TWiV 378: Herpes plays DUBstep

Published: Feb. 28, 2016, 2:23 p.m.

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

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Guests: Greg Smith and Mark Fuccio

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Greg Smith joins the TWiVirate\\xa0to reveal how his lab discovered a switch that controls herpesvirus neuroinvasion, and then we visit the week\'s news about Zika virus.

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Links for this episode

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This episode is sponsored by\\xa032nd Clinical Virology Symposium\\xa0and Microbe Magazine Podcast

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Weekly Science Picks

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Alan\\xa0-\\xa0Science byline counting project
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Greg\\xa0- Atlas, the next generation
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Mark - How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns

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Bohdan\\xa0- The real reason for brains

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

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