TWiV 380: Viruses visible in le microscope photonique
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVeroos deliver the weekly Zika Report, then talk about a cryoEM structure of a plant virus that reveals how the RNA genome is packaged in the capsid, and MIMIVIRE, a CRISPR-like defense system in giant eukaryotic viruses.
Links for this episode
- First worms, then viruses, now dormant cyber pathogens (Zdziarski blog)
- Guillain-Barré with Zika virus in urine (Eurosurveillance)
- Zika virus in urine, Brazil (J Clin Virol)
- Zika in pregnant women in Rio (NEJM)
- Issues with NEJM pregnant women study (Epi-Ramble)
- Zika virus and meningoencephalitis (NEJM)
- Zika virus and acute myelitis (Lancet)
- Person to person transmission of Zika virus (MMWR)
- Pyrethroids and mouse microcephaly (one, two)
- Zika virus illustrations (Visual Science)
- Cowpea mosaic virus at high resolution (Nat Comm)
- MIMIVIRE confers resistance to virophage (Nature)
- CRISPR in a phage (TWiM 56)
- National Academy of Sciences GoFoc meeting
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 380
This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and Microbe Magazine Podcast
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