This Week in Virology (TWiV) #135: Live in the Big Easy

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Roger Hendrix, Rachel Katzenellenbogen, and Harmit Malik

Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncogenesis by human papillomaviruses, the amazing collection of bacteriophages on the planet, and the evolution of genetic conflict between virus and hos

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Links for this episode:

• Papillomavirus E6 proteins (Virology)
• Diversity of mycobacteriophages (PLoS One)
• Adaptive evolution of tetherin (J Virology)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 135
• Video of this episode - view at YouTube

Weekly Science Picks

Roger - Atomic structure of adenovirus by cry0-EM (Science)
Harmit - Syncytin knockout mice show role for endogenous retroviral gene (PNAS)
Vincent - Free science, one paper at a time by David Dobbs

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark  - Shot by Shot

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