Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit On episode #106 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a second installment of their discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV106.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click ...

How large is the zoonotic pool - all the animal viruses that could one day infect humans? Assuming that there are 50,000 vertebrates on earth, each with 20 viruses, the number is one million - probably a vast underestimate. Determining just how many viruses exist in a variety of animal ...

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"] ...

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 ...