TWiM #141: Nutritional immunity and polymicrobial infections
Jennifer joins Vincent, Elio, and Michael to talk about the work of her laboratory on how a respiratory virus enhances bacterial growth by dysregulating nutritional immunity. Hosts: Vincent Racaniell...
15 Des 20161h 5min
TWiM 140: Small town, big science
Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Marie Antonioli, Bryan Hansen, Forrest Jessop, Kyle Shifflet and Jim Striebel At the Hamilton, Montana Performing Arts Center, Vincent speaks with three local high sch...
1 Des 20161h 20min
TWiM #139: Frackibacter and sticky fingers
The TWiM team discusses microbial DNA found on ATM machines in New York City, and how hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, alters microbial ecosystems deep in the Earth. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Mich...
18 Nov 20161h 11min
TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum
The TWiM team brings you a bacterium from a Colorado field site that grows on uranium, and copper resistance in the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmi...
3 Nov 20161h 2min
TWiM #137: The battle for oxygen
Highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aerobic respiration. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Sc...
20 Okt 20161h 8min
TWiM #136: Diderms and then monoderms
Them TWiM team discusses the importance of neutrophils in microbial infections, and evidence that ancient bacteria had two cell walls. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and ...
7 Okt 201648min
TWiM #135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends
Links for this episode Dysbiosis of microbiome in critical illness (mSphere) Consequences of sewage spill into aquatic environment (App Env Mic) EPA recreational water guidelines (pdf) VRE following ...
23 Sep 20161h 6min
TWiM #134: Lipids that live forever
Design of a synchronously lysing bacterium for delivery of anti-tumor molecules in mice, and hopanoids, the lipids that live forever, brought to you by the four Microbies of TWiM. Hosts: Vincent Racan...
8 Sep 20161h 4min
