This Week in Virology

The TWiVumvirate discuss the giant Tupanvirus, with the longest tail in the known virosphere, and dampened STING dependent interferon activation in bats.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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• ASM Microbe 2018
• Tailed giant Tupanvirus (Nat Commun)
• Soda Lakes (Wikipedia)
• Dampened STING in bats (Cell Host Microbe)
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• Letters read on TWiV 484

Kathy - How to read a phylogenetic tree Brianne - No immune overload for vaccines Dickson - Flowchart of viral families Alan - Letters to a Pre-Scientist Vincent - True believers, entrepreneurs, and scammers in alternative medicine and Simply Put: Vaccines Save Lives

Vinayaka - Code of Ethics for Young Scientists Matt - TWiV 443

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Vincent and the Virals review undermining of antiviral effectiveness by genital inflammation, and heterogeneity of influenza virus infection in single cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

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• USA Science and Engineering Festival
• Genital inflammation and antiviral effectiveness (Nat Med)
• Single cell infection heterogeneity (eLife)
• Single-cell poliovirus infection (Virology)
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• Letters read on TWiV 483

Kathy - Dance Dance Rich - Snopes Alan - Next Generation Science Standards Vincent - TWiEVO 28: Genetics of skin pigmentation in Africa

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The TWiV Masters discuss serologic evidence of Ebolavirus infection in a population with no outbreaks, and the set of endogenous viral elements in the mosquito genome.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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• Ebolavirus infection without an outbreak (J Inf Dis)
• A. aegypti EVEome (Curr Biol)
• One Loop to Rule Them All (Trends Biochem Sci)
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Kathy - Origami sound barrier Brianne - iBiology Dickson - Switched-on bats Alan - Hawaii's communication breakdown Vincent - Inside the Federal Bureau of way too many guns and What I Saw Treating Parkland Victims

Johnye - Debunking Anti-Vaxxers

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The TWiVodrome considers the intestinal tract as an alternative infection route for MERS coronavirus, and how reduced accumulation of defective viral RNAs might lead to severe influenza.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• HaHa influenza virus (mBio)
• MERS coronavirus intestinal transmission (Sci Adv)
• Simulated gastric and intestinal fluids
• Stomacher
• Defective genomes and severe influenza (PLoS Path)
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• Letters read on TWiV 481

Kathy - CD45.1 and CD45.2 mice may not be functionally equivalent Rich - Relative humidity versus dewpoint (video) Dickson - Underwater photography winners Alan - Photo of a single atom Vincent - Proposed Federal science budget cuts and The Blog is Dead

Jess - Louis Tompkins Wright

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Scott Hensley joins the TWiVites to review the current influenza season and presence of the virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic cases.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Scott Hensley

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• Weekly influenza surveillance (CDC)
• Influenza vaccination status (CDC)
• H3N2 glycosylation site and eggs (PNAS)
• Influenza virus in exhaled breath (PNAS)
• Geometric Defects and Icosahedral Viruses (Viruses)
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• Letters read on TWiV 480

Kathy - Flow Virometry Rich - Falcon Heavy Launch links: Flight diagram; Launch including booster landing; Tesla in space; Tesla orbit; Reusable booster failures; Booster size Dickson - Next generation of weapons Alan - Ed Yong's story on fixing gender imbalance in science reporting Vincent - CD4 Hunter iOS Android

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The TWiVome explores induction of antiviral responses by repeating patterns of capsids, and a fungus in the mosquito gut that aids dengue virus replication.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Innate immune detection of capsid patterns (mBio)
• Mosquito gut fungus aids dengue virus replication (eLife)
• Nominate MicrobeTV for a Keck award
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Kathy - Great Lakes, false color Rich - Times 360 Lego factory tour Dickson - 3D printed houses Alan - The new terms for trust in journalism Vincent - A Tale of Two Cultures and Why Science Blogging Still Matters

