This Week in Parasitism
Successful systems attract parasites
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TWiP 55: A ladybird's weapon
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson reveal ...
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...
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TWiP 54: Unde venis?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson consider ...
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...
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TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
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...
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TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
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...
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TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Guest: Anthony A. James ...
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...
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TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson reveal ...
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...
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TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
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...
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TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Josef Sabo Vincent, Dickson, ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Josef Sabo Vincent, Dickson, and Josef discuss tetraspanins on the surface of schistosomes as vaccine candidates and immune evasion proteins. Links for this episode: S....
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TWiP 47: For whom the trich tolls
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review evidence that a virus of the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis may exacerbate disease. Links for this episode: Endobiont viruses sensed...
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TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson meet ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson meet with Judith Straimer and Marcus Lee to discuss their method for site-specific genome editing in Plasmodium falciparumusing zinc finger nucleases. Right-click...
