TWiV 1099: Volker Lohmann, as persistent as his viruses

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Vincent travels to the University of Heidelberg to speak with Volker Lohmann about his career and the research of his laboratory on hepatitis C virus, hepatitis A virus, and norovirus. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Volker Lohmann 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 HCV human challenge studies (Lancet Gastro Hepatol) Comparison of HCV and HAV infections (J Hepatol) HCV cell culture systems (J Med Chem) 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, a special episode recorded on December 5th,
0:19.4	2023. I'm Vincent Rachinello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:27.0	Today I am back in Heidelberg, Germany.
0:31.3	I'm at the University of Heidelberg. This is part of my week here culminating in the giant virus meeting in Tegernsey.
0:39.0	But today I have a special guest for you.
0:43.1	He is in the Department of Infectious Diseases Disease's
0:46.9	Molecular Virology Volker Lohmann.
0:51.0	Welcome to Twix. Welcome, Winston, it's my pleasure.
0:57.0	It's like you have some fans here, right?
1:00.0	I think you have some fans here, to be honest. They are all your lab, right?
1:05.0	No, not all.
1:06.0	No, not all. Who's in Vokers' lab?
1:08.0	Raise your hand.
1:09.0	Just one, the rest of you are...
1:11.0	Unfortunately, we have a guest today and he's engaged with the rest of the group.
1:15.0	Okay, no problem. But thank you for clapping and thanks for coming. I want to talk mostly
1:21.2	about your work on hepatitis C virus right but let's start first
1:24.9	by exploring your history where you're from and where you were educated and
1:30.5	trained and so forth yeah actually I'm born not so far from here about one hour north.
1:35.0	So at school actually I was, I'm not a born virologist to be honest.
1:40.0	I was broadly interested in kind of social sciences, politics, philosophy, literature, also natural sciences.
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