TWiV 355: Baby's first virome

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV team considers the effect of a Leishmaniavirus on the efficacy of drug treatment, and the human fecal virome and microbiome in twins during early infancy.

Links for this episode

• Announcing mSphere 5:50
• Leishmania virus influences drug outcome (paper 1, paper 2) 25:15
• Human gut virome and microbiome in infants (Nat Med) 46:00
• Multiple displacement amplification (Wiki) 46:00
• Virome of adult twins (Nature) 49:15
• Illumination by Kevin Folta 1:31:00
• Folta story at RetractionWatch 1:41:40
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 355 9:40, 1:20:30

This episode is sponsored by ASMGAP 5:00

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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