TWiV 356: Got viruses?

Published: Sept. 27, 2015, 1:58 p.m.

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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0Rich Condit,\\xa0and\\xa0Kathy Spindler

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Guest: Stephanie Neal

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Stephanie joins the super professors to discuss the gut virome of children with serious malnutrition, caterpillar genes acquired from parasitic wasps, and the effect of adding chemokines to a simian immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine.

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Links for this episode

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Weekly Science Picks 1:18:35, 1:45:30

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Alan -\\xa0Plates from Hooke\'s Micrographia
Rich -\\xa0The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
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Dickson\\xa0-\\xa0Color variations of Pluto and Lunar total eclipse
Stephanie - The science of moldy cheese by Carl Zimmer
Vincent\\xa0-\\xa0But Why?

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Reed\\xa0- The Bench Warmers Podcast

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Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@twiv.tv

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