Jolene - Immune Quest

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The TWiV team explains how infectious horsepox virus - likely the ancestor of smallpox vaccines - was recovered from chemically synthesized DNA fragments.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Potential Zika virus related birth defects, USA (MMWR)
• Bordering on an outbreak (Tex Obs)
• Horsepox virus from synthesized DNA (PLoS One)
• Horsepox based smallpox vaccine (NEJM)
• Has horsepox become extinct? (Vet Rec)
• Evolutionary path of smallpox vaccines (Lancet Inf Dis)
• Equination (Vaccine)
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Kathy - UM EEB photo contest Rich - Dino-Lite digital microscope and digital microscope camera Dickson - Sandford Photography Alan - A list of female virologists Vincent - Virology Lectures 2018

Andrew - Interferome Neva - The Untreatable by Gavin Francis

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The TWiVodrome explains how a gag-like protein from a retrotransposon forms virus-like particles that carry mRNA within vesicles across the synapse.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Arc virus-like particles transport RNA across the synapse (mammalian, Drosophila)
• Chemical synapse (Wikipedia)
• 2 minute video on the neuron
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• Letters read on TWiV 477

Kathy - Ice cliffs form over the weekend Rich - The Courage To Invent: A NASA Roboticist Tells Her Story (Ayanna Howard) Dickson - 2017 Was One of the Hottest Years on Record Alan - Experimenter gender and replicability Vincent - Set Your Autocorrect to Change 'Guys' to 'Folks'

Asal - 100 million chickens with avian flu Mark - Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

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Nels joins the TWiV team to talk about his work on genomic accordions in vaccinia virus, hepatitis B virus in a 439 year old mummy, and viral induction of energy synthesis by a long noncoding RNA.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Nels Elde

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• TWiV is a must-listen (WaPo)
• More on poxvirus accordions (bioRxiv)
• HBV from a 439 year old mummy (PLoS Path)
• lncRNA promotes viral replication by inducing metabolism (Science)
• Making Data Visual
• Letters read on TWiV 476

Nels - Everyday Evolution Kathy - Paper-fold an ellipse Rich - Oxford Nanopore Technologies: YouTube channel; General technology; DNA sequencing; Sequencing singularity Dickson - Spiders that look like pelicans Alan - Guessing pool for China Spacelab reentry Vincent - How to take a picture of the stealth bomber over the rose bowl

Gretchen - The Bearded Lady Project

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In the first episode for 2018, the TWiV team reviews the amazing virology stories of 2017.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

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• Virology stories of 2017 - in no particular order
  1. A virologist in space - TWiV 444
  2. Cool things viruses do: Astrovirus capsids are enterotoxins TWiV 423; giant Klosneuviruses encode lots of stuff for translation TWiV 437; Giant Noumeaviruses quickly make the nucleus temporarily leaky TWiV 440
  3. TWiV 438 Drs. TWiV go to Washington and the March for Science
  4. Unexpected stuff: TWiV 451 Expectorate the unexpected; TWiV 470 Just a passing phage; TWiV 456 Be careful of canons; TWiV 455 Pork and genes; TWiV 432 gamete fusion protein from viruses
  5. TWiV 443 On a leaf no one can hear you scream. The puppet master.
  6. TWiV 448 Mavis the structure maven
  7. Viruses are us: TWiV 472 Riddle of the skinks; TWiV 439 The purloined envelope; TWiV 434 Live long and pupate
  8. Antiviral RNA: TWiV 433 Poops viruses and worms; TWiV 449 The sound of non-silencing; TWiV 450 Ben tenOever and RNA out
  9. Viruses as tools: TWiV 461 Gotta trace them all
  10. Flaviviruses: TWiV 473, 471, 468; 458; 454; 451; 432; 430; 429; 426
• NSF survey of earned doctorates
• Letters read on TWiV 475

Kathy - Voyager recording and book Rich - David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (Maktao) Dickson - Global Croplands Map Alan - The Great Influenza one day at a time Vincent - The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

Mark - Science Moms and Science of HIV Andy - Ask Me Anything Steve - Critical Attitude in Medicine

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The TWiVanguardians take on Bodo saltans virus, a leviathan which infects an abundant flagellated eukaryote in Earth's waters.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

