TWiV 422: Watching the icosahedron drop
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVestigators wrap up 2016 with a discussion of the year's ten compelling virology stories.
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Should auld infections be forgot
And never T-cells primed?
Will cross-reacting antigens
Protect the host next time?
- Register for ASV 2017
- ASM-ASV Conference on Interplay of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens
- Ten virology stories from 2016
- Zika virus (first covered in 2015, TWiV 368)
- Ebolavirus
- Eukaryotic genes in Wolbachia phage (TWiV 412)
- Harold "400" Varmus (TWiV 400) and many other guests
- Vaccines
- Mutualism
- Mosquitoes and viruses
- Vector victorious (TWiV 401)
- Animal models of virus infections
- Virus evolution
- Current Zika virus infections (ECDC)
- Early Zika virus infections in Hawaii (PLoS NTD)
- Zika virus vaccine for whom? (NYTimes)
- Final results for Ebola virus vaccine (Lancet)
- Photo from Mohammad
- Letters read on TWiV 422
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