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 Juni 20111h 8min
TWiM #9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4
Vincent, Michael, and Cliff review the outbreak of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in Germany caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4.
15 Juni 20111h 16min
TWiM # 8: Live in NOLA
Vincent, Michael, and Stanley recorded TWiM #8 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, with guests Andreas Baümler, Nicole Dubilier, and Paul Rainey. They spoke about how pathogens benefi...
1 Juni 20111h 26min
TWiM #7: Cycles of life and death, light and dark
Vincent, Cliff, Elio, Margaret, and Michael discuss programmed cell death in E. coli, and the daily synthesis and degradation of enzymes needed for photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteri...
18 Maj 20111h 4min
TWiM #6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction?
Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Elio review the use of bacteriophages to manage infections, and the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in the bacteriophage from urban sewage and river water.
4 Maj 20111h 22min
TWiM #5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles
Vincent, Ron, Cliff, and Michael discuss the genome sequence of a mercury-methylating bacterium and the antimicrobial effects of nanoparticles.
20 Apr 20111h 15min
TWiM #4: Cantaloupes and Salmonella gastroenteritis
Vincent, Cliff, Margaret, and Michael review foodborne bacterial illness in the context of outbreaks associated with cantaloupes and Lebanon bologna.
6 Apr 20111h 14min
TWiM #3: Anthrax, genomics and the FBI inquiry
Vincent, Jo, Cliff, and Ron explore the genome analysis done in support of the Amerithrax investigation, and an insecticidal enterotoxin-deficient mutant of Bacillus thurigiensis.
23 Mars 20111h
