This Week in Microbiology
- Épisodes
- 368
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- toutes les deux semaines
- Dernier épisode
- 7 Nov 2026
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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.
Épisodes 368
367: Milestones at Michigan State
TWiM travels to Michigan State University to celebrate their designation as an ASM Milestones in Microbiology site, and speaks with Vic DiRita, Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, Rich Lenski, and Jim Tiedje about their …
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TWiM travels to Michigan State University to celebrate their designation as an ASM Milestones in Microbiology site, and speaks with Vic DiRita, Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, Rich Lenski, and Jim Tiedje about their careers and their research.
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Links for this episode:
MSU designated a Milestones site (ASM)
125 years of impact (MSU)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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366: Our Vanishing Ancient Gut Microbes
TWiM explains a bacterial antiviral defense system that uses a noncoding RNA template to build tandem-repeat DNA through a mechanism that parallels how eukaryotic telomerase extends telomeres, and genome …
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TWiM explains a bacterial antiviral defense system that uses a noncoding RNA template to build tandem-repeat DNA through a mechanism that parallels how eukaryotic telomerase extends telomeres, and genome sequencing of the Tsimane of Bolivia and the Hadza of Tanzania which reveals over a thousand gut bacterial species shared between the two populations, many now vanishing from industrialized humans, suggesting they co-migrated with our ancestors out of Africa and into the Americas.
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Links for this episode:
Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria (Nature)
Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans (Nature)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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365: Bacteria Inside a Fungus Sabotage Plant Defenses
TWiM explains how bacterial endosymbionts enhance fungal virulence by disrupting the protective rhizobiome, and the development of rationally engineered Salmonella typhimurium strains with enhanced safety and …
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TWiM explains how bacterial endosymbionts enhance fungal virulence by disrupting the protective rhizobiome, and the development of rationally engineered Salmonella typhimurium strains with enhanced safety and antitumor efficacy.
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Links for this episode:
Engineering S. typhimurium to kill tumors (mBio)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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364: DNA Damage as Defense Against Bee Pathogens
TWiM wonders why archaea are not pathogenic, and reveals how a colibactin produced by a honeybee gut symbiont defends against pathogens. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Why are archaea not …
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TWiM wonders why archaea are not pathogenic, and reveals how a colibactin produced by a honeybee gut symbiont defends against pathogens.
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Links for this episode:
Why are archaea not pathogenic? (mBio)
Archaeal viruses (Archaea)
Colibactin made in honeybee gut (Nat Micro)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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363: Why Vegetables Are Good for Your Heart
TWiM explains the finding that Bunsen burners do not decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles, and how gut microbiota generate dinitrosyl iron complexes with cardiometabolic benefits. Hosts: Vincent …
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TWiM explains the finding that Bunsen burners do not decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles, and how gut microbiota generate dinitrosyl iron complexes with cardiometabolic benefits.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt
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Links for this episode:
Bunsen burners don't do what you thought they did (Micro Spectrum)
Gut bacteria and cardiometabolic health (Cell)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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362: When Gut Bacteria Share Chromosomes
TWiM explains how movement of DNA among gut bacteria drive large-scale genome mosaicism, and validation of a method for detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis in outbreak-linked fresh produce. Hosts: Vincent …
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TWiM explains how movement of DNA among gut bacteria drive large-scale genome mosaicism, and validation of a method for detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis in outbreak-linked fresh produce.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin
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Links for this episode:
Natural DNA transformation in the gut (ISME J)
The transformation factor (J Exp Med)
Validating cyclospora assay (J Food Prot)
Cyclosporiasis (CDC)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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361: Bacteria and Colon Cancer Recurrence
TWiM explains the discovery of an avirulent bacterial signature associated with the development of recurrence following colorectal cancer surgery, and phage-derived proteins and conjugates that induce pilus …
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TWiM explains the discovery of an avirulent bacterial signature associated with the development of recurrence following colorectal cancer surgery, and phage-derived proteins and conjugates that induce pilus detachment.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin
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Links for this episode:
Bacterial signature is associated with colon cancer recurrence (Nat Comm)
Phage-derived proteins induce pilus detachment (J Bact)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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360: Nitrogen Fixation Goes Eukaryotic
TWiM explains major implications of the link between plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance, and the discovery of a new organelle, the nitrogen-fixing nitroplast. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael …
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TWiM explains major implications of the link between plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance, and the discovery of a new organelle, the nitrogen-fixing nitroplast.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- Plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance (Appl Envir Micro)
- The great Pacific garbage patch (YouTube)
- Rumen microbiome (Nat Biotech)
- Nitrogen-fixing organelle in marine alga (Science)
- This cell just changed biology (YouTube)
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359: Kin Killing and Metal Hunger
TWiM explains how cannibalism shapes biofilm structure and composition in Bacillus subtilis, and the importance of manganese uptake in uropathogenic E. coli during urinary tract infection. Become a patron of …
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TWiM explains how cannibalism shapes biofilm structure and composition in Bacillus subtilis, and the importance of manganese uptake in uropathogenic E. coli during urinary tract infection.
