Freezing Flu Filaments - a podcast by MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

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In preparation for the Northern hemisphere's 'flu season, Josie speaks with the CVR’s Dr Ed Hutchinson – an MRC career development fellow – and Dr Swetha Vijayakrishnan, a postdoc in the group of Dr David Bhella for our latest episode and asks them about a mysterious aspect of influenza biology.

Ed and Swetha share a fascination with the reasons why viruses such as influenza and ebola produce very, very long and thin particles and here they tell us about how they're using state-of-the-art proteomic and molecular techniques in combination with advanced 'cryo' electron microscopy to understand the biology of these amazing filamentous structures.

Read more on our blog post here: http://cvr.academicblogs.co.uk/freezing-flu-filaments/

Image adapted from Vijayakrishnan et al., 2013 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23754946)

Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/…Me_Higher_1626 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Edited voiceover music credit: “Mountain Bells” by Lobo Loco from the album “Moments” http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Moments_1950/Lobo_Loco_-_04_-_Mountain_Bells

Recorded by Josie Bellhouse and produced by Josie Bellhouse and Connor Bamford.

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