TWiV 534: Portal to the METTL

Feb. 10, 2019

The TWiV crew reveal a unique portal on the calcivirus capsid formed upon receptor engagement, and the regulation of interferon responses in virus-infected cells by methylation of mRNA.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• European Congress of Virology 2019
• ASM Clinical Virology Symposium
• Intel ISEF judges needed
• Calicivirus portal visualized (Nature)
• Calicivirus portal - long version (biorXiv)
• m6A modification and innate response (Nat Immunol)
• Brianne Barker's immunology course
• m6A modification and innate response (Genes Dev)
• Letters read on TWiV 534
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Brianne - The Red Queen's Race Card Game
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Dickson- Felice Frankel on improving visual side of science
Kathy- History of the alphabet chart (free download) usefulcharts.com (see blog, such as Latin Greek Cyrillic Venn Diagram)
Vincent - Virology Lectures 2019

Listener Pick

Peter- Microbehunter (YouTube, blog, forum)

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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