Vincent travels to Tegernsee, Germany for the Sixth Ringberg Symposium on Giant Viruses, where he talks with John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont about their work on – you guessed it – giant viruses.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont

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Links for this episode

Transposable elements shaping Ectocarpus genome (Genome Biol)
Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses (Nature)
Mirusviruses predicted to reproduce in nuclei (Nat Micro)
Persistent mirusvirus infection in the marine protist Aurantiochytrium (Nat Com)
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