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• Anti-dengue antibody and disease (J Inf Dis)
• Bodo saltans virus (biorXiv)
• Kinetoplast DNA (Euk Cell)
• Crossword puzzle for book contest (pdf)
• Letters read on TWiV 474

Kathy - Every second Dickson - Top 10 Science Images 2017 Alan - Shortwave Radiogram Vincent - Science March on Instagram

Islam - Class Crossword (Armored Penguin) Peter - The Last of the Iron Lungs

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The Fellowship of the Virus discuss enhancement of dengue disease in humans: the contribution of antibody concentration and increased binding to Fc receptors.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• NEIDL is approved
• NIH lifts GOF moratorium (Science)
• Blackburn steps down as head of Salk Institute (SD Union Trib)
• ADE of dengue disease in humans (Science)
• Commentary on ADE of dengue disease (Science)
• ADE of dengue disease and antibody binding to Fc (Science)
• Letters read on TWiV 473

Kathy - Today in Science History Dickson - 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017 Rich - SpaceX to orbit a Tesla Alan - Debt in America Vincent - The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols (NYTimes review)

Stephen - A Concise Paper Johnye - Holiday song parodies (one, two, three) Tom - SMBC: Are viruses alive?

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Vincent speaks with professional podcast producer Ray Ortega about his career and the power of the podcast.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Ray Ortega

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The TWiV team reveal the origin of the poxvirus membrane, and how a retrovirus drove the development of the placenta of a lizard.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Origin of poxvirus membrane (PNAS)
• Poxvirus movies: Movie S1, Movie S2, Movie S3, Movie S4, Movie S5
• Lizard placenta from a retrovirus (PNAS)
• Letters read on TWiV 472

Kathy - Google doodles Discoverer of photosynthesis Robert Koch Dickson - Nature Photography Winners Rich - The Raging Idiots Planet Song Alan - Zooborns Vincent - Glass Insects and Plants by Yuki Tsunoda

Scott - Sagan Series Paul - SMBC Comics Trudy - If Scientists Wrote Christmas Songs

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The TWiVerinos discuss restriction of dengue virus vaccine by Sanofi, and data which suggest that Dengvaxia causes enhanced disease in previously uninfected recipients.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Sanofi update on Dengvaxia
• Trouble for dengue vaccine (Reuters)
• Sanofi restricts dengue vaccine (CIDRAP)
• Dengvaxia enhances disease (Vaccine)
• Interview with Jeff Almond
• Dengue vaccine on TWiV 319, TWiV 370, TWIV 384
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Kathy - NASA is reinventing the wheel Dickson - Stunning neuroscience images Rich - Moneyball by Michael Lewis (film) Alan - Diverse Sources Vincent - Zombie gene protects elephants from cancer (Quanta, TWiEVO)

Scott - Why Vaccines Matter by Cynthia Gorney and The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen.

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The TWiV ninjas reveal that bacteriophage particles rapidly move across monolayers of eukaryotic cells from different tissues.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Transcytosis of bacteriophage across cell layers (mBio)
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Kathy - Photo of 3200 year-old tree in one image Dickson - Microsculpture Rich - A Short History Of Humans And Germs Alan - Planets app Vincent - Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting

Basel - Joint Pathology Center John - OpenStax

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The TWiV hosts discuss a plant virus that infects a fungus, and whether you need to work insane hours to succeed in science.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Phytopathogenic fungus hosts a plant virus (PNAS)
• Franklin column (PNAS)
• Potato famine mystery solved (History)
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• You do not need to work 80 hours per week (THE)
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying (Sci Am)
• Image credit: Truth Wins by Jon Yewdell
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Amy joins the TWiV team to talk about her career and her work on Zika virus neurotropism using embryonic mouse organotypic brain slice cultures.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Amy Rosenfeld

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Jon and Teddy Yewdell join the TWiV team to talk about their careers, their research, and the problems with biomedical research.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove,and Rich Condit

Guest: Jon Yewdell and Teddy Yewdell

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From Indiana University, Vincent and Kathy speak with Tuli Mukhopadhyay, John Patton, and Adam Zlotnick about their careers and their work on alphaviruses, hepatitis B virus, and rotaviruses.

