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

Weekly Science Picks 1:18:35, 1:45:30

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?

Listener Pick of the Week

Reed - The Bench Warmers Podcast

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