Medical Science Programs and Podcasts

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #11 - One times three million

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:00:00 -0400

Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of malaria, with emphasis on clinical aspects of the disease.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #84 - Gators go viral

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:30:00 -0400

Vincent and Rich spoke with Dave Bloom and Grant McFadden about their work on herpesviruses and poxviruses in this episode recorded before an audience at the University of Florida, Gainesville - home of the Gators.

Futures in Biotech 60: Do You Come To This Cave Often?

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:11:51 -0400

Host: Marc Pelletier

Primate face recognition, new cure for HVC, genetic base change, neanderthals and humans, and more.

Guests: Dave Brodbeck, Ph.D., Andre Nantel, Ph.D., Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., and George Farr, Ph.D.

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 1:31:27

This Week in Virology: TWiV #83 - An hour with Dr. Kiki

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:50:00 -0400

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and special guest Dr. Kirsten Sanford talk about her career in science media, then consider whether smallpox eradication led to the AIDS pandemic, high fidelity RNA synthesis, and a new Ebola virus vaccine.

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #10 - Plasmodium life cycle

Wed, 19 May 2010 22:00:00 -0400

Vincent and Dickson trace the life cycle of Plasmodium in a mosquito and in a human host.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #82 - Immunology in silico

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:30:00 -0400

Vincent and Rich talk about how thymic selection of T cells might lead to better control of HIV-1 infection, and a mouse model for severe antibody-induced dengue virus disease.

Brain Science Podcast: BSP 69: Glial Cells with R. Douglas Fields

Ginger Campbell, MD — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:00:00 -0400

Brain Science Podcast 69 is an interview with R Douglas Fields, PhD, author of "The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science." Glial cells are the non-neuronal cells of the nervous system. This interview explores the recent discovery that glial cells are able to monitor and influence signaling between neurons.

For detailed show notes and episode transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send email to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.

Correction: The correct spelling for author of "The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind" is Barbara Strauch. (My apologies to Ms. Strauch for misspelling her name on the podcast.)

Futures in Biotech 59: No Room For Failure

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:52:59 -0400

Host: Marc Pelletier

A first hand account of the Apollo Missions from the floor of Mission Control.

Guest: Michael Vucelic, former Apollo system manager for NASA and Rockwell

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 1:39:53

This Week in Virology: TWiV #81 - Be a virus, see the world

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:30:00 -0400

Vincent and Rich answer listener questions on viruses and gluten allergy, RNA silencing, influenza virus, herpes simplex virus, HIV/AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, manicure salons, and the koala tea of Marseilles.

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #9 - Mala aria

Wed, 05 May 2010 22:20:00 -0400

Vincent and Dickson move on to protozoan parasites with a discussion of the early history of malaria.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #80 - How much X could a woodchuck chuck?

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:30:00 -0400

Vincent, Alan, and Rich speak with Michael Bouchard about hepatitis B virus discovery, replication, and pathogenesis.

iRescueRadio Health and Medical Podcast: iRescueradio 042: Fainting, Aliens, Sleep Paralysis, Dreams

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:00:08 -0400

Sleep disorders affect millions of people. Associated problems can range from feeling tired during the day to life threatening cardiovascular damage. If you have had difficulty with sleep maybe it...

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This Week in Virology: TWiV #79 - Red hot chili viruses

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0400

Vincent and Alan converse about making published science accessible to everyone, global eradication of poliomyelitis, and whether a plant virus can cause disease in humans.

iRescueRadio Health and Medical Podcast: iRescue Radio 041:Spiders, Insect Bites, Rescue Dog, Good Sounds

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:00:48 -0400

Its been a good week at the iRescueradio studio. A little training, something interesting and lots of fun are all wrapped up in this show. You’ll have to listen to find out why Dan’s...

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This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #8 - Frog legs and parasite tales

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:30:00 -0400

Dickson reads his story about sparganosis caused by the diphyllobothroid tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides.

Futures in Biotech 58: Vertical Farms and much more with Dick Despommier

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:40:48 -0400

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology & Host of This Week in Virology, Host of This Week in Parasitism, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Feeding the world with indoor vertical farming.

Guest: Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Host of This Week in Virology; Host of This Week in Parasitism.

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 1:12:19

This Week in Virology: TWiV #78 - Darwin gets weird

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:30:00 -0400

Vincent, Alan, Dickson, and Rich talk about treating arthritis with a tanapox virus protein, Darwinian evolution of prions in cell culture, and the connection between cold weather fronts and outbreaks of avian H5N1 influenza in Europe.

