TWiV 896: Memory B cells, the way we were

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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TWiV explains a study of how climate change is predicted to increase cross-species viral transmission risk, and increased memory B cell potency and breadth after a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine boost. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Climate change and viral zoonosis risk (Nature) COVID-19 mRNA boost effect on memory B cells (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 896 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Toots Thilelemans Amy – Largest comet ever identified Vincent – Scientific review articles as antivaccine disinformation 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.
0:10.3	From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology. Episode 896 recorded on April 29th, 2022.
0:22.3	I'm Vincent Dracaniello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:26.8	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, D'Ai Palmier.
0:31.5	Hello, there, Amy and Vincent. Looking out my window, it looks like a beautiful day.
0:36.1	It actually is a beautiful day if you were a bird. There's a lot of wind out there.
0:41.9	The temperatures in the low 50s. There's very little humidity and we're expecting
0:49.0	weather down the road, but right now it's typical spring. By the way, today is our
0:53.9	rubber day. Just meant to mention that. That's tree day. Yep. So what do we do? Cut down a tree?
1:00.8	The opposite. From plant to tree. I'm kidding. Also joining us from New York, Amy Rosenfeld.
1:06.5	Hello, how are you? All of you. Hello. I was just up with Amy at Columbia and cleaning out
1:12.4	freezers. I threw out thousands of vials, right, Amy? Yes, we threw out thousands of vials.
1:18.5	Five of them were light bulbs. And we cleaned out an entire freezer. So I'm consolidating.
1:27.3	Very, very cool. I'm consolidating. It's very satisfying to clean out
1:32.2	freezers because there's stuff in there for 20 years, at least, right? It's true.
1:37.0	Believe it. But do you remember cleaning out your freezers, Dixon? Are they still there?
1:40.0	Of course I do. I remember how many boxes of slides that I've cut in the section both for EM
1:46.8	and for light microscopy. They just row after, after, after, after, and then they just disappeared.
1:53.2	All that work. Nobody wanted them. So I know 86.
1:58.6	Would you feel remorse? Did you feel? I felt sadness that I couldn't continue. But my life has
2:04.4	been good after that. So I'm okay. I don't feel sad that I'm throwing out vials.
2:08.9	As long as it doesn't say smallpox on it, that's fine. No, none of them said smallpox. One of them
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