Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss an increase in the altitude of malaria distribution in warmer years in the highlands of Colombia and Ethiopia.

Links for this episode:

• Altitudinal changes in malaria incidence (Science)
• El Niño (Wikipedia)
• NOAA El Niño page
• Image credit: Science
• Letters read on TWiP 69

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Dickson Despommier, and Sagi Shapira

Vincent, Dickson, and Sagi discuss evidence that the pathogen Trypanosoma brucei undergoes meiosis and sexual reproduction.

Links for this episode:

• Meiosis and haploid gametes in T. brucei (Curr Biol)
• Meiosis (Wikipedia)
• Letters read on TWiP 68

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson explain the genetic and molecular basis of drug resistance in Schistosoma mansonii.

Links for this episode:

• Basis of resistance to oxamniquine (Science)
• Oxamniquine (Wikipedia)
• Letters read on TWiP 67

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss reversible inhibitors of cruzipain as new drugs for treating Chagas disease.

Links for this episode:

• Reversible cysteine protease inhibitors for Chagas (AAC)
• New drug candidates for Chagas (ScienceDaily)
• Pancake ice (YouTube)
• Letters read on TWiP 66

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson consider the effects of climate change on parasitic diseases.

Links for this episode:

• Climate change and infectious diseases (Science)
• The more parasites the better? (Science)
• Host and parasite control disease risk (PNAS)
• Parasites dominate food web links (PNAS)
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Image credit: PLoS One
• Letters read on TWiP 65

Dickson's Pick

Neglected by Shelly Xie (YouTube)

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