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Links for this episode:
Cannibalism shapes biofilm structure (mBio)
Manganese and uropathogenic E. coli (mBio)
Regulation of Bacterial MntH Genes (NLM Bookshelf)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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358: Gut Microbes and ALS
TWiM explains the connection between inflammation caused by microbial glycogen in the gut and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and how disruption of cysteine metabolism leads to synthetic lethality and in vivo …
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TWiM explains the connection between inflammation caused by microbial glycogen in the gut and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and how disruption of cysteine metabolism leads to synthetic lethality and in vivo fitness impairment in Acinetobacter baumannii.
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Links for this episode:
Myeloid cell gene prevents inflammatory response to microbial glycogen (Cell Rep)
Cysteine metabolism and fitness impairment in Acinetobacter baumannii (mBio)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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357: Remembering Elio at Tufts
TWiM visits Tufts University School of Medcine and are joined by John Coffin, Michael Malamy, and Verna Manni for a tribute to Elio Schaechter who was chair of Molecular Biology and Microbiology for 23 years …
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TWiM visits Tufts University School of Medcine and are joined by John Coffin, Michael Malamy, and Verna Manni for a tribute to Elio Schaechter who was chair of Molecular Biology and Microbiology for 23 years.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin
Guests: John Coffin, Michael Malamy, and Verna Manni
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Music used on TWiM is by Ronald Jenkees.
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TWiM 356: Nanopore to the bone
TWiM explains how Streptococcus mitis bacteriocins drive contact-dependent lysis of S. pneumoniae facilitating transformation, and microbial dominance in diabetic foot osteomyelitis determined with nanopore …
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TWiM explains how Streptococcus mitis bacteriocins drive contact-dependent lysis of S. pneumoniae facilitating transformation, and microbial dominance in diabetic foot osteomyelitis determined with nanopore sequencing.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
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Links for this episode- Streptococcus mitis bacteriocins drive contact-dependent lysis of S. pneumoniae (mBio)
- Microbial dominance in diabetic foot osteomyelitis determined with nanopore sequencing (J Inf Dis)
- Diabetic foot ulcer review (World J Clin Cases)
- How nanopore sequencing works (YouTube)
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355: Bacteria Complete Your tRNA
TWiM explains how an enhanced domestication method allows for growth of uncultured bacteria, and identification of the oncogene SLC35F2 as is a high-specificity transporter for the micronutrients queuine and …
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TWiM explains how an enhanced domestication method allows for growth of uncultured bacteria, and identification of the oncogene SLC35F2 as is a high-specificity transporter for the micronutrients queuine and queuosine.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson. Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- Domestication method for uncultured bacteria (ISME Comm)
- Transporter for the micronutrients queuine and queuosine (PNAS)
- How diet and microbiome can impact your health (UF blog)
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354: How a Gut Microbe Worsens Heart Disease
TWiM explains a candidate signature of health in the gut microbial community, and how an intestinal bacterium exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele …
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TWiM explains a candidate signature of health in the gut microbial community, and how an intestinal bacterium exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- A candidate signature of health in the gut microbiome (Cell Host Microbe)
- 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome (Nat Biotech)
- A human gut metagenome-assembled genome catalogue spanning 41 countries (Nat Micro)
- A comprehensive ruminant microbial catalog (Gigascience)
- Bacteroides acidifaciens exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury (Cell Host Microbe)
- The Great Ozempic Experiment (NY Times, paywall)
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353: Microbial Metabolism of Food Allergens
TWiM explains how to use microbes to enhance maize yield and reduce corn rootworm damage, and how the human microbiota modulates IgE-mediated reactions to foods through allergen metabolism. Hosts: Michael …
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TWiM explains how to use microbes to enhance maize yield and reduce corn rootworm damage, and how the human microbiota modulates IgE-mediated reactions to foods through allergen metabolism.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, and Michele Swanson.
