This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.

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99 episodes
Updated Sunday

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Sunday · 1 hr 18 min
TWiV 1345: Rocky Mountain Virology High
TWiV travels to Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, where he speaks with Angela Bosco-Lauth, Rebekah Kading, and Mark Stenglein about their careers and their virology research. Host: Guests: , , and Subscribe (free):...
Saturday · 48 min
TWiV 1344: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the numerous attempts by states to roll back vaccine laws, the recent surge of Dengue virus cases in Sri Lanka, the national cyclospora outbreak, new screwworm and...
July 26 · 1 hr 42 min
TWiV 1343: Batting averages and stolen bases
TWiV explains research which shows that Per os infectivity factors are essential for bracovirus infection and wasp parasitism, and that periodic shifts in viral load increase risk of Hendra virus spillover from Pteropus bats....
July 25 · 39 min
TWiV 1342: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello explore the source/not source of the national cyclospora outbreak, trust in the FDA to correctly identify the source, new screwworm, Legionnaires and cyclosporasis cases, the Ebola...
July 19 · 1 hr 39 min
TWiV 1341: Phage breaks and COVID origins
TWiV explains research that reveals dual activity of a phage-encoded lysin that modulates infection dynamics in a mycobacteriophage, and refutes a proposed link between the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site and mouse-adapted MERS-coronavirus MA30....
July 18 · 44 min
TWiV 1340: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello debate if Senator Mitch McConnell’s recent hospitalization is due to post-polio syndrome or just old age, how air quality from Maine to Chicago has been affected by the Ontario...
July 12 · 1 hr 50 min
TWiV 1339: Ebola up close with Tom Ksiazek
Tom Ksiazek, a world-renowned virus expert with 40 years of experience on the front lines of some of the worst outbreaks the world has ever seen, joins TWiV to discuss his career, ebolaviruses in general, and the current outbreak of Bundibugyo...
July 11 · 42 min
TWiV 1338: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are dismayed over the military deaths due to the voluntary influenza vaccination policy, FDA’s first vaccine recommendations since 2023, the efficacy of influenza vaccines, new...
July 5 · 1 hr 52 min
TWiV 1337: The whitefly and the Red Queen
TWiV explains research that reveals an an alternative evolutionary path of antiviral signalling in a sea anemone, and how a bacterial symbiont and a plant virus enhance insect fitness by inducing physical defenses against fungal parasites....
July 4 · 23 min
TWiV 1336: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello lament about the new ACIP charter, how administration of the HPV vaccine has eliminated cervical cancer deaths in young women, the global economic burden of infectious disease,...
June 29 · 1 hr 10 min
TWiV Special: Albert Sabin with Karen Torghele
Vincent speaks with Karen Torghele about her recently published biography of polio vaccine pioneer Albert Sabin, the first ever written. Host: Guest: Subscribe (free): , , Links for this episode Karen Torghele’s website...
June 28 · 1 hr 55 min
TWiV 1335: TldR, bacterial hot rods and nullifying norovirus
TWiV explains research showing how temperate phages enhance bacterial host fitness via RNA-guided flagellar remodelling, and that IgA antibody is necessary and sufficient to prevent norovirus infection in mice. Hosts: , , , and ...
June 27 · 31 min
TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vaccinology, the Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem, new screwworm cases, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo...
June 27
TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vaccinology, the Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem, new screwworm cases, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo...
June 21 · 1 hr 54 min
TWiV 1333: STING like a nanoparticle, float like HIV
TWiV explains research showing how HIV-1 signalling remodels nuclear pores to licence infection, and development of STING agonist nanoparticles to enable coordinated mucosal-systemic immunity for durable pan-β-coronavirus protection. Hosts: ...
June 20 · 57 min
TWiV Special: Ebola virus and Andes virus with John Dye
Vincent travels to ASM Microbe in Washington DC to speak with John Dye of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases about the recent outbreaks of Bundibugyo ebolavirus in Africa and Andes virus on a cruise ship....
June 20 · 54 min
TWiV 1332: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello express concern about vaccine policy and ACIP, scaling back of the CDC’s role in global public health, shingles vaccine and dementia, new screwworm cases, the Ebola outbreak...
June 14 · 1 hr 58 min
TWiV 1331: A drug for cervical cancer
TWiV explains research showing that dairy cows are infected with low doses of influenza A(H5N1) and do not transmit efficiently to other animals, and covalent inhibitors of human papillomavirus type 16 E6 protein that restore p53 function and suppress...
June 13 · 1 hr 11 min
TWiV 1330: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including the fast track trials for 2 vaccine candidates...
June 7 · 1 hr 50 min
TWiV 1329: How HIV-1 goes nuclear
TWiV explains research showing limited transmission of cervid prions to nonhuman primates, and the finding that cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transported through intact nuclear pores. Hosts: , , and Subscribe (free): , , ...