Podcasts by CVR podcast Contagious Thinking
What is a virus? How do they cause disease? What can we do to stop them? Find out here, in the podcast from the Medical Research Council (MRC)-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), brought to you by our staff and students.
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Medical Visualisation With Sarah Iannucci Podcast from 2021-11-30T09:43:27
Listen to our latest podcast episode for Contagious Thinking in which Sarah Iannucci discusses all things Medical Visualisation.
Sarah Iannucci recently completed a Masters of Science in ...
World Hepatitis Day 2021 with J McLauchlan from 2021-07-28T09:55
In this special edition podcast for world hepatitis day Anna Kirk interviews John McLauchlan, a Professor of Viral Hepatitis at the Centre for Virus Research. John is an expert in hepatitis C virus...
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Not so common anymore; how rhinovirus may prevent SARS-CoV-2 replication & infection from 2021-04-29T09:38:49
In this episode of the review we discuss Dr Kieran Dee’s exciting discovery that coinfections of rhinovirus and SARS-CoV-2 result in reduced replication of SARS-CoV-2. We discuss the potential for ...
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How did SARS-CoV-2 spread across Scotland? from 2021-01-20T12:27:09
It is almost one year since the first positive case of COVID-19 confirmed in Scotland, and in this episode we talked with Clinical Research Fellow James Shepherd about how COVID-19 was introduced i...
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Nuno Faria: Surveillance, prediction, or preparedness & response? from 2020-11-11T08:00:28
On the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic (Feb 2020), we welcomed a very special guest to Contagious Thinking, Associate Professor Dr Nuno Faria from the University of Oxford. In this episode, Nuno speak...
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Pablo Murcia - A Horse, Maradona and the flu walk into a bar ... from 2020-11-04T09:00:14
In this special episode for our Spanish speaking listeners, Mila and Elihu are talking with Professor Pablo Murcia about how viruses can infect different species, his scientific career and future w...
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Jonathan Stoye – Reflections on Research and Retrovirology from 2020-10-28T10:42:10
In this episode, recorded in October 2019, we speak to Dr Jonathan Stoye - a Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute and Fellow of the Royal Society. In this episode we talk about Jonath...
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Nicola Stonehouse: An “unusual” start towards a professorship in picornaviruses from 2020-10-21T08:00:06
Prof Nic Stonehouse from the University of Leeds talks to us about her career and how the right mentorship led her to a professorship studying picornaviruses. She also tells us about the exciting p...
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Andreas Wack: Differential host response to Influenza virus from 2020-10-14T08:00:04
Dr. Andreas Wack from the Crick institute talks to us about the role of host immunity in the response to influenza virus and why we mount differential immune responses to infection. He also tells u...
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Herpes simplex reactivation is not all white or all black from 2020-10-01T05:00:24
Podcast S4 ep
Dr Anna Cliffe from the University of Virgina (USA) talks about her career in science and research on herpes simplex latency and reactivation in neurons.
You can fi...
Frozen-evolution of Bluetongue virus from 2020-07-07T06:00:11
How do viral outbreaks arise? Can genomic epidemiology identify pathways of emergence of infectious diseases?
In this episode of The Review we will answer these questions with Dr Kyriaki Nomiko...
Can viruses steal our genetic signals to make human-virus genes? from 2020-06-29T09:57:46
Can viruses steal our genetic signals to generate human-virus genes? Can these proteins alter the course of viral infection?
In this episode of the review recorded via zoom we will answer...
Why always me? from 2020-06-23T11:56:52
Do bats deserve their bad rap when it comes to virus transmission? Do human viruses disproportionately originate from certain animal groups?
In the this episode of 'The Review' we answer these ...
Siyuan Hu: A Tale of One City. from 2020-02-05T14:48:54
Today in a very special ad hoc episode, we have the personal experience from the inside of the coronavirus outbreak. From mainland China in Wuhan city, fellow postdoc Elihu Araday and Rute Pinto ta...
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How do viruses cause disease? from 2020-01-29T05:00
In this episode we’re extremely lucky to be welcoming Professor Diane Griffin, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health who is also the vice-president of the US National Academy of ...
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Can getting the flu reduce your chances of getting a cold? from 2020-01-27T11:35:36
Can getting the flu reduce your chances of getting a cold? Can you get a cold and the flu at the same time? In the first episode of 'The Review' we answer these questions with Dr Sema Nickbakhsh, a...
