Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Lynn Enquist On episode 54 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way Prof. Enquist did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses. [powerpress …
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove In episode #53 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about Nobel prizes for telomere research, bacteriophages that protect aphids from wasps, salicylates and pandemic influenza mortality, and hand washing. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV053.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove On episode #52 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, and Alan (with a cameo appearance by Rich Condit) review the world’s largest Phase III study of a complex HIV vaccine candidate in Thailand, immunization of salmon against infectious salmon anemia virus, and an outbreak …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode 48 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich revisit a vaccinia virus lab accident and viral vaccines produced in plants, then talk about an iPhone app to track infectious diseases, flying foxes, and an inhaled measles vaccine. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV048.mp3″] Click …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier In episode #46 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent and Dick continue virology 101 with a discussion of virus entry into cells, then answer reader email on colony collapse disorder and viruses that confer a benefit to their host. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV046.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Jennifer Drahos In episode #44 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Jennifer Drahos consider Marburg virus in Egyptian fruit bats, bacterial citrus pathogen found in shipping facility, canine parvovirus in Michigan, Relenza-resistant influenza virus, new HIV from gorillas, and public engagement on …
