TWiV #54 - Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary

18/10/2009 1h 27min
TWiV #54 - Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary

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Episode Synopsis

Vincent speaks with Lynn Enquist about his career in virology, moving from academia to industry and back. Along the way he did pioneering research on bacteriophage, participated in the birth of recombinant DNA technology, and studied herpesviruses.
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Holliday junction
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA
Restriction enzymes
Movies of herpesvirus movement in nerve cells
The 'other' Enquist lab
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