TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies

TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection, and the first smallpox virus genomes from an early outbreak in South America.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello), Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email (eepurl.com/Gcw59)
Become a patron of TWiV!
Links for this episode • Support science education (microbe.tv/contribute)at MicrobeTV
• Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
• Fred Murphy, a pioneer in virology (J Virol)
• New midge-borne orthobunyavirus sickening cattle in Europe (Science)
• What to Know About the Vaccines Targeted by Trump’s Executive Order (NY Times)
• What vaccine Executive Order gets wrong (CIDRAP)
• Trudy Rey’s 100th post at virology blog
• Transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection (Nucl Acids Res)
• Phase separation 101 (Iwasa lab)
• Early smallpox in America (Science)
• Letters read (microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1347-letters)on TWiV 1349
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Picks of the Week Brianne – APod August 7: Rubin’s Cosmos Field Rich – Jenner’s Inquiry Original, “annotated”; (PDF) Smallpox vaccination and opposition by anti-vaccination societies in 19th century Britain Jolene – Scott Seligmann’s web tool for searching keywords in podcast transcripts Vincent – The End of Reading is Here
Listener Picks Tony – Fauci Fiasco Addendum Charles – The Proposed Changes in Childhood Vaccination: A Strongly Felt Opinion
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.