Brain Science Podcast: BSP 68: Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Peter Whitehouse

Ginger Campbell, MD — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:00:00 -0400

Episode 68 of the Brain Science Podcast (BSP 68) is an interview with Dr. Peter Whitehouse, author of "The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis." For detailed show notes and episode transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send feedback to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.

iRescueRadio Health and Medical Podcast: iRescueradio 040: Welcome back, Airsickness, Toilet Phobia

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:50 -0400

iRescueradio has been retooled and is on again after some time away. Thank you to our number one fan, Ryan, for encouraging us in our endeavors. You won’t want to miss this comeback show where...

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This Week in Virology: TWiV #77 - Non-nuclear proliferation

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Vincent, Alan, and Rich revisit circovirus contamination of Rotarix, then discuss poxvirus-like replication of mimivirus in the cell cytoplasm, and whether seasonal influenza immunization increases the risk of infection with the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus.

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #7 - Tapeworms are fantastic!

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:30:00 -0400

Vincent and Dickson continue their discourse on tapeworms, covering the fish and dog varieties.

Futures in Biotech 57: Mechanisms Of Non-Mendelian Inheritance In Evolution

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:23:47 -0400

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and George W. Farr, Ph.D., vice president of biochemistry and biophysics at Aeromics and adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics at Case Western Reserve University

How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA.

Guests: Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., professor of biology at MIT and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simon Alberti, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Randal Halfmann, a grad student in Dr. Lindquist's lab at MIT

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 58:15

This Week in Virology: TWiV #76 - XMRV with Professor Stephen Goff

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:00:00 -0400

Vincent speaks with Stephen Goff about the origin of the retrovirus XMRV and its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #75 - Rabies rampant

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0400

Vincent, Alan, and Matt review contamination of Rotarix with circovirus DNA, antigenic similarity between 1918 and 2009 H1N1 influenza, a collection of rabies reports, and chicken pox mistaken for smallpox in Uganda.

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #6 - Tapeworms, the long and short of it

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:30:00 -0400

Vincent and Dick talk about the anatomy and life cycle of beef and pork tapeworms, and why House was wrong about neurocysticercosis.

Futures in Biotech 56: New Antiviral Strategies With Karla Kirkegaard

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:37:46 -0400

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Vincent Racaniello

A look into RNA viruses and more.

Guest: Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 1:04:07

This Week in Virology: TWiV #74 - Influenza with Professor Adolfo Garcia-Sastre

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:00:00 -0400

Vincent speaks with Adolfo Garcia-Sastre talk about the origin, pathogenesis, and prevention of the 2009 pandemic influenza H1N1 virus.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #73 - Entering the ends

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0400

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich discuss multipotent progenitor bone marrow cells as a reservoir of HIV-1, integration of HHV-6 into telomeres, and dispersal of West Nile virus across the US by mosquitoes.

Brain Science Podcast: BSP 67: Thomas Metzinger explores Consciousness

Ginger Campbell, MD — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 -0500

Brain Science Podcast 67 is an interview with German philosopher Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self and Being No One. Dr. Metzinger argues that any credible model for how the brain generates the mind must incorporate unusual human experiences, such as so-called out of body experiences (OBE), and psychiatric conditions. In this interview we explore how OBE and virtual reality experiments shed light on how the brain generates the sense of self that characterizes normal human experience.

Detailed show notes and episode transcripts are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/.

Send feedback to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #72 - Bucket of bolts

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:20:00 -0500

This week the TWiV team explains CRISPR/Cas, the immune system of bacteria and archaea, how novel viruses are discovered by deep sequencing of small RNAs, and the relationship between dry weather and outbreaks of West Nile virus infection.

Futures in Biotech 55: Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics, Part 2

Marc Pelletier — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:03:44 -0500

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Justin Sanchez, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering at the University of Florida Neuroprosthetics Research Group

Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar talks about how to improve electronic systems using biologically inspired design.

Guest: Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor, of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 1:04:11

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #5 - The nurse cell

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:30:00 -0500

Vincent and Dick discuss the nurse cell, a unique structure formed in the host muscle by Trichinella species.

Brain Science Podcast: Announcements for March 2010

Ginger Campbell, MD — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:59:00 -0500

The next free episode of the Brain Science Podcast will appear on March 10, 2010.

Today's short podcast includes some advice for new listeners and information about the new premium versions of the Brain Science Podcast, which are available at http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Episode 67 is now available both as a CD and as MP3 download. From now on new episodes will appear as premium content at the beginning of the month, while the free podcast will continue to come out the second week of the month.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #71 - Please Mr. Postman

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:30:00 -0500

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions on maternal infection, viral gene therapy, eyeglasses and flu, filtering prions from blood, rinderpest, Tamiflu, the human microbiome, H1N1 vaccine, tumor viruses, RNA interference, and junk DNA.

