TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 8 minutes
TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm. Links for this episode: High diversity of West...
TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material. Links for this episode: (PLoS One) King Richard III (CNN) Discovery of (Mem Inst...
TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes mice to lose their aversion to cat urine, even after the parasites have been cleared. Links for this episode: T. gondii in mice...
TWiP 59: Apicomplexity
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite...
TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares
Hosts: and Guest: Cali Despommier Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, and Dickson reads a chapter from his new book. Links for this...
TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson review a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by the single-celled coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. The day after recording this episode, that the outbreak of...
TWiP 56: Whirling disease
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson discuss Myxobolus cerebralis, the parasite that causes whirling disease of salmonids. Links for this episode: (Wikipedia) Fish (Wikipedia) Trout with (YouTube) Letters...
TWiP 55: A ladybird's weapon
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson reveal how invasive harlequin ladybirds use biological weapons against their competitors. Links for this episode: Invasive Harlequin Ladybirds' (Science) Immunity...
TWiP 54: Unde venis?
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson consider a case history of a young man with Blastocystis hominis - is it causing his disease? Links for this episode: (Wikipedia) Blastocystis (Trends Parasitol) on TWiP...
TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding that immunity to a sandfly salivary protein protects against fatal visceral leishmaniasis in hamsters. Links for this episode: Immunity to a salivary protein (PNAS) Image...