Paul Bieniasz joins the TWiV team to talk about the co-option, millions of years ago, of an endogenous retrovirus envelope protein by hominid ancestors for host defense against viral infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Paul Bieniasz

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Links for this episode

• ASM Grant Writing Online Course
• Bieniasz Laboratory
• Julius S. Youngner, 96
• Distinguished virology career of Julius S. Youngner (TWiV 373)
• Reconstitution of a human ERV (PNAS)
• Co-option of ERV envelope for host defense (eLife)
• Letters read on TWiV 439

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