This Week in Microbiology
The podcast about unseen life on Earth
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TWiM #82: Betrayal and compromise
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. Vincent, Michael, Elio and Michele discuss how an endosymbiont betrays its aphid host to alert plant defenses, and a new immunosuppressive cell...
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TWiM #81: Cold iron is the master of them all
Vincent, Michael, and Michele discuss how iron might disperse bacterial ...
Vincent, Michael, and Michele discuss how iron might disperse bacterial biofilms in carotid arterial plaques, and controlling Salmonella by modulating host iron homeostasis.
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TWiM #80: Hurling fleas and designer chromosomes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson. Vincent, Elio, ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson. Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how to synthesize a designer yeast chromosome, and deciphering the genetic changes path that allowed Yersinia pestis to be...
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TWiM #79: A community of microbiologists
Vincent, Michael, and Michele review highlights of the 2014 General ...
Vincent, Michael, and Michele review highlights of the 2014 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, MA.
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TWiM #78: A bacterium grows in Brooklyn
Vincent, Elio, and Michael consider a fungal pathogen of insects ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michael consider a fungal pathogen of insects that acquired a gene from its host that facilitates infection, and presence of gram-negative nosocomial pathogens on community surfaces near hospitals in Brooklyn.
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TWiM #77: Zombie plants and no pain, no gain
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle review how a pathogen promotes ...
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle review how a pathogen promotes plant attractiveness to insect vectors, and activation of sensory neurons that modulate pain and inflammation by bacterial infection.
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TWiM #76: Genetic biopixels and a pathogenic sweet tooth
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle discuss the use of bacteria ...
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle discuss the use of bacteria to build a genetic sensor for heavy metals, and how host sugars help enteric pathogens to expand after antibiotic treatment.
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TWiM #75: Pellicles on pickle jars
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle discuss a symbiosis between a ...
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michelle discuss a symbiosis between a bacterium and fungus that increases the virulence of oral biofilms, and the assembly of amyloid fibers, which are needed for biofilm formation.
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TWiM #74: It came from the Siberian permafrost
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a huge 30,000 year old ...
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a huge 30,000 year old virus recovered from Siberia, and nested symbiosis facilitated by horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to insect.
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TWiM #73: Eyeing root nodule development
Vincent, Michael, and Michele discuss how soil-dwelling bacteria induce the ...
Vincent, Michael, and Michele discuss how soil-dwelling bacteria induce the formation of root nodules on legumes via a protein called CYCLOPS.
