TWiV

twiv-200If you’d like to learn even more virology by listening, check out the podcast, This Week in Virology, also known as TWiV. It’s a weekly conversation about viruses, hosted by two Columbia University Professors, Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, a science writer, and University of Florida Professor Rich Condit.

There are many ways to listen to TWiV:

Whichever way you choose, you’ll get the latest information from the only podcast dedicated to helping you understand all about viruses – the kind that make you sick.

  • agnetalindhag

    Hi there, I am layman (or rather a laywoman) from Sweden, eager follower both to your podcast-sessions and your lectures on virology blog. Thanks for this fantastisc initiative!
    I have a question to you: Dr Henry L Niman, a flu tracker and Ph D from Pennsylvania
    http://www.recombinomics.com/whats_new.html
    is very critical to WHO's standpoint in saying that the severe RBD D225G and D225N in H1N1 are spontanous and random. He argues that labtests published on GISAID prove that there is transmission due to several cases close in both time and space.

    http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.p…

    Have you any comments on that?

  • agnetalindhag

    Hi there, I am layman (or rather a laywoman) from Sweden, eager follower both to your podcast-sessions and your lectures on virology blog. Thanks for this fantastisc initiative!
    I have a question to you: Dr Henry L Niman, a flu tracker and Ph D from Pennsylvania
    http://www.recombinomics.com/whats_new.html
    is very critical to WHO's standpoint in saying that the severe RBD D225G and D225N in H1N1 are spontanous and random. He argues that labtests published on GISAID prove that there is transmission due to several cases close in both time and space.

    http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.p…

    Have you any comments on that?

  • Anonymous

    i have a doubt of a kind…suppose an outbreak has occurred and is of mild or huge mortality. and the causative agent is found to be a virus…but the one not present in all known virus database… then how to characterize this unknown virus (like have DNA or RNA genome, whether segmented or continious, surface proteins it possess for attachment to host cell, no of protein subunits it encodes, etc) and how to step for its diagnosis typically during an outbreak situation…?