Cvr Podcast Contagious Thinking

In this episode, Connor chats with two CVR scientists, principal investigator and director of the institute, Professor Massimo Palmarini, and PhD student and vet, Eleonora Melzi. Eleonora and Massimo explain to us a bit about their work, which has recently been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Their paper provides new insights into how bluetongue virus evades the immune response of its host by drastically altering the workings of the lymph node, a critical organ of the immune response. Bluetongue is a very serious infection in sheep and other livestock animals and is an arbovirus, spread by midges. Climate change and global warming are making bluetongue outbreaks more common in Northern Europe and the UK. Find out more at the Contagious Thinking blog: http://cvr.academicblogs.co.uk/architectural-antagonism-by-an-acute-arbovirus/ And read the paper (Open access) here: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/23/1610012113.full Image credits from Eleonora Melzi. Th