Each week Daniel presents the symptoms and signs of an interesting case that he has investigated during his work, without identifying the infectious agent. Listeners are encouraged to send in their guesses to this weekly infectious disease mystery.
The TWiP trio strives for an informal yet informative conversation about parasites which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background. As science Professors at Columbia University, Dickson, Vincent and Daniel have directed research laboratories focused on parasites and viruses. Their enthusiasm for teaching inspired them to reach beyond the classroom with new media. TWiP is for everyone who wants to learn about parasites in a relaxing way.
Links to each episode of TWiP are listed below. All episodes can also be found at microbe.tv/twip.
- TWiP 244: Engineering Toxoplasma
- TWiP 243: Don't blame it on Mexico
- TWiP 242: Worms impair COVID vaccines
- TWiP 241: There once was a patient from China
- TWiP 240: A daily history of malaria with Sean Murphy
- TWiP 239: Cryptosporidiosis from NYC tap water in an AIDS patient
- TWiP 238: Eliminating sleeping sickness
- TWiP 237: Pass the venison, deer with Marilyn Fabbri
- TWiP 236: Prime-and-trap vaccine for malaria
- TWiP 235: The case of the regurgitated wriggler
- TWiP 234: Hookworms and a leech – parasites suck!
- TWiP 233: Cryptosporidium not cryptocurrency
- TWiP 232: Lives of Wolbachia
- TWiP 231: Scotch in drink and tape
- TWiP 230: Healing cutaneous leishmaniasis with Maria Adelaida Gomez
- TWiP 229: The very hungry flatworm
- TWiP 228: Parasitic fountain of youth
- TWiP 227: Alpha-gal syndrome
- TWiP 226: Successful systems attract parasites
- TWiP 225: Wandering worm with Lee Gottesdiener
- TWiP 224: Neglected tropical diseases roadmap with Chuck Knirsch
- TWiP 223: Voluminous diarrhea
- TWiP 222: Balamuthia in the brain with Natasha Spottiswoode
- TWiP 221: Delusional parasitosis
- TWiP 220: Denies any bug bites
- TWIP 219: Sick as a dog
- TWiP 218: Malaria parasite evades mosquito
- TWiP 217: ChatGPT solves the case
- TWiP 216: A challenging case
- TWiP 215: A mobile piece of spaghetti
- TWiP 214: Tropical medicine excursions with Kay Schaefer
- TWiP 213: One deadly snail with Jessie Stone, MD
- TWiP 212: The Man from Mali with Shauna Gunaratne
- TWiP 211: Monoclonal against malaria in Mali
- TWiP 210: Is there a doctor on board? with Aisha Khatib
- TWiP 209: A worm in paradise
- TWiP 208: A red herring
- TWiP 207: Accidental host with Claire Panosian, MD
- TWiP 206: Bacteria protect mosquitoes from parasites
- TWiP 205: Two for the price of one
- TWiP 204: Near a fast-flowing river
- TWiP 203: True, true, and unrelated
- TWiP 202: 80 microns and ovoid
- TWiP 201: Tiny and hairy
- TWiP 200: Parasites without borders
- TWiP 199: Chagas kisses Cruzi and Brucei bites
- TWiP 198: Cyclospora in the dining room with the salad bar
- TWiP 197: An adventurous eater
- TWiP 196: Naked eye entomologist
- TWiP 195: Shocking diseases in attractive NY accents
- TWiP 194: Eye had a corneal scraping
- TWiP 193: A serpiginous trail
- TWiP 192: Towel off vigorously
- TWiP 191: Dickson’s ocular anomaly
- TWiP 190: But Doc, what could it be?
