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Show Notes
Paul Bieniasz joins the TWiV team to talk about the co-option, millions of years ago, of an endogenous retrovirus envelope protein by hominid ancestors for host defense against viral infection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Paul Bieniasz
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Links for this episode- ASM Grant Writing Online Course
- Bieniasz Laboratory
- Julius S. Youngner, 96
- Distinguished virology career of Julius S. Youngner (TWiV 373)
- Reconstitution of a human ERV (PNAS)
- Co-option of ERV envelope for host defense (eLife)
- Letters read on TWiV 439
Kathy - UM Science Communication TeachOut Alan - LLNL nuclear test videos Rich - The Great A.I. Awakening (Artificial neural network; DeepDream; DeepDream images) Dickson - Cassini imagesPaul - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Vincent - Google rewrites search rankings; Senator Whitehouse on politics of climate change
Listener PickAnthony - Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Weather Monitor Kit
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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