This Week in Virology

TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.

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TWiV #54 - Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary


Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way he did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses.

Links for this episode:

  • Holliday junction
  • Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA
  • Restriction enzymes
  • Movies of herpesvirus movement in nerve cells
  • The 'other' Enquist lab
  • Can you find the TWiV 54 hosts in this photo?
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 October 18, 2009  1h27m