This Week in Parasitism

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**This Week in Parasitism**

TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.

Latest Episodes:

TWiP 78: Eau de rodent Oct 29, 2014

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Vincent and Dickson discuss how malaria parasites induce odors in their rodent hosts that attract mosquitoes.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Links for this episode:

Visceral Leishmaniasis, South Sudan (ProMedMail)
Malaria-induced changes in host odors (PNAS)
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Letters read on TWiP 77

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

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TWiP 77: Mixed messages Sep 19, 2014

Show notes

Vincent and Dickson discuss the exchange of messenger RNAs between a parasitic plant and its hosts.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Links for this episode:

Exchange of mRNAs between parasite and plant (Science)
White leaf rust (Wikipedia)
Cuscuta (Wikipedia)
Fungal haustoria (PNAS)
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Letters read on TWiP 77

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out Sep 02, 2014

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Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection of mice with helminths induces cytokines that reactivate a latent gamma-herpesvirus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Links for this episode:

Helminths reactivate herpesvirus (Science)
How helminths go viral (Science)
Herpesvirus latency protects from bacterial infection (Nature)
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Letters read on TWiP 76

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

TWiP 75: Parasite wonders with Bobbi Pritt Jul 21, 2014

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Bobbi Pritt joins Vincent and Dickson to talk about directing a clinical parasitology laboratory and her weekly case reports at Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Guest: Bobbi Pritt

Links for this episode:

Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites
Letters read on TWiP 75

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question? Jul 04, 2014

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Vincent and Dickson review a novel malaria vaccine candidate comprising a parasite protein involved in egress from red blood cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Links for this episode:

Egress protein a malaria vaccine candidate (Science)
Human proteins (Wikipedia)
Plasmodium genomics resource
Image: P. falciparum ring forms and gametocytes in blood
Letters read on TWiP 74

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

TWiP 73: I'm nibbling my way back to you Jun 13, 2014

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Vincent and Dickson discuss how nibbling of human cells by Entamoeba histolytica, a process called amoebic trogocytosis, contributes to cell killing and tissue invasion.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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