Rich Condit reminisces
On my recent trip to record TWiV #111 at Florida Gulf Coast University, I visited Rich Condit in Gainesville. There he told me a story about how the bacteriophage T7…
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Derek Smith on antigenic cartography
Derek Smith, Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics, University of Cambridge, U.K., has developed a method for visualizing antigenic evolution by creating two-dimensional maps in a process called antigenic cartography. These…
Frederick Hayden on influenza antivirals
Frederick Hayden, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, U.K., has focused on the use of antiviral agents to prevent and treat respiratory viral infections. His…
Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, 1925-2011
…deaths. I did not personally know Dr. Blumberg, but we have something in common besides virology: Columbia University. Dr. Blumberg obtained the MD degree in 1951 from the College of…
Retroviruses and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
…of insoluble material by centrifugation. [I used a photo of Lou Gehrig in a Columbia University uniform not only because I work at Columbia, but for several years I lived…
Dickson Despommier’s Parasitic Diseases lectures
Professor Dickson Despommier, co-host of TWiV and TWiP, and well known for his ideas about vertical farming, taught parasitology to medical, dental, and nursing students at Columbia University’s College of…