TWiV 1075: Fit viruses, parasites, sick chickens

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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For the last episode of 2023, TWiV describes how ancient chicken remains reveal the increase of fitness and virulence of Marek’s disease virus, and the diversity and dissemination of Leishmania virus in the pathogenic protozoan Leishmania braziliensis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker and Angela Mingarelli 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 Ancient chickens and Marek’s disease virus (Science) Diversity and dissemination of Leishmania virus and L. braziliensis (Nat Comm) Letters read on TWiV 1074 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Addictive Mandelbrot video and Gore slams COP28 summit Angela – 10 top-trending health questions you had for Dr. Google in 2023 Brianne – Tomato lost in space has been found Kathy – Earthquakes of the 20th Century Vincent – Animator Chris Georgenes especially Tricycle animation study Listener Picks Jason – Spot-on, quick booster explainer and “Inverse” vaccine Slashdot’s summary. the full article, primary research article Meika – Iceland earthquake site 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 Week in Virology, episode 1075, recorded on December 29th,
0:21.5	2023. I'm Vincent Rachinello and you're listening to the
0:26.2	podcast all about viruses. Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon de Pomier.
0:35.0	Hello, Vincent's and everybody else.
0:37.0	A brief excursion into the weather report says that if I closed my eyes and I didn't know what date this was,
0:46.4	I would swear that I was getting out my fishing equipment and waiting for the trout
0:52.0	season to open.
0:53.0	It's mild, it's beautiful, it shouldn't be this way in December,
1:00.0	this very off-putting.
1:01.0	Get used to it.
1:03.2	New York is 12 degrees Celsius and mostly sunny.
1:10.8	Yeah I wore a scarf today totally unnecessary. Also joining us from Ann Arbor,
1:18.0	Michigan, Kathy Spindler. Hi everybody here it's 41 Fahrenheit which is 5 Celsius and it's
1:25.3	drizzling and it's been gray and cloudy for more than a week we had a foggy
1:30.9	Christmas and it we might have sun tomorrow, they said.
1:37.0	Aren't you do for some snow out there?
1:40.0	They said we might have snow on Sunday, but it won't stick, won't accumulate.
1:48.0	It won't stick. Yep. They don't say stick. They say accumulate. I'm thinking of you know what we're going to say today is not going to stick probably.
2:00.0	All right also joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brianne Barker.
2:07.0	Hi, great to be back.
2:11.0	It's 51 Fahrenheit 10 Celsius here and it is currently not raining. It has been raining for quite a few days straight
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