Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 19 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson move on to nematodes with a discussion of the pinworm. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP019.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org. Links …
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 …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 17 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of protozoan parasites that cause diarrhea with a review of amebic dysentery caused by Entamoeba histolytica. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP017.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you …
In the final lecture of my virology course, Professor Dickson Despommier weaves a story about the arrival of West Nile virus to the United States in the summer of 1999. This is a special treat that you won’t want to miss, as Prof. Despommier is a wonderful storyteller. Download: .wmv (422 MB) | .mp4 (108 …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 2 of the podcast “This Week in Parasitism”, Vincent and Dick classify parasites according to whether or not they are transmitted by a vector, then consider the implications of long-lived parasites. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP002.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download Download TWiP #2 (47 …
My co-host for the netcast This Week in Virology, Dick Despommier, is featured in a Time magazine article entitled “Vertical Farming”. As listeners of TWiV may know, Dick has developed the idea of constructing hydroponic farms in multistory urban buildings as a way of avoiding the food crunch that will likely occur in 50 years. …
