TWiV 1215: What's the worst that could happen?

TWiV reviews universal vaccine initiative at NIAID, shut down of
the Integrated Research Facility at Ft. Detrick, modeling the
reemergence of infectious diseases as vaccination rates drop, and
bacterial outer membrane vesicles bound to bacteriophages
modulate neutrophil responses to bacterial infection.


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene
Ramsey


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ASV 2025

Paul has Measles (YouTube, virology blog)

Universal vaccine project (NIAID, CIDRAP)

Measles update (US, Texas)

Integrated Research Lab closed (Telegraph)

Modeling reemergence of infectious diseases (JAMA)

Outer membrane vesicles attached to phage (Front
Cell Inf Micro)

Pf phage review (Front Immunol)

Letters read on TWiV 1215

Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Alan – A Paradise Built in Hell, by
Rebecca Solnit (and here’s my review of it)
Jolene – Virology course student
communication projects, Spring 2025
Vincent – Vaccine Education Center


Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees


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