TWiP explains a study which finds that tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for Trypanosoma brucei, then remembers our departed colleague Dickson Despommier.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula

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• Join the MicrobeTV Discord server
• Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for T. brucei (Nature)
• Understanding trypanosome antigenic variation (Emerg Top Life Sci)
• Tissue resident T. brucei (PLoS Path)
• Hero – Dickson Despommier
• Despommier Photo Art
• Parasitology Course (YouTube)

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Music by Ronald Jenkees

TWiP explains a study which finds that tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for Trypanosoma brucei, then remembers our departed colleague Dickson Despommier.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email

Links for this episode

• Join the MicrobeTV Discord server
• Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for T. brucei (Nature)
• Understanding trypanosome antigenic variation (Emerg Top Life Sci)
• Tissue resident T. brucei (PLoS Path)
• Hero – Dickson Despommier
• Despommier Photo Art
• Parasitology Course (YouTube)

Become a patron of TWiP 

Send your questions and comments to [email protected]

Music by Ronald Jenkees