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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP64.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:54pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss evidence that the malaria parasite originated in gorillas.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

 

Direct download: TWiP063.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:27pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

 

Direct download: TWiP062.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:10pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP061.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:35am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes mice to lose their aversion to cat urine, even after the parasites have been cleared.

Links for this episode:

Listener Pick

Blaine - The Worm Within

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP060.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:07pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP059.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:38am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Guest: Cali Despommier

Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, and Dickson reads a chapter from his new book.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP058.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:28pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by the single-celled coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis.

The day after recording this episode, ProMedMail reported that the outbreak of cyclosporiasis had spread to Texas.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP057.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:35am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss Myxobolus cerebralis, the parasite that causes whirling disease of salmonids.

Links for this episode:

Listener Pick

Amanda - Pandemic: On the Brink

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP056.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:47am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson reveal how invasive harlequin ladybirds use biological weapons against their competitors.

Links for this episode:

Dickson's Pick

An Inordinate Fondess for Beetles by Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy

Listener Pick

Jessie - Pandemic, the board game

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Direct download: TWiP055.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:59am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson consider a case history of a young man with Blastocystis hominis - is it causing his disease?

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Direct download: TWiP054.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:35am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding that immunity to a sandfly salivary protein protects against fatal visceral leishmaniasis in hamsters.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Direct download: TWiP053.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 3:02pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the giant kidney worm, Dioctophyme renale.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Direct download: TWiP052.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:46pm PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Guest: Anthony A. James

Special guest Anthony A. James joins Vincent and Dickson to discuss how mosquitoes can be genetically modified to control infectious diseases.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Direct download: TWiP051.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:48am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Direct download: TWiP050.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:44am PDT

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss innate immune sensing of Toxoplasma gondii in mice, and heme metabolism in protozoan parasites.

Links for this episode:

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Direct download: TWiP049.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:50am PDT

1