This Week in Microbiology
The podcast about unseen life on Earth
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TWiM #22: Microbiology 911
Vincent and Michael speak with Alfred Sacchetti, MD, Chief of ...
Vincent and Michael speak with Alfred Sacchetti, MD, Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, about microbial infections encountered in the emergency room.
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TWiM #21: Symbiotic margheritas
Vincent and Elio discuss ancient symbiosis between Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid ...
Vincent and Elio discuss ancient symbiosis between Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid flatworms, and a toxin from Helicobacter pylori that engages the mitochondrial fission machinery to induce host cell death.
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TWiM #20: Facebook for bacteria
On episode #20 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, ...
On episode #20 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, and Elio follow up on the outbreaks of E. coli in Germany and cholera in Haiti, then discuss genes that confer self-identity to Proteus mirabilis.
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TWiM #19: Your microbiome is what you eat
Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Jo discuss the genome sequence of ...
Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Jo discuss the genome sequence of Y. pestis from victims of the Black Death, and the effect of diet on gut microbial enterotypes.
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TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?
Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the ...
Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the human intestinal commensal and benign laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 into an invasive organism, and the unearthing of century-old spores in New York City.
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TWiM #17: Debugging endosymbiosis
Vincent, Michael, and Elio focus on endosymbiosis: the rapid spread ...
Vincent, Michael, and Elio focus on endosymbiosis: the rapid spread of Ricekttsia in whitefiles, and a metabolic patchwork in nested symbionts of mealybugs.
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TWiM #16: ICAAC Live
On episode #16 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, ...
On episode #16 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease at the 51st Interscience Conference...
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TWiM #15: Microbial long distance relationships
On episode #15 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, ...
On episode #15 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael and Jo review the number of species on Earth, evidence that the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak originated in Nepal, and how gut microbiota influence the immune response to...
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TWiM #14: Vomocytosis and microbial transistors
On episode #14 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, ...
On episode #14 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Stanley, Margaret, Michael and Elio review how the fungus Cryptococcus escapes from macrophages, and electrical conductivity in nanowires formed by the bacterium Geobacter.
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TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
On episode #13 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, ...
On episode #13 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Stanley, Jo, Michael and Elio discuss how colonic microbial ecology and risk for colitis are regulated by an inflammasome, and amelioration of intestinal inflammation in mice by delivery of...
