This Week in Parasitism
TWiP is a podcast about the tiny creatures that live in and on us.

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloDickson Despommier, and Josef Sabo

Vincent, Dickson, and Josef discuss tetraspanins on the surface of schistosomes as vaccine candidates and immune evasion proteins.

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Direct download: TWiP048.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 3:48pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review evidence that a virus of the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis may exacerbate disease.

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Direct download: TWiP047.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:20am PDT

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 to download TWiP #46 (46 MB .mp3, 64 minutes).

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Direct download: TWiP046.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:52am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss Toxoplasma biology with Stanford University Professor John Boothroyd.

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Direct download: TWiP045.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:34pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson explain how a nematode manipulates cricket behavior and alters the food web of a stream.

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Direct download: TWiP044.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 3:31pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to malaria resistance, and inhibition of innate immune responses by an enzyme from trypanosomes.

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Direct download: TWiP043.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:38am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more.

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Direct download: TWiP042.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:40pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review medically important arthropods.

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Direct download: TWiP041.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:43pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss loaiasis caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa.

Right-click to download TWiP #40 (52 MB .mp3, 73 minutes).

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Direct download: TWiP040.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:58pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of the amoebae Naegleria fowlerii and Acanthamoeba castellani.

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Direct download: TWiP039.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 11:05am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson tackle the backlog of listener email, then consider the life cycle and pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis, the flagellated protozoan transmitted by sexual contact.

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Direct download: TWiP038.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:53pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Dracunculus medinensis, the filarial nematode that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease.

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Direct download: TWiP037.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:49pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson review how gut bacteria help establish T. muris in the large intestine of mice.

Direct download: TWiP036.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:09am PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria with their Columbia University colleague David Fidock.

Direct download: TWiP35.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:36pm PDT

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