Listen to a live video episode of This Week in Virology (TWiV), a podcast about viruses. Started in September 2008 by Vincent Racaniello, a Higgins Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University, the goal of the show is to have an accessible discussion about viruses that anyone can understand and enjoy. In Washington, D.C., Racaniello, co-host Condit, and guests Kawaoka and Hruby discuss antivirals against smallpox and influenza viruses H5N1 and H7N9. 

Moderators:

Vincent Racaniello; Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons, NY

Richard C. Condit; Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Panelists:

Yoshihiro Kawaoka; Dept. of Pathobiological Sc., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI

Dennis Hruby; SIGA Technologies, Inc., Corvallis, OR

Links for this episode

• ASM Biodefense Meeting - http://www.asmbiodefense.org/

• Influenza H5N1 transmission (Virus Res) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23954580

• Aerosol transmission of H5N1 virus in ferrets (Nature) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22722205

• Characterization of H7N9 virus from humans (Nature) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23842494

• ST-246 efficacy in primates (AAC) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24100494

• Antiviral options for biodefense (Curr Op Virol)

• ST-246 safety in humans (Antimicrob Agents Chemother)

• Gain-of-function experiments (Science) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23929965

• Letters read on TWiV 270 - http://www.twiv.tv/twiv-270-letters/

Weekly Science Picks

Vincent - Quanta Magazine - https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/

Rich - Colour is in the eye of the beholder - http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=30670#.UufLtBAo7VR

Listener Pick of the Week

Kehau - Beautiful but deadly viruses - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/13/deadly-viruses-beautiful-photos_n_4545309.html

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