TWiV 250: Wookie viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Robert Garcea Vincent and Robert recorded this episode at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, where they talked about polyomaviruses. Links for this episode: A cornucopia of human polyomaviruses (Nat Rev Micro) Polyoma assembly factories in nucleus (PLoS Path) Overprinting gene in Merkel cell polyomavirus (PNAS) Human JCV as population marker (PLoS One) Letters read on TWiV 250 Video of this episode ( YouTube ) Weekly Science Picks Robert - The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin Vincent - Aliens chestburster behind the scenes Listener Pick of the Week Adam - Virology Fact of the Day Christophe - dr Karl Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]