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The lovely TWiV team explore evolution of our fecal virome, and the antiviral RNA interference response in the nematode C. elegans.
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Professor Dickson Despommier, co-host of TWiV and TWiP, and well known for his ideas about vertical farming, taught parasitology to medical, dental, and nursing students at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons for 38 years. Below are videocasts of the six lectures from the final version of his course, Parasitic Diseases, which he taught in the fall of 2009. These are excellent companions to the first 27 episodes of TWiP, which explore the basics of eukaryotic parasites including protozoa, nematodes, cestodes, and trematodes.
Parasitic Diseases Fall 2009 – videocasts
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Lecture 1: Nematodes I – Enterobius, Trichuris, Ascaris, Toxocara (19 MB .mov)
Lecture 2: Nematodes II – Hookworm, Strongyloides (18 MB .mov)
Lecture 3: Cestodes – Taenia, Echinococcus (Joshua Stillman, MD) (19 MB .mov)
Lecture 4: Trematodes – Schistosoma (17 MB .mov)
Lecture 5: The Malarias (19 MB .mov)
Lecture 6: Protozoa – Giardia, Entamoeba, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora (16 MB .mov)
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
On episode #25 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson review Wuchereria bancrofti, the nematode that causes lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
On episode #24 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Onchocerca volvulus, the vector-borne filarial nematode parasite that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich ConditOn episode #123 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes.
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Rich – Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute)
Alan – Hi-definition microscopy movies in 3D
Vincent – Stan Maloy interview with Beatrice Hahn on the origins of HIV and malaria
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson DespommierOn episode 23 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the world’s most unusual parasite, Strongyloides stercoralis.
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