Cvr Podcast Contagious Thinking

**After listening, please fill in our short questionnaire about your experience https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5pN8gFrUU9n0v0WRYfMH3y3YwHDyQOBs9k5JK1M8OewMLFQ/viewform ** In preparation for the Northern hemisphere's 'flu season, Josie speaks with the CVR’s Dr Ed Hutchinson – an MRC career development fellow – and Dr Swetha Vijayakrishnan, a postdoc in the group of Dr David Bhella for our latest episode and asks them about a mysterious aspect of influenza biology. Ed and Swetha share a fascination with the reasons why viruses such as influenza and ebola produce very, very long and thin particles and here they tell us about how they're using state-of-the-art proteomic and molecular techniques in combination with advanced 'cryo' electron microscopy to understand the biology of these amazing filamentous structures. Read more on our blog post here: http://cvr.academicblogs.co.uk/freezing-flu-filaments/ Image adapted from Vijayakrishnan et al., 2013 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23754946)