This Week in Virology #54: Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Lynn Enquist

On episode 54 of the podcast "This Week in Virology", Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way Prof. Enquist did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses.

Download TWiV #54 (63 MB .mp3, 87 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Holliday junction


• Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA


• Restriction enzymes


• Movies of herpesvirus movement in nerve cells


• The 'other' Enquist lab


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