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- Harnessing Microbes for Crop Production (Phytobiome J)
- Microbes take on corn rootworm (Science)
- Microbial metabolism of food allergens (Cell Host Microbe)
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352: Microbial Gut Biosensors
TWiM reveals the archaeal roots of eukaryotic life, and a building a gut malabsorption biosensor with bacteria. Become a patron of TWiM. Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used …
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TWiM reveals the archaeal roots of eukaryotic life, and a building a gut malabsorption biosensor with bacteria.
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life (PNAS)
- Building a malabsorption biosensor (Cell)
- Engineering gut biosensors with microbes (Nature)
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351: Resistance Reboot
TWiM discusses the use of bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination, and a conjugal gene drive-like system that efficiently suppresses …
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TWiM discusses the use of bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination, and a conjugal gene drive-like system that efficiently suppresses antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
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Links for this episode:
Bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for food (Sci Adv)
Gene drive to suppress antibiotic resistance (npj antimicrob and resistance)
CRISPR gene drives (Syntego)
Bier laboratory
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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350: TWiM Goes to College
Nancy and Maggie join TWiM to share how and why they created a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom exercises that support teaching across key microbiology and molecular …
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Nancy and Maggie join TWiM to share how and why they created a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom exercises that support teaching across key microbiology and molecular biology topics.
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Links for this episode:
Podcast annotation and resources in microbiology (Iowa State U)
Curriculum guidelines for undergraduate microbiology (ASM)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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349: Punctured to Death by Spikes
TWiM explains how mechano-bactericidal surfaces made from diverse materials and patterned with spikes kill bacteria on contact, and virus-host evolution is reshaped by microgravity aboard the International …
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TWiM explains how mechano-bactericidal surfaces made from diverse materials and patterned with spikes kill bacteria on contact, and virus-host evolution is reshaped by microgravity aboard the International Space Station.
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Links for this episode:
Mechano-Bactericidal Surfaces (Adv Sci)
Piercing pathogens (ASM)
Natural bactericidal surfaces (Small)
Virus-host evolution in microgravity (PLoS Biol)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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348: The Bark Side of the Microbiome
TWiM explains the finding that owning a dog during adolescence alters the microbiota and improves mental health, and the molecular basis for multidrug efflux by an anaerobic-associated …
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TWiM explains the finding that owning a dog during adolescence alters the microbiota and improves mental health, and the molecular basis for multidrug efflux by an anaerobic-associated resistance-nodulation-cell division transporter.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.
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Links for this episode- Dog ownership and the microbiome during adolescence (iScience)
- Molecular basis for multidrug efflux (Nat Comm)
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347: At Wound's Edge
TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host microenvironment, and short chain fatty acids produced by commensal …
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TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host microenvironment, and short chain fatty acids produced by commensal microbiota reduces its competitive fitness.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode:
Niche-specific fitness of S. aureus at the wound edge (Nat Comm)
Commensal derived short chain fatty acids attenuate S. aureus (mBio)
Ditch the term pathogen (Nature)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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346: Metabolism and Porin Permeability
TWiM explains how competition for nutrients anticipates and potentially mitigate drug side effects on the gut microbiota, and metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance. Hosts …
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TWiM explains how competition for nutrients anticipates and potentially mitigate drug side effects on the gut microbiota, and metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt and Petra Levin
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode:
Nutrient competition predicts drug effects on microbiota (Cell)
Metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance in E coli (Nat Micro)
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345: Faster Than Rocks!