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Connor Bamford: An immune defense that makes hepatitis C even worse from 2020-01-22T13:01:44
In this episode, Jack Hirst and Andrew Burns (on his podcast debut) are joined by Contagious Thinking veteran and founder Connor Bamford, who is crossing to other side and telling us about his own ...
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Dr Laura McCoy: Neutralize All Enemy Targets from 2020-01-15T06:00:22
Season 3 Episode 10: In this episode of Contagious Thinking Connor and Elihu are talking with Dr Laura McCoy about why study and continue to study broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV, and t...
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Rachel Edgar: Does the time of day change our susceptibility to infection? from 2019-12-18T11:26:42
Season 3 Episode 9: In this episode of Contagious Thinking Jack and Elena are talking with Dr Rachel Edgar about about her research investigating how the circadian clock of a host can affect viral ...
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Professor Rune Hartmann from 2019-12-11T13:45:51
Today on the Contagious Thinking podcast, Douglas and Elena are joined by Professor Rune Hartmann from Aarhus University who tells us about his work on understanding type III interferons, their rol...
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Dinner with 'flu with Dr Rachel Ulferts from 2019-12-04T12:30:33
In this episode, ex-postdoc Dr Connor Bamford will be speaking with Dr Rachel Ulferts from the Francis Crick Institute in London after she came to Glasgow recently to present her fascinating work.<...
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HUSH-ing HIV - A Podcast with Professor Paul Lehner from 2019-11-20T11:46:05
HUSH-ing HIV - A Podcast with Professor Paul Lehner
Season 3 Episode 6: In this episode of Contagious Thinking Jack and Arthur are talking with Professor Paul Lehner about HIV and silencing of ...
Carolina Lopez - Defective viral particles and how they shape the virus-host interactions. [Spanish] from 2019-11-13T05:33:03
In this special episode for our Spanish speakers listeners, Mila and Elihu are talking with Carolina Lopez about how viruses interact with the immune system during infection. As viruses copy their ...
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How tick saliva helps viruses subvert your immune system from 2019-11-06T11:32:23
Season 3 Episode 4: This week Jack and Douglas are talking ticks with Professor Pat Nuttall, where we hear about how changing conditions are increasing the risk of tick-borne viruses and how these ...
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Finding a cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine from 2019-10-31T12:12:18
In this episode we’re welcoming Professor Paul Griffiths, from the Royal Free hospital and University College London. Professor Griffiths - who is a clinician by training - came to the CVR in Glasg...
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Ann Palmenberg - 2019 Sir Michael Stoker Prize Podcast from 2019-10-23T14:36:10
Professor Ann Palmenberg from the University of Wisconsin-Madison talking to us about her journey through academia as a virologist, her views on vaccines and women in science.
As always, ...
Structural Virology with Juan Fontana from 2019-10-16T12:30:02
This is the third season of the refreshing virology podcast. In this episode, we’re starting off with Dr Juan Fontana, a structural biologist from the University of Leeds. Juan speaks with fellow p...
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Robert J. Gifford: Sequence, Blast, rinse and repeat from 2019-03-26T10:48:15
In this final episode, we change gears, from innate immunity to virus biology and evolution. Today, postdocs Connor and Elihu talk with Dr. Robert Gifford, CVR’s resident evolutionary virologist an...
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Marlene Dreux and the interferogenic synapse from 2019-03-18T03:00:08
Season 2 Episode 7: Today Connor's following on the theme of innate immunity started by Greg and Adam in the last two episodes and is joined by Dr Marlene Dreux, Team Leader in immunovirology at th...
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Biochemistry of innate immunity with Adam Fletcher from 2019-03-11T03:00:08
Season 2 Episode: 6
I hope you enjoyed last week’s episode with Jack, Douglas and Greg Towers because now we’re continuing on that theme and speaking with Dr Adam Fletcher, a fellow innate...
How HIV Survives The Minefield - Prof Greg Towers from 2019-03-04T03:00:03
Season 2 Episode 5: Having heard about Dr Liz Wright's work with HIV and Cryo EM last week, this week Jack and Douglas take a deep dive into the HIV field with Professor Greg Towers.
Havi...
Getting a really, really close look at viruses from 2019-02-25T08:18:36
Season 2 Episode 4: It’s hard to get anywhere in microbiology without a microscope, and the cutting edge right now is cryo-electron microscopy, where samples are frozen in clear ice, so they stay i...
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Do patient genomes hold the key to fighting viral sepsis? from 2019-02-18T03:00:05
Season 2 Episode 3: This week we're discussing sepsis, a major complication of infection (from bacteria AND viruses) which can lead to multiple organ failure and death. Following on from the first ...
