Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #105 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review eradication of rinderpest, endogenous hepatitis B virus in the zebra finch genome, and identification of the cell receptor for an extinct retrovirus. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV105.mp3″] Click the arrow above to …
I joined Marc Pelletier on episode 60 of Futures in Biotech for a conversation with Malcolm Whiteway about one of the most powerful genetic model systems: Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/fib0069.mp3 | titles=FiB 69] Download FiB #69 (46 MB .mp3, 95 minutes) Download video (231 MB .mp4)
Readers of this blog know that I embrace social media for teaching virology. My experience with two types of social media, blogging and podcasting, has been published as an Opinions piece by PLoS Pathogens (read the full text or download the pdf file). In this article I discuss how social media is becoming an increasingly …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #104 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the entire TWiV family reviews the latest ideas about colony collapse disorder of honeybees, and resurgence of monkeypox in Africa. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV104.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #104 (70 MB .mp3, …
After my lecture on influenza pathogenesis and evolution at the Northeast Laboratory Conference 2010 in Portland, Maine, I was asked if it is necessary to receive the influenza vaccine every year. This question was precipitated by my statement that the 2010-11 trivalent influenza vaccine contains the same swine-origin H1N1 strain as last year€™s monovalent vaccine. …
This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton The Jalview package: a multiple alignment editor. This software is primarily aimed at the alignment of protein sequences. Some of the key features are: It allows you to edit the alignment It has functions to display associated protein structures It can connect to …
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