170: Practicing Communicable Science Studying Viruses and Sharing Research with the World - Dr. Vincent Racaniello
Dr. Vincent Racaniello is the Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT before joining the faculty at Columbia. In addition to his academic research career, Vincent is also a co-creator of BioCrowd (a social network for scientists), he runs the Virology Blog at virology.ws, and he hosts the fantastic \u201cThis Week in Virology\u201d, \u201cThis Week in Parasitism\u201d, and \u201cThis Week in Microbiology\u201d podcasts. Vincent is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.