episode 465: Theodora the explorer
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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Links for this episode- ASU-UofA Joint Virology Symposium
- Laboratory of Retrovirology, Rockefeller University
- HIV-1-induced AIDS in monkeys (Science)
- APOBEC3H bound to duplex RNA (Nat Comm)
- Center for HIV RNA studies
- Image: Two molecules of APOBEC3H bound to dsRNA
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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