This Week in Virology

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Ken Stedman

The complete TWiV team meets with Ken Stedman to discuss the discovery in Boiling Spring Lake of a DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus.

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Links for this episode:

• Novel virus from an extreme environment (Biol Direct, virology blog)
• Lassen Volcanic National Park
• Tombusviridae, Circoviridae (ViralZone)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 195

Weekly Science Picks

Ken - The Edge of Life trailer and Facebook page
Dickson - The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte
Alan - SEMs of insects and spiders via Steve Gschmeissner
Rich - Curiosity Has Landed (Wiki mission summary)
Vincent - Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror (YouTube)

Listener Pick of the Week

Lance - The Vaccine Confidence Project and Immune response video (YouTube)
Anat - Beautiful Science

Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twiv.