Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, Mark Stenglein, and Joseph DeRisi

The TWiVites meet with Mark Stenglein and Joseph DeRisi to discuss their discovery of a novel arenavirus in snakes with inclusion body disease.

Links for this episode:

• Highly divergent arenaviruses in snakes (mBio)
• Taryn's sick snake (NPR)
• Assemblathon
• Faculty position in virology, Columbia U.
• Petridish.org
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 196

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