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

Guests: Carolyn Coyne and Coyne Drummond

Two Coynes join the TWiV overlords to explain their three-dimensional culture model of polarized intestinal cells for studying enterovirus infection.

Links for this episode

• Carolyn and placentas on TWiV 193
• Three-dimensional cell culture model (mSphere)
• Bioreactor video (JoVE)
• Neurovirologist Richard T. Johnson, 84 (Hopkins and virology blog)
• Tardigrade HGT disputed (BioRxiv)
• Exaptation of archaeal virus capsid protein from Cas4 (Biol Dir)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 367

This episode is sponsored by ASM Microbe

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