Kizzmekia Corbett joins TWiV to review her career and her work on respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, and coronaviruses and coronavirus vaccines, including her role in development and testing of a spike-encoding mRNA vaccine, and then we review the Nobel Prize for discovery of hepatitis C virus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and Brianne Barker

Guest: Kizzmekia Corbett

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Links for this episode

• Pre-fusion structure of CoV spike (Nature)
• Pre-fusion structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike (Science)
• Evaluation of mRNA-1273 in nonhuman primates (NEJM)
• SARS-CoV-2 vaccine from pandemic preparedness (Nature)
• Nanoparticulate universal influenza vaccine from stem antigens (mBio)
• Biological safety officer position at Columbia U
• Medicine Nobel Prize for medicine2020.pdf"> Hepatitis C virus (pdf)
• Alter's work on non-A non-B hepatitis (paper one, paper two)
• Houghton: single clone of HCV genome (Science)
• Rice: Transmission of hepatitis C to chimpanzee (Science)
• Charlie Rice on TWiV 392
• Chemistry Nobel Prize to Doudna and Charpentier (Nobel.org)
• FDA releases stricter guidelines for COVID-19 vaccines (NY Times, FDA pdf)
• Bullet points of Das coronavirus
• Recovery of 1918 influenza virus stories (xpm-1999-11-18-9911180290-story.html">one, two)
• Letters read on TWiV 670
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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