TWiV 1195: Dickson Despommier, parasitologist without borders

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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The entire TWiV team comes together to pay tribute to Dickson Despommier, then reviews antibodies to H5N1 virus in veterinarians working with dairy cattle, Elisabeth Bik donates prize money for data integrity analyses, measles outbreak in Texas, and use of an alternative genetic code by human microbiome phages. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, Daniel Griffin, Angela Mingarelli, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Livestream tribute to Dickson (Office Hours) Dickson’s Wikipedia page Dickson’s obituary (NY Times) Dickson websites: trichinella.org, thelivingriver.org, fordhamopolis.com, despommierphotoart.com Alan’s tribute to Dickson (alandove.com) H5N1 seroprevalence (MMWR) Elisabeth Bik donates prize money (Science) Measles outbreak in Texas (Texas DSHS) Human microbiome phages use alternative genetic code (Nat Comm) Letters (mostly not) read on TWiV 1195 – all about Dickson Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Rare spotting of humpback anglerfish “diablo negro” (Melanocetus johnsonii) in Tenerife, Canary Islands. First time ever observed alive! Brianne – Moonwalking with Einstein inspired by reading NY Times article about Recent memory champ Kathy – Witness History 9 minute podcasts Rich – APOD: Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter Alan – Ecological succession on abandoned farmland Jolene – Parasitic Diseases Lectures and first 27 episodes of This Week in Parasitism Vincent – The New City 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.
0:10.1	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 11, 95, recorded on February 21st, 2025.
0:22.8	I'm Vincent Rackeniel and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:28.6	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:32.3	Hi, everybody.
0:35.8	Like everybody.
0:38.9	Let's see here.
0:42.8	I'm sorry, I'm behind on the weather.
0:44.8	I'll get it here in just a second.
0:46.2	It's freezing, basically.
0:50.2	We're going through another cold front.
0:59.4	And I've got it right here, 37 degrees. And it was down in the 20s. Last couple of nights, we have one more day of freezing. And then we're probably, that's probably yet for this winter.
1:05.8	Mine is six here. Chelsea, also joining us from Montreal, Canada, Angela Mingarelli.
1:13.1	Hello.
1:14.1	So it's also freezing here, a little bit more freezing.
1:17.1	It is 17F and minus 8C, which for us is very warm, considering the last two weeks has been like minus 20 almost every day.
1:25.4	So we're happy about it.
1:26.4	And tomorrow is supposed to go up to minus one, which is, I think, like 25, something like that.
1:32.4	It's exciting.
1:33.5	We said to Angela, an Instagram video of Plow in Montreal pushing a big pile of snow,
1:39.1	and in front of it there was a car.
1:41.2	Yeah.
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