Host: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Tuli Mukhopadhyay, John Patton, and Adam Zlotnick

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Theodora Hatziioannou joins the TWiV team to discuss a macaque model for AIDS, and how a cell protein that blocks HIV-1 infection interacts with double-stranded RNA.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Theodora Hatziioannou

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At Tufts University Dental School in Boston, Vincent speaks with Katya Heldwein and Sean Whelan about their careers and their work on herpesvirus structure and replication of vesicular stomatitis virus.

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The TWiViridae review the 2017 Nobel Prizes for cryoEM and circadian rhythms, and discuss modulation of plant virus replication by RNA methylation.

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David Tuller returns to discuss his efforts to expose the methodological and ethical problems with the PACE trial for ME/CFS.

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Guest: David Tuller

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Vincent speaks with 1993 Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp about his career and his seminal discovery of RNA splicing in mammalian cells, which changed our understanding of gene structure.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Phillip A. Sharp

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The TWiVers discuss the declining readability of scientific texts, and review the use of self-inactivating rabies virus for tracing neural circuits.

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

Guest: Brianne Barker

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Vincent travels to the University of Pennsylvania and speaks with virologists Gary Cohen, Scott Hensley, Carolina Lopez, and Susan Weiss about their careers and their research.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Gary Cohen, Scott Hensley, Carolina Lopez, and Susan Weiss

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The TWiV team reviews the first FDA approved gene therapy, accidental exposure to poliovirus type 2 in a manufacturing plant, and production of a candidate poliovirus vaccine in plants.

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The TWiVians present an imported case of yellow fever in New York City, and explain how a dengue virus subgenomic RNA disrupts immunity in mosquito salivary glands to increase virus replication.

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Kathy - Antibody validation Editorial Asilomar meeting report Dickson - Despommierphotoart.com Alan - NOAA Hurricane Hunters Rich - Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (encephalitis lethargica) Vincent - Goodnight Lab by Chris Ferrie

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Brianne returns to the TWiV Gang to discuss the distribution of proteins on the influenza viral genome, and the evolution of myxoma virus that was released in Australia to control the rabbit population.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

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Brianne - 3D printed viruses Dickson - Secrets of Schooling Alan - Making sails in the Nevada desert Rich - David Vetter isolation suit (Wiki) Vincent - Confounds the Science

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Brianne joins the TWiVMasters to explain how mutations in genes encoding RNA polymerase III predispose children to severe varicella, and detection of an RNA virus by a DNA sensor.

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Guest: Brianne Barker

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• RNA pol III mutations underlie severe varicella (J Clin Inves)
• Dengue virus activates cGAS by release of mitochondrial DNA (Sci Rep)
• Dengue virus NS2B protein targets cGAS for degradation (Nat Micr)
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Brianne - Up-Goer Five Challenge (related to Thing Explainer) Rich - The Farthest: Voyager in Space and Vipassana Momma: Science Vincent - Episode of Revisionist History: The Basement Tapes

Jennie - What Piece of Lab Equipment Are You?

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Erin joins the TWiVirions to discuss a computer exploit encoded in DNA, creation of pigs free of endogenous retroviruses, and mutations in the gene encoding an innate sensor of RNA in children with severe viral respiratory disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Erin Garcia

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• DNA-based computer exploit (pdf)
• Inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus in pigs (Science)
• Severe viral respiratory infections in children with IFIH1 mutations (PNAS)
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Erin - What If? by Randall Monroe Rich - Art.Science.Gallery (J. Haley Gillespie) Kathy - Astronomy photographer of the year shortlist Alan - Upcoming Eclipses Vincent - Ford Thunderbird Automatic Transmission Rebuild

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Sharon and Scott return to TWiV for a Zika virus update, including their work on viral evolution and spread, and whether pre-existing immunity to dengue virus enhances pathogenesis.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Sharon Isern and Scott Michael

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• No ADE by dengue antibodies in Zika virus patients (Clin Inf Dis)
• Oropharyngeal mucosal transmission of Zika virus in rhesus macaques (Nat Commun)
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Dickson - Industrial Scars Kathy - Eclipse info by zipcode Sharon - Michaela's article in The Conversation Scott - Signal P, Pecaan, Phamerator, DNAmasterAlan - The Eagle Whisperer" (and the Great Big Story channel) Vincent - Bottle

Kevin - Tenure track scientist bites the dust

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From the Vector-Borne Viruses Symposium in Hamilton, Montana, Dickson and Vincent speak with Diane Griffin about her career and her work on understanding viral infections of the central nervous system.

