{"id":18959,"date":"2022-10-28T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=130127"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:41:09","slug":"instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Genius Podcast: COVID in waste, with Dave O\u2019Connor and Marc Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>

By Jason Goodyer\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

\n\n

Instant Genius<\/em> is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to virologists Dave O\u2019Connor and Marc Johnson from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison.<\/p>\n

For the past year, they have been hunting down a heavily mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 \u2013 the virus that causes COVID-19 \u2013 searching through everything from sewage water to dog poo at the university\u2019s O\u2019Connor Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this episode of Instant Genius<\/em>, they explain how viruses mutate, how there may be rogue forms of coronavirus still out there and how we can track viruses down.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\""ad-slot\" hidden-print=\"\">\n<div class=\""ad-slot__container"\">\n<div id=\""ad-post-mpu-teads"\" class=\""dfp-ad"\" data-adsizes=\""[[[0,0],[[300,250]]]]"\" data-adtargets=\"'{"pos":["outstream"]}'\" data-adrefresh=\""true"\" data-google-query-id=\""CL3XsM-DzvoCFRwWBgAdti4HYA"\">\n<div id=\""google_ads_iframe_\/176986657\/Sciencefocus.com\/instant-genius-podcast\/instant-genius-podcast_3__container__"\">\n<div id=\""im-instream-video-con"\">\n<div id=\""im-instream-video-con"\">\n<p>Find\u00a0<em>Instant Genius<\/em> on your preferred podcast platform here: <a href=\"\/\/instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>Listen to more episodes of Instant Genius:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul><li><a class=\""standard-card-new__article-title\" qa-card-link=\"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/science\/instant-genius-podcast-irrational-thinking-and-beliefs-with-steven-pinker\/"\">Irrational thinking and beliefs, with Steven Pinker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-flies-with-dr-erica-mcalister\/"\">Flies with Dr Erica McAlister<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-medical-detection-dogs-with-dr-claire-guest\/"\">Medical Detection Dogs, with Dr Claire Guest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/instant-genius-podcast-holding-the-universe-in-your-hands-with-dr-kimberly-arcand\/"\">Holding the Universe in your hands, with Dr Kimberly Arcand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-the-heart-with-sian-harding\/"\">The heart, with Sian Harding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-spider-season-with-prof-adam-hart\/"\">Spider season, with Prof Adam Hart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Goodyer Published: Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to virologists Dave O\u2019Connor and Marc Johnson from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. For the past year, they have been hunting down a heavily mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 \u2013 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18960,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson.jpg",940,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson-768x327.jpg",768,327,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson.jpg",800,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson.jpg",940,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/10\/instant-genius-podcast-covid-in-waste-with-dave-oconnor-and-marc-johnson.jpg",940,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Jason Goodyer Published: Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to virologists Dave O\u2019Connor and Marc Johnson from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. For the past year, they have been hunting down a heavily mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 \u2013 the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/18959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}