Ep 525 Dr. Racaniello & COVID-19

Sunday March 15, 2020


Dr. Vincent Racaniello, is Higgins Professor of
Microbiology & Immunology at Mount Sinai School of medicine,
Columbia University New York. He has
been studying viruses for over 40 years, starting in
1975, when he entered the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Sciences at
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York.
His thesis research was focused on influenza viruses. In 1979 he
joined the laboratory of Dr. David Baltimore at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, for postdoctoral work on poliovirus. In
1982 Vincent joined the faculty  in the Department of
Microbiology at Columbia University College of Physicians &
Surgeons in New York City. There he established a laboratory to
study viruses, and to train other scientists to become
virologists. Over the years his laboratory has studied a variety
of viruses including poliovirus, echovirus, enteroviruses 70 and
D68, rhinovirus, Zika virus and hepatitis C virus. As
principal investigator of his laboratory, he oversees the
research  that is carried out by Ph.D. students and
postdoctoral fellows. He also teaches virology to undergraduate
and graduate students, as well as medical, dental, and nursing
students. His virology lectures are available online
at iTunes University, YouTube, and Coursera.


Personally I listen to Dr. Racaniello on his many podcasts
including This Week in Microbiology, This week in parasitology,
this week in evolution, and of course, this week in virology, the
podcasts about viruses, the kind that make you sick.


LINKS:


http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/


https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports


www.virus.blog


https://promedmail.org/


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