Hosts:Â Vincent Racaniello, Roger Hendrix, Rachel Katzenellenbogen, and Harmit Malik
Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncogenesis by human papillomaviruses, the amazing collection of bacteriophages on the planet, and the evolution of genetic conflict between virus and host.
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Links for this episode:
- Papillomavirus E6 proteins (Virology)
- Diversity of mycobacteriophages (PLoS One)
- Adaptive evolution of tetherin (J Virology)
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 135
- Video of this episode – view below
Weekly Science Picks
Roger – Atomic structure of adenovirus by cry0-EM (Science)
Harmit – Syncytin knockout mice show role for endogenous retroviral gene (PNAS)
Vincent – Free science, one paper at a time by David Dobbs
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark  – Shot by Shot
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Vincent, thanks so much for making me your pick. Means a lot coming from you. Really glad you enjoyed the article, and it’s fun to know it infected you at the bug conference — the one way I have any desire to go viral.Â
Keep up the good work.Â
Best,
David
David, it’s a wonderful story, written in a way that not only brings
out the open-access arguments but the humanity behind it all, in a
sensitive way. Great job. You might want to know why I stumbled on it
– I was at a meeting of the ASM Communications Committee, of which
Jonathan Eisen is also a member. He spoke of one point of his efforts
to obtain his father’s papers, and I started searching for the story
online, and came across your wonderful article. It was the perfect
opportunity to make it a weekly pick, at TWiV live at ASM. Many thanks
for telling the story.