This Week in Virology

TWiV 378: Herpes plays DUBstep

Feb 28, 2016 · 1 hr 58 min · 87.3 MB
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Greg Smith and Mark Fuccio

Greg Smith joins the TWiVirate to reveal how his lab discovered a switch that controls herpesvirus neuroinvasion, and then we visit the week's news about Zika virus.

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This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast

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