TWiV 933: Island-hopping bats

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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TWiV discusses a new henipavirus from fruit bats in Madagascar, and attenuation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron disease in mice caused by genome mutations outside of the spike protein coding region. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Research assistant position at FDA (pdf) Beijerinck virology prize (KNAW) Nipah virus vaccine (TWiV 618) Novel henipavirus from Madagascar (J Viral) Spike-independent Omicron attenuation in mice (Cell Rep) Letters read on TWiV 933 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Small groups: 3. Modern Jazz Quartet. Signature song: Skating in Central Park. Signature album: Django. Brianne – To Prevent a Martian Plague, NASA Needs to Build a Very Special Lab Kathy – Physics Girl – Overnight in the Most Remote Camp on Earth Vincent – Lab leaders wrestle with paucity of postdocs Listener Picks Gary – Stan Kenton Orchestra Miguel – Microsoft Premonition 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.
0:10.5	From MicroPTV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 933, recorded on September 2, 2022.
0:21.2	I'm Vincent Racken-Yellow, and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:26.0	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixandee, Pommeier.
0:30.4	Hello everybody.
0:31.8	Um, out my window today, it looks good and it is good.
0:36.9	There's a light breeze, the temperature is in the low 80s, the humidity is probably about,
0:42.8	I would guess 40 to 45% just sticking my hand out the window, I might be wrong,
0:48.5	but it's comfortable, it's a lovely day.
0:51.5	Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:55.3	Hi everybody.
0:56.4	Here it's 84 degrees, uh, Fahrenheit, which is 29 Celsius, and it's also a very nice day.
1:04.3	Ann from Madison, New Jersey, Brienne Barker.
1:08.3	Hi everyone.
1:10.3	The beautiful days continue here in Madison as well, 78 Fahrenheit, partly cloudy, but mostly
1:16.9	all I see is sun.
1:18.7	All right, well, we have a few announcements for you before we dive into
1:22.8	science.
1:25.6	And the first is an advertisement for a research assistant in Amy Rosenfeld's laboratory at FDA.
1:36.3	And their, their focus of research is to elucidate the mechanisms by which cross species
1:41.6	anti-antroviruses and abouties may affect viral pathogenesis.
1:46.2	So this is for a research assistant to support work on pecornaviruses like
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