TWiM #133: Right under our noses
Insight into the biology of rhinovirus C from cryo-electron microscopy, and a novel antibiotic from a commensal bacterium that grows in the human nose, from the doctors of TWiM. Hosts: Vincent Racanie...
20 Aug 20161h 1min
TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
Vincent, Elio, and Michele present cell division by longitudinal scission in an insect symbiont, and thermally activated charge transport in microbial nanowires. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swa...
5 Aug 201657min
TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt Michael and Vincent present Spotlights, brief reviews of classic papers in the Journal of Bacteriology, and explain how a single bacterial species can rev...
20 Jul 20161h 22min
TWiM #130: Interkingdom interactions at ASM Microbe
Filmed live in Boston, MA at Microbe 2016, David S. Schneider and Vanessa Sperandio talk about their work on regulation of bacterial virulence in the gut by bacterial adrenergic sensors, and the physi...
23 Jun 20161h 17min
TWiM #129: Dried and wrinkled, smooth and mucoid
The arrival in the US of plasmid-mediated resistance to colistin antibiotics, a last line of defense against many gram-negative bacilli, and a quorum sensing system in a eukaryote are topics of this e...
7 Jun 20161h 10min
TWiM #128: A moonlighting phage protein
A eukaryote without a mitochondrion, and using a phage enzyme to eliminate intracellular bacteria are two topics discussed by the TWiMers on this episode. Image (right): An entry in the ASM Agar Art C...
21 Mai 20161h 17min
TWiM #127: Subway Snowblowers and Men in Black
The TWiM team explores microbes in snowblower vents on the ocean floor, and cleavage of antibody molecules by a Mycoplasma protease. Image (right): Photograph of the 'Subway' snowblower vent on the se...
5 Mai 201654min
TWiM #126: I'm not scared of zebrafish and mice and bears (oh my!)
The microbiome of hibernating bears, and zebrafish as a model for bacterial sepsis feature in this animal-centric episode of TWiM hosted by Vincent, Michael, and Michele. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Mi...
22 Apr 20161h 7min
