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TWiV 232: Gophers go viral

12 May 2013 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #232 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent meets up with Roberto, Reuben, Lou, and Leslie at the University of Minnesota to talk about their work on HIV-1, APOBEC proteins, measles virus, and teaching virology to undergraduates.

You can find TWiV #232 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: antiviral therapy, apobec, deamination, error threshold, HIV-1, human immunodeficiency virus, Institute of molecular virology, measles virus receptor, mutation, nectin-4, teaching, University of Minnesota, viral, virology, virus

TWiV 166: Breaking and entering

15 January 2012 by Vincent Racaniello

npc1 ebolaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses.

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Links for this episode:

  • Niemann-Pick C1 is entry factor for HCV (Nature Med)
  • Ebola virus entry requires Niemann-Pick C1 (Nature one, two)
  • Nectin-4 is measles virus epithelial receptor (Nature, PLoS Pathogens)
  • An exit strategy for measles virus (Science)
  • On this day in history
  • TWiV on Facebook
  • Letters read on TWiV 166

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: ebola virus, HCV, hepatitis C virus, measles, nectin-4, niemann-pick, podcast, receptor, TWiV, viral, virology, virus

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