- TWiP 189: Toe jammin’
- TWiP 188: Terrible tropisms
- TWiP 187: Granny’s granuloma
- TWiP 186: Not rationing rationality
- TWiP 185: Latrinalia
- TWiP 184: The hunter gets captured by the game
- TWiP 183: When they dry they die
- TWiP 182: Super spreaders of science
- TWiP 181: Daniel’s drive-through
- TWiP 180: A spleen palaver
- TWiP 179: Verminous visitors
- TWiP 178: The shadowlands of medicine
- TWiP 177: A scabrous education
- TWiP 176: Blood schmear
- TWiP 175: None alone pathognomonic
- TWiP 174: Fat cat
- TWiP 173: Rose-colored spots
- TWiP 172: A painless lesion
- TWiP 171: Better than a sharp stick in the eye
- TWiP 170: A worm’s eye view
- TWiP 169: What goes on in the snail
- TWiP 168: Kleptoparasitism and the stercoraceous souvenir
- TWiP 167: The constipated mathematician
- TWiP 166: From remote locations
- TWiP 165: The sound of crackles
- TWiP 164: Surf n’ perf
- TWiP 163: Trout and parasites
- TWiP 162: That swollen parcel of dropsies
- TWiP 161: All I need is a bit of skin
- TWiP 160: Toddy tappers
- TWiP 159: Loa and Loa but not gone
- TWiP 158: Ant-appetising slime balls
- TWiP 157: What a long, strange TWiP it’s been
- TWiP 156: The parasitic devil is in the details
- TWiP 155: Miss Dickson
- TWiP 154: A louse-y episode
- TWiP 153: Ars longa, vita brevis
- TWiP 152: A range of rads
- TWiP 151: Indiscriminate bulk feeders
- TWiP 150: Fast food
- TWiP 149: Stranger in a strange land
- TWiP 148: Weep and sweep
- TWiP 147: The savvy physician tests the tissue
- TWiP 146: Thus misspake Despommier
- TWiP 145: Is it excreted or secreted?
- TWiP 144: A blood-free snip
- TWiP 143: There’s a lot of worms out there
- TWiP 142: Just a virus, go home
- TWiP 141: Paratransgenesis
- TWiP 140: Blasting Blastocystis
- TWiP 139: Eggsactly, ova and ova
- TWiP 138: Telmophages and the skin parasite landscape
- TWiP 137: An aberrant encounter
- TWiP 136: Daniel throws a softball
- TWiP 135: Embryonated eggs of wisdom
- TWiP 134: Does toxoplasma make you sexy?
- TWiP 133: Tape test
- TWiP 132: Salted crab som tum
- TWiP 131: Entomophagy
- TWiP 130: Paige Turner
- TWiP 129: Human kindness, river blindness
- TWiP 128: It’s over 9000!
- TWiP 127: Kava not Cava
- TWiP 126: A virus walks into a parasite
- TWiP 125: Third time’s a charm
- TWiP 124: RPAing with the tryps
- TWiP 123: What we know is confusing
- TWiP 122: If the thunder don’t get you, the lightning will
- TWiP 121: A parasite without borders
- TWiP 120: When they die they calcify
- TWiP 119: A kinder and gentler case
- TWiP 118: Crispr capers with Toxoplasma
- TWiP 117: Parasitic puzzles
- TWiP 116: One drug to rule them all
- TWiP 115: The Cuscuta Factor
- TWiP 114: Plant potions perturb Plasmodium
- TWiP 113: Flying pigs
- TWiP 112: A NOD to a tricky helminth
- TWiP 111: Bug bites
- TWiP 110: Malaria at the Bronx Zoo
- TWiP 109: Blame it on Mother
- TWiP 108: B1 cells and Leishmania, insider traitors
- TWiP 107: Parasites leave a bad taste in my gut
- TWiP 106: Trematode stormtroopers in snail wars
- TWiP 105: Survival of the fattest
- TWiP 104: La maladie du sommeil
- TWiP 103: Scroll down, please
- TWiP 102: Nursing eosinophils
- TWiP 101: Is it round or is it flat?
