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TWiV & TWiP Podcasts
# 4015
While I?ve mentioned it a couple of times in the past (here and here), Professor Vincent Racaniello who writes the excellent Virology Blog - which you?ll find in my sidebar - also co-hosts the fascinating TWiV (This Week In Virology) podcast.
Along with Dick Despommier, Racaniello and 1 or 2 guests each week discuss some of the most interesting virology stories of the week. If you aren?t listening, you should be.
There are 58 episodes available. This week?s episode covers:
I?m slowly going back through the archives, trying to catch up. This is a terrific resource for anyone interested virology, or science.
Recent Episodes
If your interests run to parasites (and whose doesn?t?), then you?ll be excited to learn that Racaniello and Despommier have launched TWiP (This week is Parasitism).
Episode 1 is now online
TWiP 1: Introduction to Parasitism
# 4015
While I?ve mentioned it a couple of times in the past (here and here), Professor Vincent Racaniello who writes the excellent Virology Blog - which you?ll find in my sidebar - also co-hosts the fascinating TWiV (This Week In Virology) podcast.
Along with Dick Despommier, Racaniello and 1 or 2 guests each week discuss some of the most interesting virology stories of the week. If you aren?t listening, you should be.
There are 58 episodes available. This week?s episode covers:
- Post-exposure passive antibody therapy for Nipah virus in ferret
- Is yearly influenza vaccination of children a bad idea?
- Debate on N95 masks vs surgical masks to prevent influenza
- Weather patterns help predict dengue outbreaks
- Diverse viral community in Antarctica?s icy lakes (thanks Russ!)
I?m slowly going back through the archives, trying to catch up. This is a terrific resource for anyone interested virology, or science.
Recent Episodes
- TWiV 58: Nipah virus in ferrets
- TWiV 57: Virology in high school
- TWiV 56: Perspicuously perspicacious
- TWiV 55: Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate
- TWiV 54: Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary
- TWiV 53: The ends justify the means
- TWiV 52: Scott Hammer, MD on AIDS vaccines
- TWiV 51: ALVAC-HIV and AIDSVAX B/E
- TWiV 50: XMRV
- TWiV 49: Viral genomes
If your interests run to parasites (and whose doesn?t?), then you?ll be excited to learn that Racaniello and Despommier have launched TWiP (This week is Parasitism).
Episode 1 is now online
TWiP 1: Introduction to Parasitism