This Week in Microbiology
The podcast about unseen life on Earth
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TWiM #112: Mushroom pickers and mushroom kickers
The TWiM team wonders why definitions in biology often change, ...
The TWiM team wonders why definitions in biology often change, and discuss how the small molecule terrein is important for the growth of a soil fungus. Image: Lesion formation on banana surfaces infected with Aspergillus terreus. Source Links...
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TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter. The TWiMitos ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter. The TWiMitos discuss the reconstruction of a 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy, and using gallium as an antimicrobial in the battle for iron. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on...
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TWiM #110: Exploring unseen life with unpronounceable words
The TWiM team focuses on the gut microbiome, from a ...
The TWiM team focuses on the gut microbiome, from a single member, Akkermansia muciniphila, to the effect of antibiotics on its composition and colonization resistance against C. difficile. Subscribe to TWiM (free)...
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TWiM #109: Precision killing
The TWiM cohort discusses the use of antimicrobial peptides to ...
The TWiM cohort discusses the use of antimicrobial peptides to target specific bacteria in the microbiome, and how the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia selectively kills male hosts. Links for this episode: Antimicrobial peptides to...
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TWiM #108: Vaccine in the time of cholera
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. The professors of TWiM discuss a University of Wisconsin plan for rescuing biomedical research in the US, and results of a clinical...
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TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt. Vincent and Michael discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt. Vincent and Michael discuss the highly diverse microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians, and how the composition of human urine plays a role in the battle for iron. Subscribe to TWiM (free)...
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TWiM #106: Lawn mower disease
Vincent and Michael speak with Katy Bosio about her research ...
Vincent and Michael speak with Katy Bosio about her research on pathogenesis, immunity, and vaccines against Franciscella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.
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TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs
The TWiM team reviews the microbiological safety of herbs in ...
The TWiM team reviews the microbiological safety of herbs in the United Kingdom, and how a peptide from the milkweek bug binds the ribosome and inhibits bacterial protein synthesis. Links for this episode: Microbes in whole-leaf...
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TWiM #104: Feed me polyamines, biofilm
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. The TWiM team discusses how measles vaccination protects against other infectious diseases, and links between bacterial biofilms and...
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TWiM #103: The battle for iron
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. The TWiM team is amazed by the ocelloid, and an evolutionary battle for iron between mammalian transferrin and bacterial...
