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All Episodes

People, Parasites, and Plagues — 54 episodes

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1

Toxoplasma’s Stealth Mode: Hiding in the Brain

2

Paleopathology: A Window Into Ancient Diseases

3

The World’s Most Successful Parasite: Inside Toxoplasma’s Weird Biology

4

Rebuilding Immunity: The Thymus, Your Immune System’s Hidden Architect

5

An Open-Source Pandemic: Genomes, Metadata, and Real-Time Outbreak Science

6

When Neutralizing Isn’t Enough: The Immunology of Alphavirus Defense

7

The Hidden Empire of Parasitoid Wasps

8

From Pathogen to Prescription: Reimagining E. coli

9

The Silent Architect: Chromatin’s Role in Fungal Outbreaks

10

Endocytosis: T. cruzi's Cool Parasite Trick

11

Parasites & Passports: Graduate Students on Science & Self-Discovery

12

The Science of Public Policy

13

Lock and Key: The Devious Mechanisms of Viral Entry

14

Observable Variations: Using Genetic Marker Systems for Infectious Diseases

15

PPP Book Club: Infectious Reads 2

16

Treating Mosquitoes: Innovative Ways To Combat Malaria

17

Harnessing the Hulk: Insights on T Cell Function

18

SCWDS: Monitoring Wildlife Health for 50 Years

19

Wolbachia: Unwelcome Guest or Essential Partner?

20

Hypnozoites: World's Best Nappers

21

Mom For The Win: Setting Up Your Early Immunity For Success!

22

TB, Or Not TB

23

The Ins And Outs of Biocontainment

24

The Life & Times of the Schisto Kid

25

Galen: A Guy With A Great Sense Of Humors

26

Bears Hibernate, And So Does Malaria?

27

Transposons Advance Fungal Research By Leaps & Bounds

28

That’s NOT A Nucleus In Your Red Blood Cell

29

A Lesson In Mentoring

30

Communicate Your Research In 3 Minutes. Go!

31

Are You Faster Than a Nematode?

32

The Off-Key Immune Response to Malaria

33

People, Parasites, and Pooches

34

A New Perspective on Parasites

35

Infectious Reads: A PPP Book Club

36

Asking About Aspergillus

37

Kissing Bugs Thrive, With a Little Help from Their Friends

38

Mosquitoes, Malaria, & Medicine

39

Tapeworms: Baby Making Machines

40

Buzzworthy Studies: The Ecology of Mosquitoes

41

The Lovely Study of Kissing Bugs

42

Still Fighting The Fiery Serpent

43

Campy: The Not So Sweet Side Of Carbohydrates

44

Communications And Vaccinations

45

The Good, The Bad, And The Fungus

46

Devastating Diseases of Seeds

47

A Career in Science, with Dr. Jessica Kissinger

48

Petabytes of Problematic Pathogens

49

Genomic Detective Work

50

Brain eating amoeba

51

Malaria: Developing new drugs to fight an ancient foe

52

Media Coverage of Pandemics, Past and Present

53

Coronavirus vaccines; In Chickens!

54

Influenza