TWiV 1097: Tiny cells and giant viruses in a castle

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Vincent travels to the fifth Giant Virus Meeting in Tegernsee, Germany and speaks with Sheree Yau and Victoria Queiroz about their research on picoeukaryotes (tiny algal cells) and their viruses, pithoviruses, and an educational kit for virology classes. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Sheree Yau and Victoria Queiroz 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) The New City by Dickson Despommier 8:16 Virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics (PNAS) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Virus-host coexistence in phytoplankton through the genomic lens (Sci Adv) Two groups of pithoviruses (J Virol) Educational toolkit for virology classes (J Virol) 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.
0:07.0	From Microbe TV, this is Twive, this weekend virology. A special episode recorded on December 7th,
0:20.0	2023. I'm Vincent Dracken-Yello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:27.0	Today we are recording at the fifth Giant virus meeting. it's taking place in Tegernsey Germany at the
0:37.8	Ringburg Castle which is a really cool castle up on the hill next to a lake and we have a lot of snow. It's like
0:48.7	three degrees Celsius today outside and today was beautiful it was sunny and we are
0:55.0	recording in front of a audience full of giant virologists.
1:01.1	Hello giant virologists? Hello?
1:07.0	You know, you would think the giant virologists make more noise than other
1:15.6	virologists and I have two guests for you this evening it's 8 p. PM. Everyone has just had dinner, they've had something to
1:26.1	drink, so everyone's relaxed and we're going to talk for about an hour about the
1:31.1	research being done by two people from this meeting.
1:34.4	So here are guests from the French National Center for Scientific Research
1:41.4	at the Banuels Oceanological Observatory.
1:46.6	Sheree, yeah, welcome to Twive.
1:49.1	Thanks.
1:50.1	I got everything right.
1:51.8	Yeah, that's all right.
1:53.2	Because I asked her, what's your affiliation?
1:54.6	And she said, it's a little complicated.
1:58.4	And also, from the Universidad Federal de Minas Gere,
2:05.0	Jare, Jare, Jare, Jare, Jaree, Jaree,
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