TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
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This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.
TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
1w ago
TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin.
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Natural products from ancient bacterial genomes (Science)
Plant mRNAs move into fungal pathogens (Cell Host Microb)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
3w ago
TWiM reviews the ongoing cholera outbreak in Africa, and research showing that gut complement induced by the microbiota blocks pathogens and spares commensal bacteria.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Cholera in Southern Africa (Africa CDC)
Deadly cholera outbreak in Africa (NY Times)
Pediatric cholera in sub-Saharan Africa (Curr Op Ped)
Gut complement spares commensals (Cell)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
3w ago
TWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and siderophore in uropathogenic Escherichia coli.
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New blue cheese-making fungus (Evol Appl)
Threat to Camenbert cheese (Guardian)
French Cheese Under Threat (CNRS News)
Fungadapt project (YouTube)
Microbes Make the Cheese (ASM)
Yersiniabactin in uropathogenic Escherichia coli (mBio)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
1M ago
TWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and siderophore in uropathogenic Escherichia coli.
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Links for this episode
New blue cheese-making fungus (Evol Appl)
Threat to Camenbert cheese (Guardian)
French Cheese Under Threat (CNRS News)
Fungadapt project (YouTube)
Microbes Make the Cheese (ASM)
Yersiniabactin in uropathogenic Escherichia coli (mBio)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
1M ago
TWiM reveals a database of genome sequences of thousands of Mycobaterium tuberculosis, allowing association with resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiotics, and microbe-derived uremic solutes that enhance thrombosis potential in the host.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
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M. tuberculosis genomes and antimicrobial resistance (PLoS Biol)
The CRyPTIC consortium
BashTheBug
Zooniverse
Microbial solutes enhance thrombosis (mBio)
Can our microbiome break our heart? (mBio)
Pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease (EJIFCC)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
2M ago
A highly reduced TWiM team presents a study of the use of phage diversity in cell-free DNA to identify bacterial pathogens in human sepsis cases, and the evolution, persistence, and host adaptation of a gonococcal antimicrobial resistance plasmid that emerged in the pre-antibiotic era.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Petra Levin
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Phages identify sepsis pathogens (Nat Micro)
Gonococcal AMR plasmid from pre-antibiotic era (PLoS Genetics)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
2M ago
A highly reduced TWiM team presents a study of the use of phage diversity in cell-free DNA to identify bacterial pathogens in human sepsis cases, and the evolution, persistence, and host adaptation of a gonococcal antimicrobial resistance plasmid that emerged in the pre-antibiotic era.
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Links for this episode
Phages identify sepsis pathogens (Nat Micro)
Gonococcal AMR plasmid from pre-antibiotic era (PLoS Genetics)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
3M ago
On the occasion of TWiM’s 300th episode, we discuss how two college students found a new antibiotic in soil, Barbara Iglewski’s passing, and Elio returns for an appearance.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Guest: Elio Schaechter
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Barbara Iglewski dies
Antimicrobial activity of P. nicotinovorans (MicroPubl Biol)
2 NWTC students found a new antibiotic in soil (Green Bay Press Gazette)
ESKAPE bacteria group (Clover)
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TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
3M ago
On the occasion of TWiM’s 300th episode, we discuss how two college students found a new antibiotic in soil, Barbara Iglewski’s passing, and Elio returns for an appearance.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Guest: Elio Schaechter
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Links for this episode
Barbara Iglewski dies
Antimicrobial activity of P. nicotinovorans (MicroPubl Biol)
2 NWTC students found a new antibiotic in soil (Green Bay Press Gazette)
ESKAPE bacteria group (Clover)
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Send your microbiology questions and comments (email o ..read more
TWiM | This Week in Microbiology
4M ago
From ASM’s Conference for Undergraduate Educators 2023 in Phoenix, TWiM speaks with Amaya Garcia Costas and Gwendolyn Knapp about their approaches to undergraduate microbiology education, and how they use TWiM as part of their curricula.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Guest: Amaya Garcia Costas and Gwendolyn Knapp.
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ASMCUE 2023
Teaching in the time of COVID-19 (J Microbiol Biol Edu)
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