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TWiV 939: From lizards to Lassa with Tom Monath

25 September 2022 by Vincent Racaniello

Tom Monath joins TWiV to discuss his wide-ranging career that includes medicine, field work and vaccine development while working for the US government, the US military, and multiple biotechnology companies.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Guest: Tom Monath

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: Acambis, COVID-19, dengue vaccine, ebola virus, Lassa virus, NewLink Genetics, vaccine, vaccine platform, viral, virology, virus, viruses, yellow fever virus

TWiV 891: LLOV in the time of Ebola

21 April 2022 by Vincent Racaniello

Elke, Adam, and Gabor join TWiV to discuss their work on Lloviu virus, a filovirus, including recovery of infectious virus from a DNA copy of the genome and from Schreiber’s bats in Hungary.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guests: Elke Muhlberger, Adam Hume, and Gabor Kemenesi

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: ebola virus, filovirus, host range, Lloviu virus, Schreiber's bats, spillover, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoonosis

New Drugs for Treating Ebola Virus Infection

5 September 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

Ebolavirusby Gertrud U. Rey

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently experiencing its worst outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history. More than 3,000 people have been infected with the virus, and nearly 1,900 have died since the outbreak began in 2018.

[Read more…] about New Drugs for Treating Ebola Virus Infection

Filed Under: Basic virology, Information Tagged With: antiviral antibodies, ebola virus, mAb-114, monoclonal antibody, neutralizing antibodies, non-neutralizing antibodies, passive vaccine, REGN-EB3, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 557: Congress in Rotterdam

22 July 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

From the European Congress of Virology in Rotterdam, Vincent and local co-host Ben Berkhout speak with Ron Fouchier, Rosina Girones, and Marie-Paule Kieny about their careers and their work on influenza virus, environmental virology, and developing an Ebola virus vaccine during an epidemic.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: antigenic drift, ebola virus, environmental virology, epidemic, global health, H2N2, influenza virus, pandemic, vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses, viruses in water

TWiV 515: When virus is in retrograde

14 October 2018 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiV team notes the passing of Tom Steitz, an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis in the US, a continuing Ebola virus outbreak in DRC, respiratory vaccinia due to inhalation of ground up rabbit skin, and how a human papillomavirus capsid protein directs virus-containing endosomes towards the nucleus.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: capsid protein L2, cell penetrating peptide, DRC, ebola virus, HPV, human papillomavirus, outbreak, rabbit skin, respiratory vaccinia, retrograde transport, retromer, Tom Steitz, trans-Golgi network, vaccine, vaccinia virus, viral, virology, virus, virus entry, viruses

TWiV 507: The fusion of form and function

19 August 2018 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiV team discuss the biology of Ebola viruses, and how localization of the membrane proteins of vaccinia virus drive function: the fusion machinery sits at the tips of virions, and binding proteins are at the sides.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: ebola virus, fusion machinery, membrane protein, outbreak, polarized virus proteins, Smithsonian Institution, spillover, super-resolution microscopy, vaccinia virus, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoonosis

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