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The physics of influenza virus replication with Dr Nicole Robb from 2019-02-11T03:00:05
Season 2 Episode 2: Today we are discussing another virus everyone is familiar with, especially now the winter season is here, influenza. But today we are changing tack, and bringing some physics i...
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Yoshihiro Kawaoka - 2018 Sir Michael Stoker Prize Podcast from 2019-02-04T03:00:05
Season 2 Episode 1: Today we’re welcoming a very special guest to Contagious Thinking, Prof Yoshihiro Kawaoka, the 2018 Sir Michael Stoker Prize winner.
The Stoker prize is an annual lectu...
David Baltimore - Winner of the 2017 Sir Michael Stoker Award (Series 1 Episode 8) from 2018-07-26T02:00:04
In the last episode of our current series Jack, Yasmin and Andrew are joined by renowned virologist and Nobel laureate Professor David Baltimore, the 2017 winner of the CVR's Sir Michael Stoker Awa...
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Fighting viruses across Africa with Ian Goodfellow (Series 1 Episode 7) from 2018-07-18T13:15:23
This week Connor, Jack and Andrew are joined by Professor Ian Goodfellow from the University of Cambridge to hear about his career so far in virology and his recent work in helping stop viruses in ...
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What's the use of fruit fly research in virology? (Series 1 Episode 6) from 2018-07-12T02:00:04
This week Jack and Douglas are joined by Professor Jean-Luc Immler to hear about the immune system of insects, and the value of researching fruit flies.
If you like this podcast check out ...
How herpesviruses hide from your immune system (Series 1 Episode 5) from 2018-07-05T02:00:04
This week Jack is joined by Professor Thomas Schulz to hear about the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, the most common cause of tumours in men in sub-Saharan Africa, and how herpesviruses m...
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Following viruses using 'Digital Epidemiology' (Series 1 Episode 4) from 2018-06-28T02:00:04
Join Connor Bamford and Andrew Shaw for this week’s episode where we’re thinking bigger than we have before this series. Think about how influenza virus and similar viruses like varicella zoster vi...
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The barriers faced by flu virus (Series 1 - Episode 3) from 2018-06-21T02:00:04
This week Jack, Connor and Andrew are joined by Dr Gulsah Gabriel to hear about the barriers influenza virus must overcome to breakinto a cell. These barriers are important for dictating which host...
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Unpacking a flu virus (Series 1 - Episode 2) from 2018-06-14T02:00:04
This week, Jack and Connor are joined by Dr Yohei Yamauchi to hear about how an influenza virus particle is unpacked after breaking into a cell. This is an incredibly important part of the viruses ...
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The SHAPE of flu (Series 1 - Episode 1) from 2018-06-06T21:17:15
In the first episode of our new series, Jack is joined by PhD student Bernadeta Dadonaite from the University of Oxford to hear about how the flu virus arranges its genome inside the virus particle...
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World AIDS Day Special: Nothing in HIV Makes Sense Except in Light of Evolution from 2017-12-01T10:24:51
CVR Contagious Thinking Episode #24: World AIDS Day with HIV expert Professor David Robertson, PI and head of bioinformatics at the CVR.
Today, the 1st of December marks World AIDS day. A ...
Back with the Vampires in Peru from 2017-10-31T16:54:11
Happy Halloween from all at the CVR!
About this time last year in 2016 we made an episode of Contagious Thinking (which I encourage you all to have a listen to/see link at the end) about v...
All about antivirals - the Arbidol story from 2017-10-17T07:07:13
In this episode of Contagious Thinking Elihu and Connor talk with Steve Polyak from the University of Washington in Seattle USA about how some drugs stop viruses from infecting us. In particular we...
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How to catch a pig and its viruses in Uganda from 2017-08-29T06:06:20
In the latest episode of Contagious Thinking, join CVR PhD student Jack Hirst and postdoc Connor Bamford as they chat with Dr Charles Masembe about his work on some of Africa's most important anima...
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Our gut microbes and parasites are protecting us against viral lung infections from 2017-07-20T06:56:13
Welcome to Contagious Thinking, the podcast from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. In this episode 20, we’re discussing the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a virus which...
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Stoker Prize: How to Succeed in Science Without Really Trying from 2017-04-30T14:49:27
Every year the CVR's postdocs and students award the 'Sir Michael Stoker award' to a leading scientist in virology who comes to our institute, meets with students and staff and gives a lecture. Pas...
