Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guests: Robert Krug and Christopher Sullivan

Vincent and Rich visit the University of Texas at Austin and meet up with Bob and Chris to talk about their work on influenza virus and microRNAs.

Links for this episode:

• Virus-encoded microRNAs (PLoS Path)
• microRNA targetomes of polyomavirus (J Virol)
• Innate and RNAi reciprocal inhibition (Cell)
• ISG15 pathway (Trends Micro)
• Role of viral NS1 protein (Virology)
• Cap-snatching (Cell)

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