- TWiP 100: Driving past a milestone
- TWiP 99: You get your polar bear from your nana
- TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile
- TWiP 97: The seven year itch
- TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia
- TWiP 95: Arsenic and Leishmania
- TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit
- TWiP 93: A fishy tale unfolds
- TWiP 92: Kleptohaemodeipnonism
- TWiP 91: Born to deform
- TWiP 90: A carbuncle is a large furuncle
- TWiP 89: Day TWiPers
- TWiP 88: French foreign lesion
- TWiP 87: Stumped by pinworm
- TWiP 86: Worms Loa the immune response to mycobacteria
- TWiP 85: Channeling tryps
- TWiP 84: Bigfoot
- TWiP 83: Hidden costs of infection
- TWiP 82: A NOD to helminths
- TWiP 81: Living in a wormy world
- TWiP 80: Daniel in the parasites’ den
- TWiP 79: Across the river and into the trees
- TWiP 78: Eau de rodent
- TWiP 77: Mixed messages
- TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out
- TWiP 75: Parasite wonders with Bobbi Pritt
- TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question?
- TWiP 73: I’m nibbling my way back to you
- TWiP 72: Wormholes
- TWiP 71: Happy trails to you
- TWiP 70: Invasion of the swamp eels
- TWiP 69: Malaria rising
- TWiP 68: Sex and the single trypanosome
- TWiP 67: They find each other delightful
- TWiP 66: A nitrile warhead for Chagas disease
- TWiP 65: The real world wide web
- TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria
- TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes
- TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
- TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped
- TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse
- TWiP 59: Apicomplexity
- TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares
- TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis
- TWiP 56: Whirling disease
- TWiP 55: A ladybird’s weapon
- TWiP 54: Unde venis?
- TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity
- TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm
- TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James
- TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut
- TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme
- TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device
- TWiP 47: For whom the trich tolls
- TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger
- TWiP 45: Free range Toxoplasma with John Boothroyd
- TWiP 44: Parasites provide a cricket subsidy for trout
- TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts
- TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking
- TWiP 41: Flying and crawling beasts
- TWiP 40: Doctor, there’s a worm in my eye!
- TWiP 39: I encyst, said the amoeba
- TWiP 38: How to Trichomonas
- TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis
- TWiP 36: Trichuris and microbes plan a hatch
- TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock
- TWiP 34: Up against the Wolbachia
- TWiP 33: Hide and seek
- TWiP 32: Evasive trypanosomes and schistosomes
- TWiP 31 – A malaria vaccine
- TWiP 30: Global infectious disease control with Charles Knirsch
- TWiP 29: Neglected tropical diseases with Peter Hotez
- TWiP 28: Medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz
- TWiP 27: Trematodes
- TWiP 26: The schistosomes
- TWiP 25: Wuchereria bancrofti
- TWiP 24: Onchocerca volvulus, a vector-borne, filarial nematode
- TWiP 23: Strongyloides sterocoralis, a most unusual parasite
- TWiP 22: Hookworm
- TWiP 21 – The giant intestinal worm, Ascaris lumbricoides
- TWiP 20 – The whipworm Trichuris trichiura
- TWiP 19: Enterobius vermicularis, the pinworm
- TWiP 18: Cryptosporidium
- TWiP 17: Entamoeba histolytica
- TWiP 16: Giardia
- TWiP 15: Tryp the light fantastic
- TWiP 14: Leishmania
- TWiP 13: Toxoplasmosis
- TWiP 12: Toxoplasma gondii
- TWiP 11: One times three million
- TWiP 10: Plasmodium life cycle
- TWiP 9: Mala aria
- TWiP 8: Frog legs and parasite tales
- TWiP 7: Tapeworms are fantastic!
- TWiP 6: Tapeworms, the long and short of it
- TWiP 5 – The nurse cell
- TWiP 4: Trichinella life cycle
- TWiP 3: Trichinella spiralis