TWiV 356: Got viruses?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Stephanie Neal
Stephanie joins the super professors to discuss the gut virome of children with serious malnutrition, caterpillar genes acquired from parasitic wasps, and the effect of adding chemokines to a simian immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine.
Links for this episode
- Invitrogen Science Hero Awards 15:05
- Gut DNA viromes of twins with severe malnutrition (PNAS) 34:30
- Random forests 48:00
- Wasps engineer caterpillars (PLoS Genetics) 50:20
- Chemokine-adjuvanted SIV DNA vaccine (Mucos Immunol) 1:02:20
- Guide to chemokines (pdf)
- Role for CCR10 in IgA secreting cell accumulation (J Immunol)
- CCL28 controls IgA plasma cell accumulation (J Exp Med)
- In vivo electroporation 1:07:25, 1:09:50
- Kathy's groan (jpg)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 356 14:55
Alan - Plates from Hooke's Micrographia
Rich - The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Kathy - Spore evaporation-driven engines (video and article)
Dickson - Color variations of Pluto and Lunar total eclipse
Stephanie - The science of moldy cheese by Carl Zimmer
Vincent - But Why?
Reed - The Bench Warmers Podcast
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