TWiV 956: A domesticated viral envelope with Cedric Feschotte and John Anthony Frank

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Cedric and John join TWiV to discuss their research showing that a human protein derived from an ancient retrovirus infection can protect against infection by other retroviruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Cedric Feschotte and John Anthony Frank Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) with promo code MicrobeTV Cedric on TWiV 935 Antiviral retroviral protein (Science) Stealing genes, facing consequences (Science) Letters read on TWiV 956 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy – Wastewater Dashboard Rich – Artemis I Mission; Artemis I launch; Artemis I Map Vincent – Pasta Grammar Listener Picks Rich – Watch a virus in the moments before it attacks Justin – Respiratory syncytial virus 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 microbe TV, this is Twiv, this week in virology, episode 956, recorded on November 17, 2022.
0:20.6	I'm Vincent Racken-Yellow, and you're listening to the podcast, all about viruses,
0:25.2	joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:30.0	Hi everybody. Here it's 35 Fahrenheit, but it says it feels like 25, and we're going to have
0:36.4	light snow starting in 13 minutes. And in Celsius, that's one degree feels like minus five Celsius.
0:45.3	Here in New York, it's seven degrees Celsius and mostly cloudy, also joining us from Austin,
0:52.0	Texas, rich condit. Hi there. 57 degrees Fahrenheit, cloudy, and it's not going to get much better for
1:01.5	a while. We're in the cool phase. I heard that Buffalo got four feet of snow. I miss that.
1:12.3	Sort of. We have two guests for you today who worked on a project together that we are going to
1:20.8	talk about, but now they are separated. So returning actually from Twiv, 935 from Cornell
1:30.5	University, Cedric Feshot, welcome back. Thank you. Thank you for having me again. Sure.
1:38.0	Last time. We don't have four feet of snow here, even though we are upstate in New York,
1:42.9	not too far from Buffalo, but we got some. We got a dusting, you know, it's pretty. It feels like winter
1:49.1	already. Yes. So last time I visited you, it was summer, I guess, right? It was very nice.
1:56.0	Went to your office and we didn't talk too much about your work. So we mostly talked about
2:01.7	background. So we thought I told you, when you get something interesting, let me know and you did.
2:07.2	So that's what we're here today for. And also joining us from Yale University, John, Anthony
2:14.3	Frank, welcome to Twiv. Thank you for having me. It's 45 degrees here in overcast. Can't complain.
2:22.0	In New Haven, Connecticut, right? Yes. John, where on the Yale campuses, your laboratory look in?
2:30.4	We're in the Anlean Center. So I worked for Dr. Tiko Ywasaki. So we are on college and
2:37.6	Cedar. Although I get the roads wrong, so it could be a little bit off. We're next to the
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