Sep 18, 2020
Dr. Reid specializes in
host pathogen interactions studies such as investigating the
chikungunya virus infection and Ebola virus microbiology. A
returning guest, he and Richard discuss all things virus in this
episode as Dr. Reid will contribute to Richard's upcoming book on
viruses.
Their conversation covers
St. Patrick Reid is an assistant
professor in the Pathology and Microbiology Department in the
University Of Nebraska Medical Center College Of
Medicine.
In a previous podcast, he and Richard discuss chikungunya diagnosis
and pathology and Ebola virus symptoms and behavior. He begins this
discussion explaining his journey into the field, which includes
exciting postdoc work in France on Ebola. Now his researcher
involves
host pathogen interactions and he's particularly interested in
different host proteins a virus has to recruit to
replicate.
The conversation takes a turn
into exploring what scientists have assumed about viruses compared
to recent discoveries that may take that knowledge in new
directions. For example, he talks about ancient phage discoveries
in glacial bacteria and phage-bacteria coevolution. He describes an
interest in how viruses that infect bacteria allow those bacteria
to live in a community of other bacterium. The viruses actually
play a role in enabling those bacteria to survive.
He discusses numerous other virus characteristics and implications,
from DNA versus RNA viruses and what that dictates regarding habits
like latency. He also addresses when that understanding
changes with new discoveries, such as finding Ebola virus in chimps
months after infection. They also talk a little virus philosophy
and cover topics like what enables virus entry into cells and how
tropism works.
For more about Dr. Reid and his
work, see his website at the university,
unmc.edu/pathology/faculty/bios/reid.html, and follow him on Twitter as @StPatrickReid3.
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