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This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.
TWiV 690: This is your brain on SARS-CoV-2
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TWiV reviews the difficulties in predicting species susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection by only examining the ACE2 protein, and the olfactory mucosa as a portal of entry into the central nervous system in COVID-19 patients.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Guest: Amy Rosenfeld
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Links for this episode- NYC will create pandemic response institute (NY Bus J)
- Comparison of ACE2 in vertebrates (PNAS)
- Olfactory transmucosal invasion of CNS by SARS-CoV-2 (Nat Neurosci)
- Letters read on TWiV 690
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson – National Geographic best animal photos of 2020 Amy – American Contagions: Epidemics and the law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt Alan – HamSCI citizen science organization Rich – DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures Vincent – Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters by Daniel Kronauer
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
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