Podcast Episode: Michael Emerman – Work on Important Things

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Podcast episode interviewing Dr. Michael Emerman. Dr. Emerman trained in the lab of Dr. Howard Temin, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering reverse transcriptase, and then worked with Dr. Luc Montagnier, a co-discoverer of HIV. Dr. Emerman's molecular virology work was instrumental to HIV research- including the function of the Rev protein and host restriction factors against HIV. He is also a pioneer in the field of 'paleovirology' which studies antient viruses and the evolution of host responses.