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Publisher |: American Society for Microbiology

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Health,; Science & Medicine

Categories Via RSS |: Life Sciences,; Science

This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.

People |: Vincent Racaniello (@profvrr)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: NY
Premiere Date |: 2011-02-23
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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286 Available Episodes (286 Total) / Average duration: 01:05:37

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286 Available Episodes (286 Total)Average duration: 01:05:37

Apr 23, 2023

01:11:16

TWiM reveals a new type of satellite virus that requires only phage tails for producing infectious virus particles, and that highly virulent plague bacteria differs from its innocuous enteric predecessor by its resistance to lysis by human complement.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Android, RSS, or by email.

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Links for this episode

Viruses that steal bacteriophage tails (Cell Host Microbe)
Y. pestis not susceptible to human complement (Appl Environ Micro)
How Y. pestis got its pathogenic groove (Appl Environ Micro)
Risks of another pandemic (TedEd)
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Apr 08, 2023

00:55:09

TWiM reveals housefly dispersal of antimicrobial resistant bacteria, and a reproductive organ in squid linked to symbiotic bacteria.

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Links for this episode

journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.16352">Housefly dispersal of antimicrobial resistant E. coli (Appl Micro Int)
Antibiotic use in farming (Nature)
Antimicrobial use in food producing animals (PLoS Glob Pub Health)
Reproductive organ linked to symbiotic bacteria (mBio)
Skype a Scientist
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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Mar 24, 2023

00:58:07

TWiM reveals quorum-sensing systems that regulate intestinal inflammation and permeability caused by P. aeruginosa, and how plasmids manipulate bacterial behavior through translational regulatory crosstalk.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin.

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Links for this episode

Quorum-sensing in the intestine (mBio)
Block quorum sensing, block biofilm (Antimicrob Agents Chemother)
Plasmids manipulate bacterial behavior (PLoS Biol)
crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed">Regulatory genes associated with integrative conjugative elements (J Bact)
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

Mar 10, 2023

00:54:03

TWiM presents a protocol for evolving caffeine-tolerant yeast by high school students in the home, and how predator-prey dynamics change when multiple bacteria grow together in biofilms.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin. Guest: Mark O. Martin Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Android, RSS, or by email.

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Links for this episode

Caffeine-tolerant yeast selected at home (microPub Biology)
yEvo Lab
Vision and change in undergraduate biology (NAS)
crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed">CURE in a box (JMBE)
EvolvingStem
outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-019-0103-4">EvolvingStem: Evolution-in-action curriculum (BMC)
Spatial ecology of predation (PNAS)
Predatory bacteria: From curiosity to curative (Trends Micro)
Combating antimicrobial resistance with predatory Bdellovibrio (YouTube)
Bdellovibrio attacking E.coli (YouTube)
From one, many (YouTube)
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Feb 17, 2023

00:59:57

TWiM explains the synthesis in bacteria of new energy-dense biofuels that can replace rocket and jet fuels, and the use of nanopore sequencing to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients with serious infections.

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Links for this episode:

Biosynthesis of high energy biofuels (Joule)
Polyketide synthases in bacteria (PNAS)
Sequencing for diagnosis of serious infections (mBio)
Nanopore sequencing video (YouTube)
Emerging human pathogen Kodamaea ohmeri (Front. Micro)

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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Jan 28, 2023

00:58:49

TWiM explains how magnesium modulates cell division frequency of a soil bacillus, and killing of fungi by Acinetobacter baumannii via a Type VI DNase Effector.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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Links for this episode:

•Magnesium modulates cell division frequency (J Bacteriol) •A. baumannii kills fungi (mBio)

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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Jan 13, 2023

01:01:47

TWiM describes successful phage therapy against a mycobacterial lung infection, and how encapsulation of the cell wall protects S. pneumoniae from its major peptidoglycan hydrolase and host defenses.

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Links for this episode:

Phage therapy against M. abscessus lung infection (Cell)
Encapsulation of the septal cell wall protects S. pneumoniae from host defenses (PLoS Path)
Letters read on TWiM 279

Music used on TWiM is by Ronald Jenkees.

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Dec 29, 2022

00:59:29

TWiM explores the relationship between the gut microbiome and depressive symptoms, and how purine nucleotides act as adjuvants to antibiotics.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

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Links for this episode:

Gut microbiota and depressive symptoms one and two (Nat Commun )
12-microbiome-composition-depression.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io&utm_campaign=newsletter"> Microbiome influences depression (Phys.org)
Gut bacteria and 12-bacteria-gut-spur-depression.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io&utm_campaign=newsletter">depression (Med Press)
Mice behaving badly (TWiM 131)
Gut microbiome in ASD (Front Cell Inf Micro)
Transferring the blues (J Psych Res)
Nucleotides as adjuvants to antibiotics (mBio)

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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Dec 08, 2022

00:58:35

On this episode of TWiM, we reveal widespread stop-codon recoding in bacteriophages that may regulate translation of lytic genes, and how Staphylococcus aureus inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode

Stop codon recoding in bacteriophages (Nat Micro)
How S. aureus inhibits P. aeruginosa growth (J Bact)
S. aureus small colony variants (Front Cell Infect Micro)
Ken Timmis retires as journal editor (YouTube)
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission

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Nov 24, 2022

01:06:33

TWiM presents evidence that over half of human pathogenic diseases are impacted by climate change, and considers how a novel prokaryote discovered next to an underground stream illuminates the pathway to multicellularity.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Mark Martin.

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Links for this episode

Climate change and pathogenic diseases (Nat Climate Change)
mora.github.io/Diseases/">Impacts of climate change on human diseases (MoraLAB)
Cave bacteria illuminate pathway to multicellularity (eLife)
Commentary on novel cave bacteria (eLife)
landscapes.htm">Karst landscapes (National Park Service)
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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Apr 23 | 01:11:16

285: How Plague Got Deadly

Apr 08 | 00:55:09

284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid

Mar 24 | 00:58:07

283: Quorum Sensing In The Gut

Mar 10 | 00:54:03

282: At-home evolution with yeast

Feb 17 | 00:59:57

281: Microbes Making Jet Fuel

Jan 28 | 00:58:49

280: They Forget To Divide

Jan 13 | 01:01:47

279: A Road Map For Successful Phage Therapy

Dec 29 | 00:59:29

278: Bacteria Sing The Blues

Dec 08 | 00:58:35

277: To Stop or Not To Stop

Nov 24 | 01:06:33

276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream

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