The glorious TWiVerati un-impact their email backlog, anwering questions about viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, and more. You should listen - our fans ask great questions! Click arrow to play Download TWiV 447 (67 MB .mp3, 110 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv Become a patron of TWiV!

The TWiV hosts review an analysis of gender parity trends at virology conferences, and the origin and unusual pathogenesis of the 1918 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 446 (68 MB .mp3, 112 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv

On the wall of a Columbia University Medical Center building just across the street from my laboratory is a plaque commemorating two participants in the discovery of a mosquito vector for yellow fever virus. The plaque reads: Aristides Agramonte, Jesse William Lazear, Graduates of the Columbia University College of Physicians ...

https://youtu.be/YD0TlyAHEws From Nido2017 in Kansas City, Vincent  meets up with three virologists to talk about their careers and their work on nidoviruses. Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv Click arrow to play Download TWiV 445 (39 MB .mp3, 64 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV!

At the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting last week in New Orleans, Ed Yong interviewed astronaut Kate Rubins for the keynote address. The large theatre was packed, and overflow crowds watched the event on monitors throughout the New Orleans Convention Center. But I think that a scientist should have interviewed Dr. ...