TWiM #114: Milestones in Blue
Vincent, Elio, and Michele meet with Harry Mobley, Mary O’Riordan, and Vince Young at the University of Michigan, during the designation of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology as a Milestone...
6 Nov 20151h 11min
TWiM #113: Waves of Change
Vincent meets up with Romney and Duncan at the 79th annual meeting of the Southern California branch of the American Society for Microbiology, where they talk about emerging technologies for antimicro...
22 Okt 201553min
TWiM #112: Mushroom pickers and mushroom kickers
The TWiM team wonders why definitions in biology often change, and discuss how the small molecule terrein is important for the growth of a soil fungus. Image: Lesion formation on banana surfaces infec...
26 Sep 20151h
TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter. The TWiMitos discuss the reconstruction of a 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy, and using gallium as an antimicrobial in the battle f...
10 Sep 201559min
TWiM #110: Exploring unseen life with unpronounceable words
The TWiM team focuses on the gut microbiome, from a single member, Akkermansia muciniphila, to the effect of antibiotics on its composition and colonization resistance against C. difficile. Subscribe ...
19 Aug 20151h 11min
TWiM #109: Precision killing
The TWiM cohort discusses the use of antimicrobial peptides to target specific bacteria in the microbiome, and how the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia selectively kills male hosts. Links for this...
6 Aug 20151h 8min
TWiM #108: Vaccine in the time of cholera
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson. The professors of TWiM discuss a University of Wisconsin plan for rescuing biomedical research in the US, and results...
23 Jul 20151h 12min
TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt. Vincent and Michael discuss the highly diverse microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians, and how the composition of human urine plays a role in the battle f...
9 Jul 20151h 31min
