1 hr 51 min

A tangled web of viruses with Mya Breitbart This Week in Virology

    • Life Sciences

Virus hunter Mya Breitbart joins TWiV to describe her laboratory’s work on viruses in spiders, insects, millipedes, freshwater springs, seawater, plants, human feces and much more.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Dickson Despommier
Guest: Mya Breitbart
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Links for this episode Viruses of spinybacked orbweavers (J Gen Virol) Viruses of terrestrial arthropods (PeerJ) Pepper mild mottle virus in sewage (PLoS Path) Environmental DNA in marine community (Nat Comm) Viral community of freshwater springs (mBio) Phage puppet masters in the oceans (Nat Micro) Letters read on TWiV 804 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Official-Droodles-Home
Alan – The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony video (and the text version)
Vincent – Biden’s federal and business vaccine mandates
Listener Pick Anonymous – The Ivermectin Episode – Behind the Bastards
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Virus hunter Mya Breitbart joins TWiV to describe her laboratory’s work on viruses in spiders, insects, millipedes, freshwater springs, seawater, plants, human feces and much more.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Dickson Despommier
Guest: Mya Breitbart
Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email
Become a patron of TWiV!
Links for this episode Viruses of spinybacked orbweavers (J Gen Virol) Viruses of terrestrial arthropods (PeerJ) Pepper mild mottle virus in sewage (PLoS Path) Environmental DNA in marine community (Nat Comm) Viral community of freshwater springs (mBio) Phage puppet masters in the oceans (Nat Micro) Letters read on TWiV 804 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Official-Droodles-Home
Alan – The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony video (and the text version)
Vincent – Biden’s federal and business vaccine mandates
Listener Pick Anonymous – The Ivermectin Episode – Behind the Bastards
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

1 hr 51 min