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
TWiM #12: Photothermal nanoblades and genome engineering
Vincent, Margaret, Michael and Elio review the use of photothermal nanoblades to dissect the Burkholderia intracellular life cycle, and manipulation of chromosomes in vivo for genome-wide codon replac...
27 Jul 20111h 15min
TWiM #11: Chickens, antibiotics, and asthma
Vincent, Margaret, Michael and Elio review the presence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase genes in chicken meat and in humans, and a beneficial effect of Helicobacter pylori colonization on the deve...
13 Jul 20111h 12min
TWiM #10: A symbiotic cloaking device
On episode #10 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Margaret, Elio, Michael and Dickson discuss the symbiosis between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and the luminous, gram-negative bacterium...
29 Jun 20111h 8min
