This Week in Microbiology
The podcast about unseen life on Earth
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TWiM #102: Happiness is the spore-formers in your gut
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. The TWiM team discusses evidence that serotonin synthesis is regulated by spore-forming members of the gut microbiota. Subscribe to TWiM...
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TWiM #101: The MRSA in your home
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. The TWiMers discuss how aroma helps disperse yeast cells on insect vectors, and evidence that MRSA is transmitted within...
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TWiM #100: Omnis cellula e cellula
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Jo Handelsman. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Jo Handelsman. The TWiM team celebrates 100 episodes with a Talmudic question, and discussion of how a single mutation alters bacterial host...
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TWiM #99: Careers in Biodefense
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Maria Julia Marinissen, Edward H. You, ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Maria Julia Marinissen, Edward H. You, and David R. Howell Vincent meets up with Maria, Edward, and David at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Infections Research meeting to talk about alternative...
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TWiM #98: Bacteria and eukaryotes get horizontal
The TWiM crew ponders the question of how a bacterium ...
The TWiM crew ponders the question of how a bacterium finds its middle when dividing, then divulge the transfer of interbacterial antagonism genes to eukaryotes, where they may function in innate defense. Links for this...
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TWiM #97: There’s gold in them hills
The TWiM team reveal how bacteria in a shipworm’s gills ...
The TWiM team reveal how bacteria in a shipworm’s gills help digest wood in the gut, and an approach that identifies a new antibiotic from the soil. Links for this episode: Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy...
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TWiM #96: A lean, mean sequencing machine
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello. Special guest: Rob Knight Vincent meets up ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello. Special guest: Rob Knight Vincent meets up with Rob Knight to talk about the technology that has fueled his drive to sequence the Earth and its inhabitants. Check out the Microbeworld app. Links for this...
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TWiM #95: A microbe lover in San Diego
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello. Special guest: Stanley Maloy Vincent meets up ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello. Special guest: Stanley Maloy Vincent meets up with Stan Maloy on the campus of San Diego State University to talk about his career in microbiology and his work as Dean of Science. Subscribe to TWiM (free)...
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TWiM #94: Nitrochondria
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a symbiosis between a nitrogen-fixing ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a symbiosis between a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria and a single-celled eukaryotic alga. Links for this episode: Unicellular cyanobacterium and alga symbiosis (Science) Diversity of...
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TWiM #93: Worming in on bacteria
Vincent, Elio, and Michael reveal that a soil-dwelling nematode can ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michael reveal that a soil-dwelling nematode can recognize and respond to a bacterial quorum sensing molecule through a sensory neuron.
