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This Week in Virology

TWiV 968: A spillover waiting in the wings

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

TWiV reviews eukaryotic viruses recovered from ancient permafrost, a mistake made by scientists on Omicron origins, and close relatives of MERS-CoV from bats that bind ACE2 for entry into cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker 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 Positions with the Mosquito and Vector Control Division in Harris County Public Health (one and two) Ancient eukaryotic viruses from permafrost (bioRxiv) We made a mistake (Science) Bat MERS-like CoV bind ACE2 (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 968 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Alto Saxophone: Paul Desmond/Cannonball Adderley/Charlie Parker/Randal Despommier: Paul Desmond: Signature album: Paul Desmond:The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1961-1965). Signature song: Take Five (Dave Brubeck Quartet). Cannonball Adderley: Signature album: The Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Signature song: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Charlie Parker (Bird): played in many groups: Signature album: Dizzy Gillespie and His Allstars. Signature song: A Night In Tunisia; Randal Despommier: Signature album: A Midsummer Odyssey. Signature song: I Hope It’s Spring For You. Brianne – How a See-Through Frog Hides its Red Blood from Predators (also covered in The Atlantic) Rich – Mindfulness in Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana Vincent – Unveiling skin macrophage dynamics explains both tattoo persistence and strenuous removal Listener Picks Rona – WKCR, FM 89.9 Columbia‘s radio station Alan – XKCD Proxy Variable 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.

0:10.2

From micro.btv, this is twiv this week in virology, Episode 968 recorded on December 23,

0:19.4

2022. I'm Vincent Dracchanello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses joining me

0:26.7

today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, they pomie. Hello gang, out the window, it's gotten gray

0:34.3

and very cold. That's all I have to say. This morning when I came here, it was rather warm,

0:40.9

was raining. It's gotten colder, it's one degree C and we're expecting flurry. So also joining us

0:46.4

from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here. It is still 49 Fahrenheit, nine Celsius

0:52.7

here. I'm expecting that to plummet very soon. It is blowing about a full gale,

0:59.6

gusting up into the 40 to 50 mile an hour range and the skies are just stacked up

1:07.1

castles of clouds blasting through at high speed. It's pretty dramatic. So poetic today, Dr. Dove.

1:14.4

Well, so joining us from upstate New York, Brian Barker. Hi, great to be here. You may notice that

1:20.7

it is snowing outside here and it is 20 degrees Fahrenheit. And from, I say, I grouped all the

1:27.2

similar weather places together. Now we have from Austin, Texas, Rich Condon. Well, get this

1:35.0

31 degrees. We're about, we're about a day ahead of you guys. It was 16 last night. Wow,

1:42.8

16 Fahrenheit, 31 today. It's not going above freezing today. And for the next,

1:47.6

let me see tonight, the forecast is 20, then 23, 28, 33. So we got four days of this.

1:58.4

It is going to go above freezing during a day, but just the citrus fruit goodbye.

2:03.2

Yeah, well, you know, you have quite the shine shining sun on your wall there, man. That's

2:08.8

cool. Yeah, that's a tinkerbell. And there's not much. Not much I can do about tinkerbell,

2:14.6

because unless I know, don't worry about it. It'll move in the course of this six hour show.

2:19.7

It's around. It's rich. And

2:23.1

last this week, now, now, now Zeldy had a tinkerbell on his nose. I said, you got tinkerbell.

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