Virology Lectures 2023 #1: What is a virus?

If you want to understand life on Earth; if you want to know about human health and disease, you need to know about viruses. The first lecture of my 2023 Columbia University virology course provides an introduction to the amazing field of virology. In this session we answer the questions, what is a virus? and are viruses alive? We discuss discovery and fundamental properties of viruses, explain why they are the most amazing and intriguing biological entities on Earth. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that everyone needs to learn about viruses! Support educational work like this by becoming a patron of MicrobeTV at microbe.tv/contribute ——————————— CONNECT ——————————— 🎯 Subscribe to this channel! https://bit.ly/2HOYdNP Instagram: @profvrr and @microbe.tv Twitter: @profvrr Facebook: http://facebook.com/thisweekinvirology Our Podcasts: https://microbe.tv Contribute: https://www.microbe.tv/contribute/ ——————————— MORE VIROLOGY ——————————— •My Virology Course https://virology.ws/course •Virology Blog: https://www.virology.ws •This Week in Virology https://bit.ly/30uUhrX •Virus Watch https://bit.ly/3ngvQIM •Principles of Virology textbook https://amzn.to/34onDtg ——————————— OUR OTHER PODCASTS ——————————— •This Week in Parasitism https://bit.ly/3ndUNUZ •This Week in Microbiology https://bit.ly/33tOUeO •Urban Agriculture http://microbe.tv/urbanag •This Week in Evolution https://bit.ly/3ne1bf5 •Immune https://bit.ly/2HOyCVb •This Week in Neuroscience https://bit.ly/2So12Yd – Who Am I? – I’m Vincent Racaniello, Earth’s Virology Professor. I’m also a professor of virology at Columbia University in New York. I’ve been doing research on viruses since 1976, and teaching virology in classrooms and online since 1999. On this YouTube channel I share videos of my lectures, podcasts, and more. New videos are uploaded multiple days a week. I don’t monetize my videos because it’s disruptive to learning. If you would like to support our work, go over to https://www.microbe.tv/contribute/ ——————————————————————— #virology #viruses #coronavirus #pandemic ———————————————————————