TWiV 1151: Hotel California for Phage

This Week in Virology

TWiV reviews polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, viruses with zoonotic potential in farmed fur animals, low HPV vaccination in North Texas associated with high rates of cervical cancer, a large flavivirus genome that does not encode error correction machinery, and antiphage defense through inhibition of virion assembly.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Polio vaccination in Gaza (Reuters)
• Zoonotic viruses in farmed fur animals (Nature)
• HPV vaccination and cancer rates (JAMA Net Open)
• 40 kb RNA genome without error correction (PNAS)
• Stopping the phage tape measure protein (Nat Commun)
• Tail assembly interference (Nat Commun)
• Letters read on TWiV 1151
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Dickson – Digital nature pics winners 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Alan – Adorable story about a Nigerian paralympian couple who are both polio survivors Jolene – Capsid assembly model with self-assembling pentamers in 3D print model (plus three more models now available if search self assembling virus) and Wonderlab article about exhibit using this to teach about viral patterns in Bloomington Indiana Science museum Vincent – The collapse of bat populations led to more than a thousand infant deaths

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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