TWiV Special: David Baltimore, remembered

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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TWiV re-issues our 100th episode which featured a discussion of viruses with David Baltimore, an exemplary scientist and Vincent’s exemplary mentor, who passed on 6 September 2025. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: David Baltimore Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV David’s early papers on poliovirus and mengovirus RNA synthesis Reverse transcriptase found by Baltimore and Temin (pdfs) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 The David Baltimore asteroid belt Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:11.0	This week in Virology episode number 100, recorded September 21st, 2010.
0:23.7	Hi, everybody.
0:24.7	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and this is Twiv, and we have reached episode 100.
0:30.9	So we have a special episode for you.
0:34.0	Twiv began just about two years ago.
0:36.3	In 2008, the first episode was posted on September 24th, 2008.
0:43.3	And I got started with Twiv with Dixon de Palmyet, my colleague here, and unfortunately he's not around to celebrate the 100th episode.
0:52.3	He's somewhere in Florida, I understand.
0:55.3	But a few months after we started, we were joined by my former PhD student and science writer from Western Massachusetts, Alan.
1:05.6	And I'm happy to say he's here with us today.
1:08.1	Hey, Alan.
1:08.8	Yes, I am.
1:09.7	Good to be back and glad to have hit the 100th episode.
1:13.4	It only took two years, not too bad.
1:15.5	Yeah.
1:16.4	A few months after Alan joined us, we were also joined permanently by a virologist from North
1:25.3	Central Florida at the University of Florida Gainesville, and that's
1:29.1	Rich Condit. Welcome, Rich.
1:31.2	Thanks very much, Vincent. Great to be here again.
1:33.7	You bet. And, of course, since it's episode 100, we have a special guest, and it is just
1:40.4	amazing that it turned out that he's visiting Columbia this week.
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