TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Kartik Chandran and Sara Sawyer

Sara and Kartik join Nels and Vincent to talk about the filovirus receptor NPC1 regulates Ebolavirus susceptibility in bats.

 

Links for this episode

• Sara on TWiV #193
• Kartik on TWiV #314
• NPC1 and bat susceptibility to Ebolaviruses (eLife)

Science Picks

Nels - Sundance Film Festival and Meru
Vincent - Quanta podcast (iTunes)
Sara - Isolation of Marburg viruses from fruit bats

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