On this all-bacteriophage episode, TWiV explains the ‘vampire phage’, and and how mammalian cells internalize phage particles and utilize them to enhance cell growth and survival.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Jolene Ramsey

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• MicrobeTV store at Cafepress
• Global Scholar Travel Awards (ASV)
• Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf)
• The New City by Dickson Despommier
• Gerd Sutter passes (LMU)
• Avian influenza A (H5N1) Cambodia (WHO)
• CWD expands in Montana (CIDRAP)
• National Wastewater Surveillance System (CDC)
• Vampire phage paper (ISME J)
• UMBC phage hunters (UBMC)
• Vampire viruses prey on other viruses (Conversation)
• Phage internalized by mammalian cells (PLoS Biol)
• Phage uptake by mammalian cells (iScience)
• Phage-mammalian cell interactions (Ann Rev Virol)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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