TWiV 954: Speculating sarbecovirus spillovers with Michael Letko

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Michael Letko joins TWiV to discuss his research on understanding cell receptors required for sarbecovirus entry, including an ACE2-dependent isolate from Russian bats that is resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Michael Letko

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Michael Letko joins TWiV to discuss his research on understanding cell receptors required for sarbecovirus entry, including an ACE2-dependent isolate from Russian bats that is resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Michael Letko

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email

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Links for this episode Weekly Picks

Brianne – Sometimes This Octopus is So Mad it Just Wants to Throw Something or The Cosmic Bat Nebula Kathy – APODs Jupiter, Lunar Eclipse Blood Moon, Ice Giant Rich – Mirror-image T7 transcription of chirally inverted ribosomal and functional RNAs (Wiki: Mirror Life) Vincent – The 2022-2023 Respiratory Virus Season Hits Early and Hard: Part 1

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Debby – Celebrate Bob McDonald's 30 years as host of Quirks & Quarks

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

2022-11-13 110 min
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