TWiV 923: If a bat pees in a forest, does anyone care?

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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From The Third International Symposium on Infectious Diseases of Bats in Ft. Collins, Colorado, TWiV speaks with Vincent Munster and Raina Plowright about their careers and their research on bats, bat viruses, bat ecology and spillover events. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Brianne Barker Guests: Vincent Munster and Raina Plowright Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Novel Hendra virus variant in Australia (Emerg Inf Dis) Nipah virus detection after spillover events (Emerg Inf Dis) Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers (Nature) Ecological countermeasures to prevent zoonoses (Restor Ecol) Land-use induced spillovers (Lancet Planet Health) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! 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.
0:10.4	From the third international symposium on infectious diseases in bats in Fort Collins, Colorado,
0:17.7	this is TWIV, this week in virology. Episode 923 recorded on July 26th, 2022.
0:28.0	I'm Vincent Racken-Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:33.5	Joining me today here in Fort Collins, Brianne Barker. Hi Vincent, great to see you.
0:39.7	It is a lovely day outside, bright and sunny 84 Fahrenheit, 29 Celsius.
0:46.1	But lucky for us, we get to have a great conversation inside. It's lovely weather here.
0:51.9	Thank you Tony for the lovely weather. We really appreciate it. So we have two guests for you
0:57.7	today. This is as I said a meeting about infectious diseases of bats and actually much more.
1:04.8	And we're going to talk about that. And so from the NIH and Hamilton Montana, Vincent Munster,
1:11.8	welcome. Glad to be here. And thank you for inviting me here on stage.
1:15.9	Welcome back, actually. You were on TWIV a long time ago. February 2017.
1:21.6	Yeah, love has happened in the meantime. Oh yes. Oh yes. And Vincent is the only other Vincent
1:28.0	who's ever been on TWIV. I think, and now I know I'm going to be proven wrong about that.
1:33.3	Yeah, I'm the one with a weird accent. Also joining us from Cornell University,
1:38.8	Raina Plowwright, welcome. Thank you. It's great to be here. And I'm the other one with a weird accent.
1:45.3	Well, it just goes to show that research is international, right? Which is as it should be,
1:50.2	everybody in the world should be involved. So we're going to let's talk about bats,
1:56.1	bad viruses, and spillovers. Let's start by history. We love to hear how our guest scientists
2:04.1	have been trained and they ended up at this point. Raina, what tell us about your training?
2:10.7	Well, I trained as a veterinarian and then I decided to train, then do a graduate degree in
2:16.2	epidemiology at the University of California Davis, which is what brought me to the United States.
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