Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Mark Pallansch, and Trine Tsouderos Vincent, Rich, Mark, and Trine discuss science and medicine in journalism and the eradication of poliovirus at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV149.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV ...

At the Harvard Virology Program Retreat for 2011, the students ran a viral dessert contest. I posted some of the images at VirusTalk. Have a look at them - they are truly delicious.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson have a broad-ranging conversation with Charles Knirsch of Pfizer, Inc. about how public-private partnerships can function to control and eliminate infectious diseases. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP030.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP #30 (61 MB .mp3, 85 minutes). Links for this episode: ...

The Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) is the annual infectious diseases meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. This year the meeting will take place in Chicago, Illinois, and both This Week and Virology and This Week in Microbiology will be broadcast live from the meeting.  TWiV will air ...

We note the passing of Bernard F. Erlanger, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Medical Center. Bernie, as he was known to his colleagues, joined our department in 1952 after earning his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Columbia University in 1951, and remained a member of the department until he passed ...