TWiV 670: Coronavirus vaccine preparedness with Kizzmekia Corbett
Kizzmekia Corbett joins TWiV to review her career and her work on respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, and coronaviruses and coronavirus vaccines, including her role in development and testing of a spike-encoding mRNA vaccine, and then we review the Nobel Prize for discovery of hepatitis C virus.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and Brianne Barker
Guest: Kizzmekia Corbett
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Links for this episode
- Pre-fusion structure of CoV spike (Nature)
- Pre-fusion structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike (Science)
- Evaluation of mRNA-1273 in nonhuman primates (NEJM)
- SARS-CoV-2 vaccine from pandemic preparedness (Nature)
- Nanoparticulate universal influenza vaccine from stem antigens (mBio)
- Biological safety officer position at Columbia U
- Medicine Nobel Prize for Hepatitis C virus (pdf)
- Alter's work on non-A non-B hepatitis (paper one, paper two)
- Houghton: single clone of HCV genome (Science)
- Rice: Transmission of hepatitis C to chimpanzee (Science)
- Charlie Rice on TWiV 392
- Chemistry Nobel Prize to Doudna and Charpentier (Nobel.org)
- FDA releases stricter guidelines for COVID-19 vaccines (NY Times, FDA pdf)
- Bullet points of Das coronavirus
- Recovery of 1918 influenza virus stories (one, two)
- Letters read on TWiV 670
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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