This Week in Parasitism
TWiP is a podcast about the tiny creatures that live in and on us.

Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria and filariasis with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.

Direct download: TWiP034.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:57am PDT

Vincent and Dickson review an in silico pipeline for identifying molecular mimicry candidate proteins in the genomes of parasites, and catch up on listener email.

Direct download: TWiP033.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:40am PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss immune evasion by the cruzain protease of T. cruzi, and novel tetraspanin antigens of S. japonicum.

Direct download: TWiP032.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:41pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss the promising results of a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine in African children.

Direct download: TWiP031.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:17pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson have a broad-ranging conversation with Charles Knirsch of Pfizer, Inc. about how public-private partnerships can function to control and eliminate infectious diseases.

Direct download: TWiP030.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:15am PDT

Vincent and Dickson converse with Peter Hotez about global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical diseases.

Direct download: TWiP029.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:14pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz, Assistant Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIAID.

Direct download: TWiP028.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:26am PDT

Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of trematodes, or flukes, which have a snail as a reservoir host.

Direct download: TWiP027.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:12pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson take on the schistosomes, agents of a series of related diseases in humans referred to as schistosomiasis.

Direct download: TWiP026.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:14am PDT

Vincent and Dickson review Wuchereria bancrofti, the nematode that causes lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.

Direct download: TWiP025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:48pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Onchocerca volvulus, the vector-borne filarial nematode parasite that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness.

Direct download: TWiP024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:49am PDT

Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the world's most unusual parasite, Strongyloides stercoralis.

Direct download: TWiP023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:40pm PDT

Vincent and Dickson discuss possibly the most socially and politically important nematode of humans, the hookworm Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.

Direct download: TWiP022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:52am PDT

Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of Ascaris lumbricoides, one of the largest nematodes to infect humans.

Direct download: TWiP021.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:20pm PDT

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