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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.

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    Copyright: © Vincent Racaniello 2022

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    TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares Aug 09, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Guest: Cali Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, and Dickson reads a chapter from his new book.

    Links for this episode:
    • Dickson and Cali (jpg)
    • Cyclosporiasis keeps spreading (ProMedMail)
    • Cyclosporiasis is not a virus! (Gawker)
    • Cyclosporiasis is not a virus! (Yahoo)
    • The Global Dispatch
    • People, Parasites, and Plowshares by Dickson Despommier
    • Letters read on TWiP 58
    Contact

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

    Subscribe (free)

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

    TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis Jul 20, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson review a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by the single-celled coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis.

    The day after recording this episode, ProMedMail reported that the outbreak of cyclosporiasis had spread to Texas.

    Links for this episode:
    • Cyclosporiasis (CDC)
    • Cyclospora life cycle (CDC)
    • Cyclosporiasis (Wikipedia)
    • Cyclosporiasis outbreak, US (one, two, three) (ProMedMail)
    • Cyclosporiasis outbreak moves to Texas (ProMedMail)
    • Notifiable diseases, US, 2011 (CDC)
    • Federal funding for science research (virology blog)
    • Oculus of Singapore (YouTube)
    • Dickson recording TWiP 57 (jpg)
    • Dickson's stuff (jpg)
    • People, Parasites, and Plowshares by Dickson Despommier
    • Letters read on TWiP 57
    Contact

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

    Subscribe (free)

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

    TWiP 56: Whirling disease Jul 03, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson discuss Myxobolus cerebralis, the parasite that causes whirling disease of salmonids.

    Links for this episode:

    • Myxobolus cerebralis (Wikipedia)
    • Fish migration (Wikipedia)
    • Trout with whirling disease (YouTube)
    • Letters read on TWiP 55
    Listener Pick

    Amanda - Pandemic: On the Brink

    Contact

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

    Subscribe (free)

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

    TWiP 55: A ladybird's weapon Jun 15, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson reveal how invasive harlequin ladybirds use biological weapons against their competitors.

    Links for this episode:
    • Invasive Harlequin Ladybirds' biological weapon (Science)
    • Immunity an invasive success (Science)
    • Invading ladybugs carry bioweapons (C&EN)
    • Ladybird Ladybird (Wikipedia)
    • G. Evelyn Hutchinson (Wikipedia)
    • Letters read on TWiP 55
    Dickson's Pick

    An Inordinate Fondess for Beetles by Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy

    Listener Pick

    Jessie - Pandemic, the board game

    Contact

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

    TWiP 54: Unde venis? May 23, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson consider a case history of a young man with Blastocystis hominis - is it causing his disease?

    Links for this episode:
    • Blastocystis (Wikipedia)
    • Blastocystis review (Trends Parasitol)
    • Letters read on TWiP 54
    Contact

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

    Subscribe (free)

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

    TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity Apr 20, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding that immunity to a sandfly salivary protein protects against fatal visceral leishmaniasis in hamsters.

    Links for this episode:
    • Immunity to a salivary protein protects against leishmaniasis (PNAS)
    • Image of blood-fed Lutzomyia longipalpis (right) credit
    • Short history of Leishmania vaccines
    • Leishmania on TWiP #14
    • Letters read on TWiP 53
    Contact

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

    TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm Mar 16, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the giant kidney worm, Dioctophyme renale.

    Links for this episode:
    • Dioctophymiasis (CDC)
    • Dioctophyme renale (Wikipedia)
    • Fatal bilateral dioctophymiasis (J Parasitol)
    • Clinical Parasitology by Paul C. Beaver
    • D. renale in a dog (Vet. Parasitol.)
    • Surgical removal of D. renale (YouTube)
    • Letters read on TWiP 52
    Contact

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

    TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James Mar 02, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Guest: Anthony A. James

    Special guest Anthony A. James joins Vincent and Dickson to discuss how mosquitoes can be genetically modified to control infectious diseases.

    Links for this episode:
    • Field cage studies of modified mosquitoes (PLoS NTD)
    • Flightless mosquitoes (PNAS)
    • When mutant mosquitoes attack (NY Times)
    Contact

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

    TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut Feb 16, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.

    Links for this episode:
    • Malaria parasites co-opt factor H (Cell Host Microbe)
    • Complement system (Wikipedia)
    • Letters read on TWiP 50
    Contact

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

    TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme Jan 26, 2013
    Show notes

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

    Vincent and Dickson discuss innate immune sensing of Toxoplasma gondii in mice, and heme metabolism in protozoan parasites.

    Links for this episode:
    • Sensing Toxoplasma in mice (Cell Host Microbe)
    • Make it, take it, or leave it (PLoS Path)
    • Heme (Wikipedia)
    • Letters read on TWiP 49
    Contact

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

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