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Researchers at Michigan State University demonstrate how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations.

In episode 49 of MicrobeWorld Video, Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncogenesis by human papillomaviruses, the amazing collection of bacteriophages on the planet, and the evolution of genetic conflict between virus and host.

Viral annotation. Carla Kuiken (Los Alamos National Laboratory). The 11th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 11), held at The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, April 4-6, 2011 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_11)

For more information about this resource, see our blog post at URL http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=7790. VirusMINT shows interactions BETWEEN human and viral proteins on the same interaction map.

Presented at the I2CAM/FAPERJ Spring School, 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andre Marco de Oliveira Gomes

Presented at the I2CAM/FAPERJ Spring School, 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Clements (0:00) Andre Marco de Oliveira Gomes (34:00)

Roya Zandi delivers the keynote address for the ICAM Annual Conference. She explains the incredible simplicity of virus geometry and the puzzles of its success.

From the flu to HIV, RNA viruses challenge our immune systems like no other infectious agent on the planet. RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused by RNA viruses) represent a major threat to public health. How do RNA viruses adapt and change, and how do our bodies respond? Why are...

Hosts Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how RNA viruses produce mRNA and replicate their genomes.

David Mead of Lucigen Corporation discusses polymerase development, Yellowstone and sequencing at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 28, 2009.