This Week in Virology

TWiV 162: Transcription

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Vincent, Rich, and Alan continue Virology 101 with a discussion of transcription, the process of making mRNA from a DNA template. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV162.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 162 (56 MB .mp3, 93 minutes). …

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TWiV 161: Concerto in B

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Gabriel Victora Vincent, Rich, Alan and Gabriel review the production of antibodies by B cells, and how high affinity antibodies are selected in the germinal centers of lymph nodes. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV161.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download …

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TWiV 160: Moore tumor viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Patrick Moore The TWiV team speaks with Patrick Moore about his discovery, with Yuan Chang, of two human tumor viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV160.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download …

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TWiV 159: Flu gets the REDD light

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich review concern over an influenza H5N1 transmission experiment, and a new host defense protein against RNA viruses. Please help us by taking our listener survey. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV159.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 159 (48 MB .mp3, 80 minutes). Subscribe …

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TWiV 158: Wolverines go viral

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alice Telesnitsky, and Kathy Spindler Vincent and Rich visit the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, and speak with Alice and Kathy about their work on HIV genome dimerization, and packaging and pathogenesis of mouse adenovirus. Model of poliovirus bound to CD155 made by Stefan Taube. …

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TWiV 157: Better innate than never

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, Jeremy Luban, and Gabriel Victora A large TWiV panel remembers Ralph Steinman, and considers a new innate sensor of retroviral capsids. Photograph of a dendritic cell (green) interacting with T cells (cyan) near a blood vessel by Gabriel Victora. Please help us by taking our listener survey. …

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