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TWiV 946: Poo vs flu

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Angela Mingarelli joins TWiV to discuss whether the gut microbiota of bats confers tolerance to influenza virus infection in mice, and primate hemorrhagic fever-causing arteriviruses that can reproduce in human cells and might be capable of infecting humans.

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

Guest: Angela Mingarelli

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TWiV 944: Hacking through Borneo with Kathryn Hanley

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Kathryn Hanley joins TWiV to discuss her career and the research in her laboratory on the molecular biology, evolution and ecology of emerging RNA viruses and their insect vectors.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit,  and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Kathryn Hanley

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TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins

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Eddie Holmes joins TWiV to discuss his role in the first release of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, what really happened during the infamous Fauci teleconference, and evidence that the virus came from Nature and not from a lab.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Guest: Eddie Holmes

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TWiV 891: LLOV in the time of Ebola

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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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TWiV 876: Spillover market with Michael Worobey

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Michael Worobey joins TWiV to explain evidence that SARS-CoV-2 emerged via the wildlife trade and that the Huanan market was the unambiguous epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Guest: Michael Worobey

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TWiV 875: Animal house

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TWiV discusses the virome of game animals in China, and the finding that binding of sarbecoviruses to ACE2 is an ancestral and evolvable trait.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Amy Rosenfeld

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