TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies
Show notes
TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection, and the first smallpox virus genomes from an early outbreak in South America.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene RamseySubscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email
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- Fred Murphy, a pioneer in virology (J Virol)
- New midge-borne orthobunyavirus sickening cattle in Europe (Science)
- What to Know About the Vaccines Targeted by Trump’s Executive Order (NY Times)
- What vaccine Executive Order gets wrong (CIDRAP)
- Trudy Rey’s 100th post at virology blog
- Transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection (Nucl Acids Res)
- Phase separation 101 (Iwasa lab)
- Early smallpox in America (Science)
- Letters read on TWiV 1349
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Brianne – APod August 7: Rubin’s Cosmos Field Rich – Jenner’s Inquiry Original, “annotated”; (PDF) Smallpox vaccination and opposition by anti-vaccination societies in 19th century Britain Jolene – Scott Seligmann’s web tool for searching keywords in podcast transcripts Vincent – The End of Reading is Here
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