TWiV 1980: AI builds better viruses

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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TWiV reviews global measles outbreaks, toilet-generated aerosols that spread viruses, highly effective prevention of invasive cervical cancer by HPV vaccination, and design of improved adenovirus-associated viral vectors using machine learning. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit 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) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Jay Nelson obituary Measles outbreak in Europe and Central Asia (UNICEF) Closing the toilet lid doesn’t reduce virus aerosols (Am J Inf Control) NASA’s ingenuity helicopter mission ends (NASA) HPV vaccine prevents invasive cervical cancer (J NCI) Designing AAV vectors with machine learning (Sci Adv) Letters read on TWiV 1083 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Asian girl building a life building a fence to protect a bamboo house Rich – Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner Alan – Strange Bedfellows, by Ina Park Vincent – Star and Sphere kit – try the main page too 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 week in Vyrology, episode 1083 recorded on January 26,
0:21.0	2024.
0:22.0	I'm Vincent Rachinello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:28.0	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon de Pomey.
0:34.3	Hello, Vincent and everybody else.
0:37.3	Just briefly on the weather, it's grotty outside,
0:40.2	it's kind of foggy. It's in the low 40s, high 30s.
0:45.0	Tomorrow is supposed to be disaster and Sunday is going to be worse, but so we should enjoy today.
0:51.0	Eight degrees and cloudy here in New York City.
0:55.0	Yeah, it's not pleasant.
0:56.5	Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
1:00.0	Good to be here.
1:01.2	It's pretty similar here, 38 Fahrenheit 3 Celsius, it's foggy drizzly, black and black.
1:08.0	Yeah, it's black. And that's expected to persist for a few days.
1:13.0	And from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:17.0	Hi everybody, it's a little warmer here, but not much else is different.
1:21.0	You can tell actually, experienced listeners can tell what it's like outside because Tinker Bell is not here.
1:29.0	So it's cloudy and 55 degrees.
1:33.0	We've had a nice bunch of rain recently, which all of us
1:38.0	taxans appreciate.
1:40.0	And beyond that, we're just you know party along party hardy.
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