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Lynda Coughlan joins the weekly virtual bus companions for a discussion of a host defense peptide from frogs that destroys influenza virus, and mouse models for acute and chronic hepacivirus infection.

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Guest: Lynda Coughlan

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• Urumi
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• Mouse model for hepacivirus infection (Science)
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Kathy - US rivers as subway map Lynda - No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot Alan - Apollo-era computers found in dead engineer's basement Vincent - 110 NFL Brains, research article in JAMA and The best science is often accidental

Stig - Security Now! and The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee Ricardo - John Oliver on Vaccines

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The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.

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• Driving past a milestone (TWiP 100)
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• Hypovirus molecular biology (Adv Virus Res)
• Mosquitoes transmit unique WNV populations (Cell Rep)
• Teaching science using pseudoscience
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Kathy - Approaching Jupiter and Michigan parents about vaccination Rich - Math Limericks from Futility Closet Alan - NASA flyover of Pluto Vincent - Talk show host nominated as USDA chief scientist

Neil - These smart girls are here to debunk anti-vaxxer nonsense John - John Sever AMA

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Ben tenOever joins the TWiVoli to discuss the evolution of RNA interference and his lab's finding that RNAse III nucleases, needed for the maturation of cellular RNAs, are an ancient antiviral RNA recognition platform in all domains of life.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Ben tenOever

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• RNAseIII is an ancient antiviral effector (Nature)
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Ben - Invisible Invaders by Peter Radetsky Kathy - ASV 2017 Virolympics Crossword solved (pdf) and National Museum of the Air Force Rich - Columbia river gorge and Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose Dickson - All the World's Earthquakes Alan - Map of Roman roads Vincent - Brain atlas of fly behavior

Rob - Vaccinate Your Kids and Charles Darwin Natural Selection Islam - Self-assembling virus and Virus Patterns

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The TWiV Council explores the finding that facial appearance affects science communication, and evidence that RNA interference confers antiviral immunity in mammalian cells.

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• Press release on science meeting gender disparity
• The Traditional Lecture is Not Dead. I Would Know – I'm A Professor (virology blog)
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Kathy - ASV 2017 Virolympics Crossword (pdf) Dickson - The Visible Mouse Alan - Is profitable publishing bad for science? Vincent - Locally Sourced Science

Neva - Michael Summers interview and Virus coloring book

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From ASV 2017 in Madison, Wisconsin, the complete TWiV team speaks with Mavis Agbandje-McKenna about her career and her work solving virus structures by x-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy.

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Kathy - Doktor Kaboom! Dickson - Mars as you've never seen it before Alan - Eclipse 2017 Rich - Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Vincent - Research!America

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The glorious TWiVerati un-impact their email backlog, anwering questions about viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, viruses, and more. You should listen - our fans ask great questions!

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• Predatory journals recruit fake editor
• Photo by Anthony Olszewski
• Letters read on TWiV 447

Kathy - Oskar Fischinger Google Doodle Dickson - Ten Tiny But Terrifying Micro Monsters Alan - Hunting mammoth ivory in Siberia Rich - Occam's razor Vincent - Blame vax for illness without proof, says EU

Ed - Lysenkoism

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The TWiV hosts review an analysis of gender parity trends at virology conferences, and the origin and unusual pathogenesis of the 1918 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• ASM grant writing online course
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• NIH abandons grant cap (Science)
• Genesis and pathogenesis of 1918 H1N1 influenza virus (PNAS)
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Kathy - BioKids Critter Catalog Dickson - Shanghai Vertical Farm Alan - Colossal Cave Adventure open source Rich - Life on Mars (HI-SEAS) Vincent - TWiM 154 with Arturo Casadevall

