Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

Vincent, Michael, Elio and Michele discuss how an endosymbiont betrays its aphid host to alert plant defenses, and a new immunosuppressive cell that allows infection of neonates.

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Links for this episode

• Endosymbiont protein betrays aphid (PNAS)
• Plant immune system (Nature)
• Plant defenses against pathogens (Am Phyt Soc)
• New neonatal defense against infection (Nature)
• Marty Blaser and Bill Maher (YouTube)
• Two days from any village (YouTube)
• Letters read on TWiM 82

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