Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Alan Dove The complete TWiV gang discusses the use of Wolbachia to control mosquito-borne infections. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV147.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 147 (64 MB .mp3, 89 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode #28 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz, Assistant Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIAID. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP028.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP #28 (65 MB .mp3, 91 minutes). Links for this …
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What would you conclude if you read the following headlines: Man sexually transmits insect-borne disease to wife (Fox News); Zika virus: First insect borne STD? (HuffPo); Scientist gives insect-borne disease to wife during sex (New York Magazine), and A scientist contracts a mosquito-borne virus and gives it to his wife as std (Time). What would …
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Marc Pelletier On episode #115 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication in Aedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV115.mp3″] Click the …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Ed Fussell, Andrea Leal, and Amy Sargent On episode #111 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the TWiV crew meets with members of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District at Florida Gulf Coast University to discuss dengue in Florida and how to control it. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV111.mp3″] Click the arrow …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 11 of the podcast “This Week in Parasitism”, Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of malaria, with emphasis on clinical aspects of the disease. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP011.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology …