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How does your body 'know' it's been infected? from 2017-03-30T07:07:02
Join Andrew Shaw and Connor Bamford – CVR postdocs - for a chat with Professor Jan Rehwinkel from the University of Oxford and MRC Human immunology unit in this recent episode of Contagious Thinkin...
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Beatrice Hahn - The 2016 Sir Michael Stoker Award winner from 2017-02-16T07:33:48
Every year (it's happening as we speak!)the CVR holds an exciting competition called the "Sir Michael Stoker Award". This prize is unique in that the winner is selected by the junior members of the...
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Viral pseudotypes - tools of mass eradication? from 2017-02-01T10:48:37
Find out more about Morbilliviruses and the research involving them at the CVR, in this latest episode of the Contagious Thinking podcast brought to you by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for ...
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Can virologists combat antibiotic resistance? from 2016-12-09T07:24:57
Find out what CVR virologists are doing to help fight bacterial antibiotic resistance in the clinic, in this latest episode of the Contagious Thinking podcast brought to you by the MRC-University o...
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A human, a monkey and a cat walk into the clinic... from 2016-12-01T21:15:12
Find out all about the research being carried out at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR)into HIV, AIDS and related viruses in this episode of the Contagious Thinking podca...
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Freezing Flu Filaments from 2016-11-10T21:36:16
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Rabies - riding the wave to the Pacific coast from 2016-10-25T18:16:28
In this episode, join Josie and Connor who talk with Drs Daniel Streicker and Julio Benavides about their work on preventing the spread of vampire bat rabies across Peru.
The 28th of Septe...
Architectural Antagonism by an Acute Arbovirus from 2016-09-27T00:00
In this episode, Connor chats with two CVR scientists, principal investigator and director of the institute, Professor Massimo Palmarini, and PhD student and vet, Eleonora Melzi. Eleonora and Mass...
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ICP0 and Skyewalker…no, this isn’t an episode of Star Wars! from 2016-09-26T06:35:41
In this episode, PhD students Joanna Morrell and Yasmin Parr talk with the recently-retired Professor Roger Everett - eminent herpes virologist and resident expert in intrinsic immunity - about his...
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A world full of chickens ....and their viruses from 2016-08-11T20:40:13
Professor Steve Goodbourn, from St George's, University of London, talks with PhD students Joanna Morrell and Yasmin Parr about his work on unravelling the biochemical mysteries of how viruses unra...
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Innate Immunity: Slippery when wet from 2016-07-31T16:26:11
Dr Jens Madsen, Associate Professor in Child Health at the University of Southampton, talks with PhD students Yasmin Parr and Joanna Morrell for episode 8 of Contagious Thinking and tells us all ab...
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What do you mean by 'infectivity'? from 2016-05-31T18:21:02
In our 7th episode, PhD student Yasmin Parr and postdoc Connor Bamford chat with Professor Richard Hardy from Indiana University in the USA about his lab’s work on understanding virus infectivity, ...
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Viruses in the apiary from 2016-05-16T19:14:30
In our 6th episode, Dr Andrew Shaw, CVR postdoc, chats with Professor Dave Evans, (@evanslabuk) a virologist from the University of St Andrews, about bees and their viruses.
Dave visited ...
How can we cure CMV latency? from 2016-03-01T21:22:23
In episode 5 we talk with Dr Mike Weekes, a clinical consultant and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at the University of Cambridge about his lab’s work on using a technique he pioneered calle...
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Battling ebola in Sierra Leone from 2016-02-08T20:45:57
In episode 4 we meet four members of the CVR who went to Sierra Leone to help out with the ebola virus epidemic during 2015. Ph.D students Caroline Chauche and
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How does HIV move its deadly infection from cell-to-cell? from 2015-12-01T08:56:21
Here, on World AIDS day, we meet Dr Clare Jolly, HIV virologist, about her work and her groups work on how HIV spreads from cell-to-cell and what this means for antiviral treatment and vaccination....
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Ep. 2. Mary Collins - meet the expert from 2015-11-17T19:16:14
The CVR meets Mary Collins who talked to us a bit about the past, present and future of gene therapy and how we are using viruses to cure human disease. Mary is Professor of Immunology in the Divis...
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Geoff Smith - meet the expert from 2015-10-25T10:45:34
The CVR meets Professor Geoff Smith, FRS FMedSci FIBiol, head of the department of pathology at the University of Cambridge, to talk about his work on poxviruses and regulation of the innate immune...
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