TWiV 1073: Taming the shrew and barring Epstein-Barr virus

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

TWiV explains a study showing that ost traits shape virome composition and virus transmission in wild bats, rodents, and shrews, and development of a gB nanoparticle vaccine that elicits a protective neutralizing antibody response against Epstein-Barr virus. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Brett Lindenbach passes (Yale Medicine) Virome of small mammals (Cell) Epstein-Barr virus nanoparticle vaccine (Cell Host Micr) Letters read on TWiV 1073 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Summary of Global Climate Action at COP 28 and Notable Deaths 2023: Music Kathy – Two APODS Winter solstice, 183 Days in the Sun and the Same color illusion Vincent – The American Academy of Microbiology discusses gain-of-function research of concern (GOFROC) and enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP) Listener Picks Gregory – Climate Change – A revised prediction – Steven Chu John – Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Technology Connections) 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 Vyrology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:07.0	From Microbe TV, this is Twive, this weekend virology, episode 1073 recorded on December 22nd,
0:21.5	2023.
0:23.7	I'm Vincent Dracagnello and you're listening to the podcast
0:27.0	all about viruses.
0:29.4	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, DePomey.
0:34.0	Hello there, Vincent and Kathy.
0:36.0	Of course, we need a weather report,
0:39.0	and all of us are in different places,
0:40.0	and this will be interesting today.
0:42.0	I'm looking at my window, it looks like a perfect day out there right?
0:45.3	If I were to step outside dressed as I am though I would be freezing my little tutus off because it's
0:51.5	cold it's cold it's cold it's cold it's in the high 30s and
0:56.7	tomorrow it's supposed to go down into the low 20s so as you know you can't judge a book by its cover. You can never judge a day by looking out your window.
1:06.4	You have to go outside to find out.
1:08.0	Well here in the D.C. area it's 9 degrees in cloudy. Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
1:16.1	Hi everybody, here it's 42 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 5.6 degrees Celsius.
1:22.5	And it said that right about now,
1:25.0	well one minute from now,
1:26.4	it would start raining and rain for 20 minutes.
1:29.1	But I won't be studying the window
1:31.6	to make sure that happens. Dixon I got an email from someone who said here's a small
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