TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Vincent travels to Tegernsee, Germany for the Sixth Ringberg Symposium on Giant Viruses, where he talks with John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont about their work on – you guessed it – giant viruses. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Transposable elements shaping Ectocarpus genome (Genome Biol) Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses (Nature) Mirusviruses predicted to reproduce in nuclei (Nat Micro) Persistent mirusvirus infection in the marine protist Aurantiochytrium (Nat Com) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! 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.
0:10.4	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology, episode 1281, recorded on December 18th, 2025.
0:22.0	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:27.5	Today we are recording at the 6th Ringberg Symposium on Giant Viruses.
0:34.8	It's being held in Ringberg Castle in Tegernsey, Germany.
0:40.9	And I have with me today three speakers at the meeting from all different places in the world.
0:47.9	They're going to tell you all about their work on giant viruses.
0:51.9	So starting right to my left from Germany, Susanna Cuellio. Welcome.
1:00.0	Thank you. I say your name well? Perfectly. Okay. I'm sensitive to people mispronouncing names.
1:07.2	Next over there from Canada, John Archibald. Welcome to Twiv.
1:11.6	Thank you.
1:12.6	And finally, all the way at the end, from France, Tom Delmont.
1:16.6	Welcome.
1:17.6	Thank you.
1:18.6	I have to say all three, well, maybe two out of the three, have been very nervous about doing this.
1:24.6	So make them feel at home. And you can make, you can laugh and shout stuff out if you want.
1:39.0	My assistant Karen, who was here last time, was really good at getting you to do that. I'm not so good, but you don't have to be silent.
1:46.0	It's great.
1:47.0	So I want to start by finding out a little bit of your histories, like how you got where we are today,
1:54.0	but go back as far as you can.
1:57.0	Where are you from, where you got educated, and how you ended up in your current position, okay?
2:03.1	So, Susanna, let's start with you.
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