Grant - Antibody validation challenges

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From Nido2017 in Kansas City, Vincent meets up with three virologists to talk about their careers and their work on nidoviruses.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Margo Brinton, Luis Enjuanes, and Linda Saif

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• Murine flavivirus resistance gene (PNAS)
• TIA-1/TIAR binding sites in West Nile virus RNA (J Virol)
• Infectious coronavirus DNA in BAC (PNAS)
• Norovirus binding to lettuce (Appl Env Micro)

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From ASM Microbe 2017 at New Orleans, Vincent and Rich meet up with astronaut Kate Rubins to talk about becoming an astronaut, space travel, and doing science in space.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guest: Kate Rubins

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David Tuller returns to discuss the continuing saga of the UK's PACE trial for chronic fatigue syndrome, including the accusation that he is engaging in libelous blogging.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: David Tuller

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The TWiVsters reveal the puppet master: an RNA virus injected with wasp eggs that paralyzes the ladybug so that she protects the cocoon until the adult emerges.

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Kathy - Science Showcase Video Contest Alan - Biochemical pathways on one chart Rich - 35th America's Cup Vincent - Viruses (pdf) and A whole new Jupiter

Peter - Fake typhoid epidemic saves Polish city and Life gets complicated when disease overruns your town Ralph - Dilbert on climate change

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Freelance science journalist Tim Requarth joins the TWiVers to explain why scientists should stop thinking that explaining science will fix information illiteracy.

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Guest: Tim Requarth

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• Science curiosity and political information processing (Political Psychol)
• Teaching science using pseudoscience (D. Duncan)
• Letters read on TWiV 442

Kathy - Life Saver Lightning Alan - Model rocket engine burning in slow-mo Rich - scistarter Vincent - The quest to wipe out a virus and FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality

Robert - Zika presentation

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The Beacons of Viral Education (aka the TWiVoners) reveal a cost of being a male mouse - the Y chromosome regulates their susceptibility to influenza virus infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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• ASM Grant Writing Online Course
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• Consomic strains (Mamm Genome)
• Giants among viruses (TWiV 261)
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Kathy - Social science research on "luck" in motherhood Alan - Foiling dinghy built by engineering students (video) Rich - Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) Vincent - Make measles great again in Michigan and Which tech giant would you drop?

Steven - Difficult truths about a post-truth world

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No problem being nice to Dickson in this episode, because he's absent for a discussion of a new giant virus that replicates in the cytoplasm yet transiently accesses the nucleus to bootstrap infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Kathy - U-M Rubik's Cube story #1 video #2 video #3 video Alan - You're not going to believe this Rich - High School student builds robot to solve Rubrik's cube Vincent - NIH limits grant money and The abomination of a bill

Ken - The Fab Lab with Crazy Aunt LindseyLaurel - Sally Hoskin's CREATE programMaureen - Simple Science Experiments You Can Do With Eggs Before Breakfast

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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: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Paul Bieniasz

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• Letters read on TWiV 439

Kathy - UM Science Communication TeachOut Alan - LLNL nuclear test videos Rich - The Great A.I. Awakening (Artificial neural network; DeepDream; DeepDream images) Dickson - Cassini imagesPaul - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Vincent - Google rewrites search rankings; Senator Whitehouse on politics of climate change

Anthony - Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Weather Monitor Kit

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On the eve of the March for Science, the TWiV team gathers at ASM Headquarters in Washington, DC with guests Stefano and Susie to talk about the state of science communication.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Guests: Stefano Bertuzzi and Susan Sharp

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• What exactly are people marching for (Atlantic)
• Explaining science won't fix information illiteracy
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Alan - Steve Ballmer's government data project (NYTimes article) Rich - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Dickson - Shanghai vertical farming Vincent - Right-to-try sham and NASA mediaStefano - Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not and The Path Between the Seas Susan - Rick and Morty

Johnye - A capella CRISPR/Cas9

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