TWiV 1151: Hotel California for Phage

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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TWiV reviews polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, viruses with zoonotic potential in farmed fur animals, low HPV vaccination in North Texas associated with high rates of cervical cancer, a large flavivirus genome that does not encode error correction machinery, and antiphage defense through inhibition of virion assembly. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Polio vaccination in Gaza (Reuters) Zoonotic viruses in farmed fur animals (Nature) HPV vaccination and cancer rates (JAMA Net Open) 40 kb RNA genome without error correction (PNAS) Stopping the phage tape measure protein (Nat Commun) Tail assembly interference (Nat Commun) Letters read on TWiV 1151 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Digital nature pics winners 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Alan – Adorable story about a Nigerian paralympian couple who are both polio survivors Jolene – Capsid assembly model with self-assembling pentamers in 3D print model (plus three more models now available if search self assembling virus) and Wonderlab article about exhibit using this to teach about viral patterns in Bloomington Indiana Science museum Vincent – The collapse of bat populations led to more than a thousand infant deaths Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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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 1149.
0:19.0	I'm Vincent Rachin-yellow, and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:24.8	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon de Pomier.
0:29.5	Hello, Vincent and everybody else. Let's see on Local Weather Report looking at the window. It looks as nice as it is.
0:40.0	There's almost no humidity. Well there has to be some but of course it's very tolerable.
0:45.7	Temperatures in the low 70s and it's almost a perfect day for just sitting on the porch
0:51.2	and watching the world go by which was what I did this morning.
0:55.5	25c and 64% humidity here in New Jersey. Yeah, you know, there's something to be said about sitting and watching.
1:03.2	I don't already loved it.
1:04.4	It was great.
1:05.4	Absolutely.
1:06.4	I don't even know.
1:07.4	The highlight of my watch, by the way, we have a school across the street from us,
1:11.2	Fortley High School.
1:12.6	And on the steeple of the, I guess it's a colonial style
1:18.9	architecture is a beautiful weather vein,
1:22.1	absolutely gorgeous.
1:23.4	And so we now know we're north and south and east and west are,
1:26.2	and it has a mobile weather vein, of course it moves with the direction of the wind and it's also a
1:38.8	favored perch for a local Cooper's Hawk.
1:43.0	And I haven't seen the Hawk around for a long time,
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