Listen "TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme"
Episode Synopsis
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:
Sensing Toxoplasma in mice (Cell Host Microbe)
Make it, take it, or leave it (PLoS Path)
Heme (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 49
Contact
Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]
Vincent and Dickson discuss innate immune sensing of Toxoplasma gondii in mice, and heme metabolism in protozoan parasites.
Links for this episode:
Sensing Toxoplasma in mice (Cell Host Microbe)
Make it, take it, or leave it (PLoS Path)
Heme (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 49
Contact
Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]
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