At the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, Vincent speaks with Vincent Munster about the work of his laboratory on MERS-coronavirus and Ebolaviruses. You can find this TWiV Special at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiVspecialmunster.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download TWiV Special (34 MB .mp3, 56 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!
Jeremy Luban, Aaron Lin, and Ted Diehl join the TWiV team to discuss their work on identifying a single amino acid change in the Ebola virus glycoprotein from the West African outbreak that increases infectivity in human cells. You can find TWiV #415 at microbe.tv/twiv, or listen below. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV415.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 415 (67 MB …
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From the EIDA2Z conference at Boston University, Vincent, Alan and Paul meet up with Ralph Baric, Felix Drexler, Marion Koopmans, and Stacey Schultz-Cherry to talk about discovering, understanding, protecting, and collaborating on emerging infectious diseases. You can find TWiV #413 at microbe.tv/twiv, or watch or listen here. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV413.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 413 (44 MB …
Four years after filming ‘Threading the NEIDL’, Vincent and Alan return to the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory BSL4 facility at Boston University where they speak with science writer David Quammen. You can find TWiV #408 at microbe.tv/twiv, or watch/listen here. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV408.mp3″] Click arrow to play Download TWiV 408 (42 MB .mp3, 69 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!
On episode #364 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Rich, and Kathy speak with Ralph Baric and Vineet Menachery about their research on the potential of SARS-like bat coronaviruses to infect human cells and cause disease in mice. You can find TWiV #364 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Lassa virus: a non-fictional account of its discovery in Africa in 1969 inspired me to become a virologist. Hence papers on this virus always catch my attention, such as one describing its origin and evolution. Lassa virus, a member of the Arenavirus family, is very different from Ebolavirus (a filovirus), but …
