TWiV 268: Transmission is inevitable
Jan 19, 2014•1 hr 46 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Ashlee Bennett
Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity.
Links for this episode- How viruses cause disease (Coursera)
- How clean is your iPad (Which?)
- Meeting announcement: From emerging to pandemic viruses
- CaMV virus factories involved in aphid transmission (J Virol)
- Caulimovirus (ViralZone)
- CaMV responds instantly to vector (eLIFE)
- Aphid acquiring CaMV (J Virol)
- Bat genomes, flight, and immunity (Science)
- Letters read on TWiV 268
Kathy - Jean-Luc Doumont (slides, communicating science, website, Scitable)Alan - Wireless thermometerVincent - LORiOLA viral necklaces
Listener Pick of the WeekJessica - Knit icosahedronRobert - Practical computing for biologists by Haddock and DunnStephen - Fourteen years of US weather (YouTube)
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