TWiM explains a biological mechanism that links sulfur and iron cycling in anoxic environments, and "swashing," a form of surface movement in which bacteria migrate without active propulsion. Hosts: Michael …
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TWiM explains a biological mechanism that links sulfur and iron cycling in anoxic environments, and "swashing," a form of surface movement in which bacteria migrate without active propulsion.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode- Sulfur and iron cycling in anoxic environments (Nature)
- Bacterial surface migration by swashing (J Bacteriol)
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344: Ant Yogurt and Fine Chocolate
TWiM reveals the bacteria, acids, and enzymes behind yogurt made with ants, and a defined set of microbes that reproduces attributes of fine flavor chocolate fermentation Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael …
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TWiM reveals the bacteria, acids, and enzymes behind yogurt made with ants, and a defined set of microbes that reproduces attributes of fine flavor chocolate fermentation
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode:
Making yogurt with ants (iScience)
How to make classic tuiles (MasterClass)
Defined microbes for chocolate (Nat Micro)
Microbial chocolatiers of fine flavour (Nat Micro)
Blind taste every chocolate bar (YouTube)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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343: Nucleotides to the Defense
TWiM explores two different ways that bacteria defend against phages through the synthesis of cyclic nucleotides. Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Mark O. Martin Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Decoy …
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TWiM explores two different ways that bacteria defend against phages through the synthesis of cyclic nucleotides.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode:
Decoy cyclic nucleotides in phage defense (Nature)
CRISPR defense with nucleotides (Nature)
A decoy defence molecule to set a trap for viruses (Nature)
Cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signaling system immunity (Curr Opin Immunol)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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342: The Microbiome, Pancreatic Cancer, and Sleep Quality
TWiM explains studies that show that the oral bacterial and fungal microbiome are risk factors for pancreatic cancer, and the gut microbiome and pyruvate metabolism of older adults are a link between sleep …
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TWiM explains studies that show that the oral bacterial and fungal microbiome are risk factors for pancreatic cancer, and the gut microbiome and pyruvate metabolism of older adults are a link between sleep quality and frailty.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- Oral microbiome and pancreatic cancer risk (JAMA Oncol)
- 2025 Cancer Facts & Figures (ACS)
- Periodontal Disease: The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown (Front Cell Infect Micro)
- Socransky's disease complexes (Microorg)
- Microbiome, pyruvate metabolism, sleep quality, and frailty (Cell Rep)
- Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (pdf)
- How to score the sleep quality index (pdf)
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341: Sea Star Wasting Disease
TWiM reveals a Vibrio as the causative agent of sea star wasting disease, and using microcolony-seq to uncover phenotypic inheritance from single cells. Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson Guest: Mark O …
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TWiM reveals a Vibrio as the causative agent of sea star wasting disease, and using microcolony-seq to uncover phenotypic inheritance from single cells.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode:
Agent of sea star wasting disease (Nat Ecol Evol)
Sea star wasting mystery solved (Nat Ecol Evol)
Phenotypic inheritance from single cells (Cell)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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340: Microbes in Trees and Plants
TWiM explores the varied and distinct microbiome of trees, and an array of biopesticidal metabolites against mosquito larvae isolated from a Mediterranean island. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this …
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TWiM explores the varied and distinct microbiome of trees, and an array of biopesticidal metabolites against mosquito larvae isolated from a Mediterranean island.
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Links for this episode:
Microbiome of trees (Nature)
Biopesticides from a Mediterranean island (Appl Environ Micro)
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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339: Missing the Company of Elio
TWiM pays tribute to Elio Schaechter, former TWiM host, blogger, and microbiologist extraordinaire, then reviews the finding that Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria - a form of …
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TWiM pays tribute to Elio Schaechter, former TWiM host, blogger, and microbiologist extraordinaire, then reviews the finding that Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria - a form of competition.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.
Guest Mark O. Martin.
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Links for this episode- Elio Schaechter (Wikipedia)
- Elio Schaechter Funeral Service (video)
- Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria (PLoS Biol)
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338: Rewriting the Code of Life
TWiM discusses outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Harlem NY, an automated whole genome sequencing platform for bacterial strain typing in clinical microbiology laboratories, building E. coli with a 57-codon …
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TWiM discusses outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Harlem NY, an automated whole genome sequencing platform for bacterial strain typing in clinical microbiology laboratories, building E. coli with a 57-codon genetic code.
Links for this episode
- Legionnaires' disease outbreak in NY (NY Health)
- Automated whole genome sequencing for clinical labs (J Clin Micro)
- Sequencing workflow for outbreaks (J Clin Micro)
- Rewriting code of life (NYTimes)
- E. coli with a 57-codon genetic code (Science)
- E. coli with one stop codon (TWiM 330)
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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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