This Week in Microbiology
The podcast about unseen life on Earth
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TWiM #62: Breaking bad and protein chain mail
Vincent and Michael discuss how infection with influenza A virus ...
Vincent and Michael discuss how infection with influenza A virus disperses Streptococcus pneumoniae biofilms leading to disease, and an amazing protein chainmail in a viral capsid
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TWiM #61: The irony of probiotics
Vincent, Elio, and Michele review how horizontal gene transfer from ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michele review how horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to an insect genome enables a tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis, and how probiotic bacteria work by competing for iron in the intestine.
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TWiM #60: Microbial electrochemistry and diversity-generating retroelements
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss how an error-prone reverse transcriptase ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss how an error-prone reverse transcriptase produces enormous diversity in a Legionella protein, and using microbes to convert waste into bioelectricity and chemicals.
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TWiM #59: Are viruses part of our immune system?
Vincent and Michael discuss the finding that bacteriophage might be ...
Vincent and Michael discuss the finding that bacteriophage might be part of the mucosal antimicrobial defense system.
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TWiM #58: The brain microbiome?
Vincent, Elio and Michael review how underground mycelial networks carry ...
Vincent, Elio and Michael review how underground mycelial networks carry signals that warn neighboring plants of aphid attack, and the presence of bacteria in the human brain.
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TWiM #57: Updating the human gut microbiome to degrade seaweed
Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss fungi that use pheromones to ...
Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss fungi that use pheromones to trap nematodes, and how genes obtained from marine bacteria help gut bacteria degrade algal carbohydrates.
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TWiM #56: Live at ASM in Denver
Vincent, Elio and Michael recorded this episode before an audience ...
Vincent, Elio and Michael recorded this episode before an audience at the 2013 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Denver, Colorado, where they spoke with Andrew, Ferric, Suzanne, and Michelle about their research on a phage...
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TWiM #55: In the copper room
Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss the finding that copper surfaces ...
Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss the finding that copper surfaces reduce microbial burden and hospital-acquired infections in the intensive care unit.
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TWiM #54: Dueling injectors and the microgenderome
Vincent, Elio, and Michael review how sex-dependent differences in the ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michael review how sex-dependent differences in the mouse microbiome regulate type I diabetes, and counterattack among bacteria.
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TWiM #53: Live in Manchester
Vincent, Laura, David, Kalin and Paul get together at the ...
Vincent, Laura, David, Kalin and Paul get together at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Manchester, England to talk about next-generation approaches to antimicrobial therapy.
