TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies

TWiV explains how liquid–liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection, and the first smallpox virus genomes from an early outbreak in South America.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
• Fred Murphy, a pioneer in virology (J Virol)
• New midge-borne orthobunyavirus sickening cattle in Europe (Science)
• What to Know About the Vaccines Targeted by Trump's Executive Order (NY Times)
• What vaccine Executive Order gets wrong (CIDRAP)
• Trudy Rey's 100th post at virology blog
• Transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection (Nucl Acids Res)
• Phase separation 101 (Iwasa lab)
• Early smallpox in America (Science)
• Letters read on TWiV 1349
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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