Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Robert Garcea

Vincent and Robert recorded this episode at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, where they talked about polyomaviruses.

Links for this episode:

A cornucopia of human polyomaviruses (Nat Rev Micro)
Polyoma assembly factories in nucleus (PLoS Path)
Overprinting gene in Merkel cell polyomavirus (PNAS)
Human JCV as population marker (PLoS One)
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