TWiV 973: Crouching virus, hidden triggers with Felicia Goodrum

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Felicia joins TWiV to discuss her career and her research on human cytomegalovirus, which infects most of us for our entire lives yet mainly causes disease in the immunosuppressed. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker Guest: Felicia Goodrum Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Research assistant position at FDA (pdf) •The loss of binary (Curr Clin Micro Rep) •Virology in Peril (mBio) •Letters read on TWiV 973 •Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – “Leukocyte” immunology video parody Alan – West Point Removing Confederate Monuments, and Ty Seidule’s book on that subject Vincent – The works of Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun; also short stories (First Person Singular, particularly Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey; and Men Without Women, particularly Drive My Car) Listener Picks Karen – On All Fours: Transient Laborers, the Threat of Movement, and the Aftermath of Disease Kevin – James Hoffmann and Bald and Bankrupt 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 microbe TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 973 recorded on January 6, 2023.
0:21.5	I'm Vincent Racken Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:25.8	Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dundes.
0:30.0	You're good to be here and it is sloppy weather here.
0:33.4	It's snowing but it's not sticking so it's just wet and cold and yucky.
0:40.8	We have nine degrees in cloudy, no snow here in New York City also joining us from Madison,
0:46.9	New Jersey, Brienne Barker. Hi, great to be here. It is 47 Fahrenheit here, cloudy and I honestly
0:54.7	think it has been consistently the same fog for the entire week. Yeah, it's been foggy. Brienne
1:00.5	is about 13 miles from me. We have the same weather, more or less, where I live anyway, no, where I am now.
1:07.6	Our guest today is from Tucson, Arizona, the University of Arizona, Felicia Goodroom. Welcome to TWIV.
1:15.6	Thank you. It's great to be here. I'm really excited to be here. It's about 65 degrees here and
1:20.2	beautiful as it always is in Tucson so you should all be here. Well, you don't want everyone there
1:25.8	because it's not good for you, right? It would be fun. Couple of months I'll be there. That's right.
1:32.9	What are you doing? You're going to do a seminar thingy or what? No, my family
1:38.0	spends some time there and I go visit them over Brienne. Okay, very good. It's fantastic.
1:44.0	Yeah, I remember that from from last time. Well, actually, Felicia, you and I talked many years
1:48.1	ago about coming on and it never happened for whatever reason and then I saw you last summer at ASV
1:54.9	and I said, we should have you. And so that was June or July and this is how long it takes
2:02.0	to do these things. So you're the first of our 2023 guests. How about that? Yeah, that's great.
2:10.1	Yeah, 2023 has kind of started off a little rocky so this is a great way to change course
2:14.8	to something fun. Yes. Before we start, I want to tell everyone that there is a research
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