thunderstorms.
1:10.9	Last night we only had less than an inch, but a lot of thunder and lightning.
1:15.6	And the night before we had three inches of rain, and just lots and lots of the lightning that
1:21.3	doesn't have thunder, we were talking about is that what you call heat lightning,
1:25.6	but it was raining. So it was just wild, three inches in pretty short time.
1:30.4	So, and I'm looking up our humidity, sorry, 77% and a dew point is 67.
1:36.4	So joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:40.3	Hi, everybody. The weather is a little different here.
1:44.2	It's officially 104 degrees.
1:48.8	It's kind of a, maybe a little hazy or something like high veiled or thin overcast,
1:56.2	or something weird, you know, it's not a clear blue sky, but it's thinking hot and will remain so
2:04.4	for the foreseeable future. I think we'll start to get a little relief in September.
2:10.8	And just to, you know, since you guys did the same thing,
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