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 1 hour 29 minutes
TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts
Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to malaria resistance, and inhibition of innate immune responses by an enzyme from trypanosomes. Links for this episode: microRNAs involved in to Plasmodium (Cell...
TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more. Links for this episode: required by Leishmania (Ann Rev...
TWiP 41: Flying and crawling beasts
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson review medically important arthropods. Links for this episode: in insects (jpg) in an insect with aquatic immature stages (jpg) in an insect with terrestrial immature stages...
TWiP 40: Doctor, there's a worm in my eye!
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson discuss loaiasis caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa. Right-click to download (52 MB .mp3, 73 minutes). Links for this episode: for US-bound refugees (NEJM) of Loa...
TWiP 39: I encyst, said the amoeba
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of the amoebae Naegleria fowlerii and Acanthamoeba castellani. Links for this episode: N. fowlerii (CDC) N. fowlerii...
TWiP 38: How to Trichomonas
Hosts: and Vincent and Dickson tackle the backlog of listener email, then consider the life cycle and pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis, the flagellated protozoan transmitted by sexual contact. Links for this...
TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis
Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Dracunculus medinensis, the filarial nematode that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease. Links for this episode: Dracunculus (jpg) Dracunculus...
TWiP 36: Trichuris and microbes plan a hatch
Vincent and Dickson review how gut bacteria help establish T. muris in the large intestine of mice.
TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock
Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria with their Columbia University colleague .
TWiP #34 - Up against the Wolbachia
Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria and filariasis with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.