This Week in Parasitism

By Vincent Racaniello

TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you... more

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February 22, 2014TWiP 67: They find each other delightful
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson explain the genetic and molecular basis of drug resistance in Schistosoma mansonii.
Links for this episode:
Basis of resistance to oxamniquine (Science)
Oxamniquine (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 67
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1h 16min
February 08, 2014TWiP 66: A nitrile warhead for Chagas disease
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss reversible inhibitors of cruzipain as new drugs for treating Chagas disease.
Links for this episode:
Reversible cysteine protease inhibitors for Chagas (AAC)
New drug candidates for Chagas (ScienceDaily)
Pancake ice (YouTube)
Letters read on TWiP 66
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1h 43min
January 13, 2014TWiP 65: The real world wide web
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson consider the effects of climate change on parasitic diseases.
Links for this episode:
Climate change and infectious diseases (Science)
The more parasites the better? (Science)
Host and parasite control disease risk (PNAS)
Parasites dominate food web links (PNAS)
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Image credit: PLoS One
Letters read on TWiP 65
Dickson's Pick
Neglected by Shelly Xie (YouTube)
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1h 23min
December 19, 2013TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.
Links for this episode:
Targeting PI(4)K to eliminate malaria (Nature)
Antimicrobial peptides to target sporogonic stages of malaria (PLoS Path)
Small molecule blocks malaria invasion of mosquito (PLoS Path)
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Letters read on TWiP 64
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1h 38min
November 12, 2013TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss evidence that the malaria parasite originated in gorillas.
Links for this episode:
Great apes and zoonoses (Science)
Source of human malaria (PNAS)
Origin of human malaria parasite in gorillas (Nature)
Ape Plasmodium in Cameroon not infecting humans (PNAS)
No Plasmodium in greater spot-nosed monkey (Int J Parasit)
TWiP 13: Toxoplasmosis
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Letters read on TWiP 62
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1h 37min
November 01, 2013TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm.
Links for this episode:
High diversity of West African bat malaria parasites (PNAS)
Human hookworm vaccine (Vaccine)
Gongylonema infection in human (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
Letters read on TWiP 62
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1h 37min
October 15, 2013TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material.
Links for this episode:
T. rex had Trichomonas (PLoS One)
King Richard III had worms (CNN)
Discovery of toilets in Japan (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
Paleoparasitology in the Old World (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
Soils from Seoul (J Arachael Sci)
Ancient parasite infections in Old World (pdf)
Ascaris in coprolites (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
Human intestinal parasites in the past (Mem Inst Os Cruz)
Letters read on TWiP 61
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1h 15min
September 25, 2013TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes mice to lose their aversion to cat urine, even after the parasites have been cleared.
Links for this episode:
T. gondii in mice causes loss of aversion to cat urine (PLoS One)
Cyclosporiasis update (CDC)
Letters read on TWiP 60
Listener Pick
Blaine - The Worm Within
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1h 11min
September 09, 2013TWiP 59: Apicomplexity
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.
Links for this episode:
Cyclosporiasis outbreak in US (CDC)
Extraordinary history of REV (PLoS Biology)
Avian malaria (Ann NY Acad Sci)
P. lophurae (J Parasitol)
TWiP infects TWiV (TWiV 248)
Intravenous malaria vaccine (Science)
Unconventional malaria vaccine (Science)
Image of apicomplexan structure: Wikipedia
Letters read on TWiP 59
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1h 24min
August 09, 2013TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Guest: Cali Despommier
Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, and Dickson reads a chapter from his new book.
Links for this episode:
Dickson and Cali (jpg)
Cyclosporiasis keeps spreading (ProMedMail)
Cyclosporiasis is not a virus! (Gawker)
Cyclosporiasis is not a virus! (Yahoo)
The Global Dispatch
People, Parasites, and Plowshares by Dickson Despommier
Letters read on TWiP 58
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1h 35min

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