TWiM #20: Facebook for bacteria
On episode #20 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, and Elio follow up on the outbreaks of E. coli in Germany and cholera in Haiti, then discuss genes that confer self-identity ...
16 Nov 20111h 7min
TWiM #19: Your microbiome is what you eat
Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Jo discuss the genome sequence of Y. pestis from victims of the Black Death, and the effect of diet on gut microbial enterotypes.
2 Nov 201159min
TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?
Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the human intestinal commensal and benign laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 into an invasive organism, and the unearthing of century-ol...
19 Okt 20111h 14min
TWiM #17: Debugging endosymbiosis
Vincent, Michael, and Elio focus on endosymbiosis: the rapid spread of Ricekttsia in whitefiles, and a metabolic patchwork in nested symbionts of mealybugs.
5 Okt 20111h 10min
TWiM #16: ICAAC Live
On episode #16 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease at the 51st Intersc...
22 Sep 20111h 29min
TWiM #15: Microbial long distance relationships
On episode #15 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael and Jo review the number of species on Earth, evidence that the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak originated in Nepal, and how gut...
7 Sep 201158min
TWiM #14: Vomocytosis and microbial transistors
On episode #14 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Stanley, Margaret, Michael and Elio review how the fungus Cryptococcus escapes from macrophages, and electrical conductivity in nanowires forme...
24 Aug 20111h 7min
TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
On episode #13 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Stanley, Jo, Michael and Elio discuss how colonic microbial ecology and risk for colitis are regulated by an inflammasome, and amelioration of ...
10 Aug 201157min
