Jeffery Taubenberger @ NIH Video Cast 11/8/06

[sharon sanders]

Very informative. Watch this video cast as part of the NIH Great Teachers Series. Click on Search and enter the words:

great teacher


Scroll down to this event. It is a "must see".

Taubenberger published the sequences in 2005 from the 1918 pandemic. He is now working on expanding that sequencing effort.

http://www.videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=998

 

[JJackson]

Re: Jeffery Taubenberger @ NIH Video Cast 11/8/06

If you are interested in the relationships between sequence changes and changes in binding specificity this is a must see.
A lot of interesting work is being undertaken on the structural changes leading upto and after the pandemic which should show the effects of forced drift as the population shifts from immunologically nieve to savy. This ongoing research should also shed light on the process of aclimatisation and re-balance to a new host species which could be useful in planning as a pandemic flu strain becomes a seasonal flu.