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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, Mark Stenglein, and Joseph DeRisi
The TWiVites meet with Mark Stenglein and Joseph DeRisi to discuss their discovery of a novel arenavirus in snakes with inclusion body disease.
Links for this episode:- Highly divergent arenaviruses in snakes (mBio)
- Taryn's sick snake (NPR)
- Assemblathon
- Faculty position in virology, Columbia U.
- Petridish.org
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 196
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