MedPod101 | Learn Medicine: Speedballing - Part 1

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:56:11 -0500

Speedballing - Part 1

MedPod101 | Learn Medicine: Pinworms

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:55:31 -0500

Pinworms

MedPod101 | Learn Medicine: Tachycardia -- Going fast!

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:54:37 -0500

Tachycardia -- Going fast!

MedPod101 | Learn Medicine: Tradtional Chinese Medicine - Part 1

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:52:06 -0500

Tradtional Chinese Medicine - Part 1

Futures in Biotech 54: Personal Genome Project - Leo's Genome?

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:43:27 -0500

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte

The Personal Genome Project, making personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful.

Guest: Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics.

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 1:20:48

This Week in Virology: TWiV #70 - Hacking aphid behavior

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Vincent, Dickson, and Alan consider a broad spectrum antiviral against enveloped viruses, how a plant virus induces chemical signals in the host to maximize its spread, a new way to preserve viral vaccines at tropical temperatures, and the continuing story of XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Brain Science Podcast: BSP 66: Randy Gallistel on Memory and Computation

Ginger Campbell, MD — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:00:00 -0500

Episode 66 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Randy Gallistel, PhD, co-author (with Adam Philip King) of "Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience." We discuss why read/write memory is an essential element of computation with an emphasis on the animal experiments that support the claim that brains must possess read/write memory. This is significant because current models, such as neural nets, DO NOT incorporate read/write memory in their assumptions about how brains work. It is not necessary to have any background in information theory or computation to appreciate the experiments that are discussed in this episode.

Go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com for detailed show notes and transcripts. A premium version of this episode contains additional content.

Send feedback to Dr. Campbell at gincampbell at mac dot com.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #69 - They're all safecrackers

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 -0500

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review recent outbreaks of mumps in the UK, US, and Israel, protection of mice against 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus by 1918-like and classical swine H1N1 vaccines, and a virus-like particle vaccine for chikungunya virus.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #68 - Ode to a plaque

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:00:00 -0500

Vincent, Alan, and Rich are enthralled by movies of vaccinia virus plaque formation, then consider how repulsion of superinfection virions leads to rapid virus spread, and a therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine.

This Week in Parasitism: TWiP #4 - Trichinella life cycle

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Vincent and Dick trace the life cycle of Trichinella spiralis in an infected host.

Brain Science Podcast: Extra: Books and Ideas #34: Bruce Hood

Ginger Campbell, MD — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:00:00 -0500

Extra Content: Episode 34 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Bruce Hood, author of "SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable." Dr. Hood is a developmental psychologist with a long-standing interest in why people believe weird things. In "Supersense" he argues that innate cognitive structures (how we think without being taught) give people a natural tendency toward belief in the supernatural. Our intuitive sense of how the world works is often at odds with the findings of modern science. In this interview we discuss the evidence for these conclusions and their implications. For shownotes and transcripts go to http://booksandideas.com/. Send Dr. Campbell feedback at gincampbell at mac dot com.

Futures in Biotech 53: Project Genome 10K - Mapping Life's Greatest Journey

Marc Pelletier — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:13:13 -0500

Host: Marc Pelletier

Project Genome 10k, and how sequencing ten thousand vertebrate genomes will tell us about our past, present, and future.

Guest: Dr. David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Show notes

Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

Running time: 52:59

This Week in Virology: TWiV #67 - Wasting deer and the Hulk rabbit

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:30:00 -0500

Vincent, Alan, and Marc talk about chronic wasting disease of deer caused by prions, blocking the semen-derived enhancer of HIV infection with surfen, and making green transgenic rabbits using a lentiviral vector.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #66 - Reverse transcription

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Vincent and Dickson continue virology 101 with a discussion of reverse transcription, the flow of information from RNA to DNA, which occurs in cells infected with retroviruses, hepatitis B virus, cauliflower mosaic virus, foamy viruses, and even in uninfected cells.

Brain Science Podcast: BSP 65: Affective Neuroscience with Jaak Panksepp

Ginger Campbell, MD — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:12:00 -0500

Episode 65 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions."

For links, complete show notes and episode transcripts go to http://brainsciencepodcast.com.

Send Dr. Campbell feedback at gincampbell at mac dot com.

This Week in Virology: TWiV #65 - Matt's bats

Vincent Racaniello — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:30:00 -0500

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss a project to study the RNA virome of seven Northeastern American bats, failure to detect XMRV in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients, and DNA of bornavirus, an RNA virus, in mammalian genomes.