TWiV 439: The purloined envelope
Paul Bieniasz joins the TWiV team to talk about the co-option, millions of years ago, of an endogenous retrovirus envelope protein by hominid ancestors for host defense against viral infection.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest:\xa0Paul Bieniasz
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Links for this episode- ASM Grant Writing Online Course
- Bieniasz Laboratory
- Julius S. Youngner, 96
- Distinguished virology career of Julius S. Youngner (TWiV 373)
- Reconstitution of a human ERV (PNAS)
- Co-option of ERV envelope for host defense (eLife)
- Letters read\xa0on TWiV 439
Kathy - UM Science Communication TeachOut
Alan - LLNL nuclear test videos
Rich - The Great A.I. Awakening \xa0(Artificial neural network; DeepDream; DeepDream images)
Dickson\xa0- Cassini images
Paul - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Vincent\xa0-\xa0Google rewrites search rankings; Senator Whitehouse on politics of climate change
Anthony\xa0-\xa0Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Weather Monitor Kit
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees.
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