TWiV 416: Scattered seeds dormant

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Dickson Despommier , Alan Dove , Rich Condit , and Kathy Spindler The multi-dimensional TWiV-brane bring you the entries in the haiku/limerick contest, and explain how a giant virus infects a host within another host (it has to do with predators!). Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Predators allow virus infection of endosymbiont (PNAS) Image credit Letters read on TWiV 416 This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE. 0:25, 1:34:40 Check out the graduate and postdoctoral programs at the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Deadline for applying to the graduate program is 1 December 2016. For more information about the Department, please visit http://bit.ly/micromssm 5:05 Register for the 2017 ASM Grant Writing Online course . Weekly Science Picks Alan - Cubes in Space Dickson - The Architecture of Eden by H. Pearlman and A. Whalley Rich - Studying the building blocks of life in stereo ( original paper ) Kathy - Ancient bottom wipes yield evidence of diseases ( original paper ) Vincent - Iguana vs snakes Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]