TWiV 1079: Rock of phages

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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TWiV reveals how viruses participate in the organomineralization of travertines, and how neutralizing antibodies evolve to exploit vulnerable sites in the hepatitis C virus envelope glycoprotein E2 and mediate clearance of infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker 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 Global dengue cases rise markedly (WHO) Measles outbreak in Philadelphia (Phil Health Dept) Viruses and organomineralization of travertine (Sci Rep) Neutralizing antibodies and clearance of HCV infection (Immunity) Letters read on TWiV 1079 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Global climate highlights 2023 and 7 new songs you should hear Brianne – Stuff you should know episodes: METI and SETI Kathy – Oppenheimer “Science, Mission, Legacy” documentaries from Los Alamos Lab One Two Three and Los Alamos National Laboratory Summer 2023 National Security Science: The Oppenheimer Issue Rich – The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Alan – Less is Morse, an educational game Vincent – Citing Misinformation, Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines Listener Picks Sonrisa – Microorganisms in Perspective Anonymous – Wow! Human Cells Vibrate With Resonant Frequency and It’s Technically Audible Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

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0:00.0	This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:07.0	From Microbe TV, this is Twive this weekend virology episode 1079 recorded on January 12, 2024.
0:24.0	I'm Vincent Rachinello,
0:25.7	and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:29.7	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, Dapeum Yay.
0:34.3	Hello everybody and a happy new year again.
0:38.6	Looking out my window, it looks kind of not great.
0:45.0	This morning it looked terrific.
0:47.0	It was absolutely crystalline.
0:48.0	And now the clouds are moving again
0:50.0	and we're told that by tomorrow we should start building an arc.
0:53.4	In some parts of the country it's snowing you know it Dixon.
0:58.3	Yeah and in that case get my musher sound.
1:00.8	Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
1:05.0	Hi everybody, here is one of the places where it's snowing.
1:08.0	I came home from work early so that I would not have to mush home afterward because at first they were talking about
1:15.2	Seven inches of snow by six p.m. and then it's dropped off and it started later and it's still it's above
1:26.7	Freezing here so it's still it's above freezing here so it's 34 Fahrenheit about 2 Celsius and it's supposed to turn to rain but there's so much of this that it could be the flood that you guys are going to get in New Jersey.
1:37.3	Wonderful. Thank you very much.
1:39.3	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, which Khan did.
1:42.9	Hi everybody, good to be back, it's been a while.
1:46.8	Where have you been?
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