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

Vincent and Dickson review an in silico pipeline for identifying molecular mimicry candidate proteins in the genomes of parasites, and catch up on listener email.

Direct download: TWiP033.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:40am PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss immune evasion by the cruzain protease of T. cruzi, and novel tetraspanin antigens of S. japonicum.

Direct download: TWiP032.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:41pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss the promising results of a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine in African children.

Direct download: TWiP031.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:17pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson have a broad-ranging conversation with Charles Knirsch of Pfizer, Inc. about how public-private partnerships can function to control and eliminate infectious diseases.

Direct download: TWiP030.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:15am PDT

Vincent and Dickson converse with Peter Hotez about global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical diseases.

Direct download: TWiP029.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:14pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz, Assistant Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIAID.

Direct download: TWiP028.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:26am PDT

Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of trematodes, or flukes, which have a snail as a reservoir host.

Direct download: TWiP027.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:12pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson take on the schistosomes, agents of a series of related diseases in humans referred to as schistosomiasis.

Direct download: TWiP026.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:14am PDT

Vincent and Dickson review Wuchereria bancrofti, the nematode that causes lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.

Direct download: TWiP025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:48pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Onchocerca volvulus, the vector-borne filarial nematode parasite that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness.

Direct download: TWiP024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:49am PDT