TWiV 314: Einstein goes viral

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Kartik Chandran, Ganjam Kalpana, and Margaret Kielian

Vincent travels to Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he speaks with Kartik, Ganjam, and Margaret about their work on Ebolavirus entry, a tumor suppressor that binds the HIV-1 integrase, and the entry of togaviruses and flaviviruses into cells.

• Antibodies that protect against Sudan virus (ACS Chem Biol)
• Ebola virus entry requires NPC1 (EMBO J)
• A toggle switch for virus entry (Nat Comm)
• Imaging alphavirus exit (J Virol)
• Defects in HIV-1 unable to interact with INI1 (Retrovirol)
• Cell cycle arrest by INI1 (Mol Cell Biol)
• Video of this episode - view at YouTube

Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]