I joined Marc Pelletier on episode 60 of Futures in Biotech for a conversation with Malcolm Whiteway about one of the most powerful genetic model systems: Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/fib0069.mp3 | titles=FiB 69] Download FiB #69 (46 MB .mp3, 95 minutes) Download video (231 MB .mp4)
Readers of this blog know that I embrace social media for teaching virology. My experience with two types of social media, blogging and podcasting, has been published as an Opinions piece by PLoS Pathogens (read the full text or download the pdf file). In this article I discuss how social media is becoming an increasingly …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 18 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss the intracellular parasite Cryptosporidium, which causes diarrheal disease in most mammalian species. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP018.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology …
This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton (Disclaimer: BBB was developed in the Upton lab, so this is a biased review.) This will be a multi-part posting describing the key features of BBB. Base-By-Base (BBB) is a Java (platform independent) multiple sequence alignment (MSA) editor. Development was begun many years …
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #104 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the entire TWiV family reviews the latest ideas about colony collapse disorder of honeybees, and resurgence of monkeypox in Africa. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV104.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #104 (70 MB .mp3, …
After my lecture on influenza pathogenesis and evolution at the Northeast Laboratory Conference 2010 in Portland, Maine, I was asked if it is necessary to receive the influenza vaccine every year. This question was precipitated by my statement that the 2010-11 trivalent influenza vaccine contains the same swine-origin H1N1 strain as last year€™s monovalent vaccine. …
