TWiV 1005: COVID T vax and a virus from the blue

TWiV reveals plankton-infecting relatives of herpesviruses in the sunlit oceans, and a vaccine encoding non-spike T cell antigens that protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• Register for ASV 2023
• Research assistant position at FDA (pdf)
• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Mirusviruses link herpesvirus to giant viruses (Nature)
• Tara Oceans expeditions
• T cell vaccine protects against severe COVID (Cell)
• Letters read on TWiV 1005
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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