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The Rapidly Expanding Universe of Giant Viruses - Jean-Michel Claverie

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The Rapidly Expanding Universe of Giant Viruses: Mimivirus, Pandoravirus, Pithovirus, Mollivirus... (2003-2015) Lecture by Jean-Michel Claverie, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, France, at Infectious Disease Genomics (14-16 October 2015), organised by Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences. ...more
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The Chamberland filter Water sterilization through microbe retention (1884)

2:03

Mimivirus discovery looking for Legionella inside Acanthamoeba

5:58

AMERICAN Scientist

8:25

A simple working hypothesis

11:47

A gigantic virion factory

15:45

The environmental turn

17:05

Other DNA viruses in the sea

18:26

Phaeocystis globosa bloom

20:28

Megavirus: 1.28 Mb!

22:05

Giants among viruses (2004-2011)

23:47

New Life Form: Chile (2009), Australia (2011)

27:04

Giants among giant viruses (2013) More genes than parasitic microsporidia (eukaryotes)

32:58

phagocytosis

33:45

membrane fusion

33:53

Step 3

34:06

Early nuclear (disruptive) phase

34:13

Particle formation: "knitting"

34:54

Opening Pandora's "box"

37:41

Wild speculations

38:45

4 (+1) families of giant viruses infecting Acanthamoeba

47:10

The same initial infection strategy

48:12
The Rapidly Expanding Universe of Giant Viruses - Jean-Michel Claverie
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The Rapidly Expanding Universe of Giant Viruses: Mimivirus, Pandoravirus, Pithovirus, Mollivirus... (2003-2015) Lecture by Jean-Michel Claverie, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, France, at Infectious Disease Genomics (14-16 October 2015), organised by Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences.

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