This Week in Microbiology

Vincent, Elio and Michele wind up a year of microbial podcasts with a story about the lack of resistance to a crop antifungal compound, and how a bacterium uses a molecular caliper to measure membrane thickness. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Mi...

Jennifer joins Vincent, Elio, and Michael to talk about the work of her laboratory on how a respiratory virus enhances bacterial growth by dysregulating nutritional immunity. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt. Guest: Jennifer Bomberger Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld a...

Host:  Vincent Racaniello Guests: Marie Antonioli, Bryan Hansen, Forrest Jessop, Kyle Shifflet and Jim Striebel At the Hamilton, Montana Performing Arts Center, Vincent speaks with three local high school graduates and two high school teachers about how Rocky Mountain Laboratories influenced school science programs and opened up career opportunities.   Subscribe to TWiM (free) on  iTunes ,  Stitch...

The TWiM team discusses microbial DNA found on ATM machines in New York City, and how hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, alters microbial ecosystems deep in the Earth. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Michael Schmidt ,  Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links fo...

The TWiM team brings you a bacterium from a Colorado field site that grows on uranium, and copper resistance in the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Michael Schmidt ,  Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this ep...

Highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aerobic respiration. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt , and Michele Swanson . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for t...

Them TWiM team discusses the importance of neutrophils in microbial infections, and evidence that ancient bacteria had two cell walls. Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt , and Michele Swanson . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this episode Conquering neutroph...

Links for this episode Dysbiosis of microbiome in critical illness (mSphere) Consequences of sewage spill into aquatic environment (App Env Mic) EPA recreational water guidelines (pdf) VRE following sewage spill (Outbreak Radio) FAQ: Human microbiome American gut project British gut project Rob Knight on human microbiome (TED) Rob Knight on TWiM Image credit TWiM 135 Letters This episode is brough...

Design of a synchronously lysing bacterium for delivery of anti-tumor molecules in mice, and hopanoids, the lipids that live forever, brought to you by the four Microbies of TWiM. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt , and Michele Swanson . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app...

Insight into the biology of rhinovirus C from cryo-electron microscopy, and a novel antibiotic from a commensal bacterium that grows in the human nose, from the doctors of TWiM. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this epi...

Vincent, Elio, and Michele present cell division by longitudinal scission in an insect symbiont, and thermally activated charge transport in microbial nanowires. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello ,  Michele Swanson and Elio Schaechter. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this episode Cell divisio...

Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello  and  Michael Schmidt Michael and Vincent present Spotlights, brief reviews of classic papers in the  Journal of Bacteriology , and explain how a single bacterial species can reverse autism-like social deficits in the offspring of obese mice.   Links for this episode Protein secretion  in  E. coli  (J Bacteriol) Plague pathogenesis (J Bacteriol) Reversal of  diet induced...

Filmed live in Boston, MA at Microbe 2016, David S. Schneider and Vanessa Sperandio talk about their work on regulation of bacterial virulence in the gut by bacterial adrenergic sensors, and the physiological mechanisms that make us ill and that help us recover.

The arrival in the US of plasmid-mediated resistance to colistin antibiotics, a last line of defense against many gram-negative bacilli, and a quorum sensing system in a eukaryote are topics of this episode hosted by Vincent, Michael, and Michele. Image: Etest used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of an antibiotic for a particular bacterium. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello ,  Michael Sc...

A eukaryote without a mitochondrion, and using a phage enzyme to eliminate intracellular bacteria are two topics discussed by the TWiMers on this episode. Image (right): An entry in the ASM Agar Art Contest which bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the TWiM hosts. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson , and Michael Schmidt . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher ,...

The TWiM team explores microbes in snowblower vents on the ocean floor, and cleavage of antibody molecules by a Mycoplasma protease. Image (right): Photograph of the 'Subway' snowblower vent on the sea floor at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Visible are white 'snow' in the vent and orange floc on the seafloor. Credit: Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility and the University of Washington H...

The microbiome of hibernating bears, and zebrafish as a model for bacterial sepsis feature in this animal-centric episode of TWiM hosted by Vincent, Michael, and Michele. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Michele Swanson , and Michael Schmidt . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this episode M...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt. A deep sequencing study of commercially available probiotics, and design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome are the topics tackled by Vincent, Michael, and Michele on this episode of TWiM. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app ....

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt. Vincent, Michael, and Michele reveal how a fungal protease blunts the innate immune response and promotes pathogenicity. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this episode Michele on Flint Legionella outbreak (Detroit News) Fu...

Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello ,  Michael Schmidt , and Elio Schaechter. Guest: Harris Wang Harris joins Vincent, Elio, and Michael to describe multiplex automated genome engineering, a method for targeting many modifications in a population of bacterial cells. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , Android , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld a...

Vincent, Michele, and Michael reveal the discovery of a new species of the spirochaete that causes Lyme disease, and fecal microRNAs that shape the gut microbiome. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this episode Identification of a novel Borrelia species causing Lyme disease (Lancet Inf...

Host: Vincent Racaniello Special guests: Rebekah Kading and Wyndham Lathem From the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting, Vincent speaks with Rebekah and Wyndham about their work on Rift Valley Fever virus and other vector-borne pathogens, and the evolution and pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , Android , RSS , or...

Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello and Elio Schaechter. Vincent and Elio marvel in the finding that a phage tail-like structure from a marine bacterium stimulates tubeworm metamorphosis, and reveal Ophidiomyces as a cause of snake fungal disease. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , Android , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this...

Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello ,  Michael Schmidt , and Elio Schaechter. The microbophiles investigate the ratio of bacterial to human cells in our bodies, and how placing solar panels on a bacterium enables it to carry out photosynthesis. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , Android , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this ep...

Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello , Elio Schaechter  and  Michele Swanson On the last episode for 2015, Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how soil amoeba hunt nematodes in packs, and the role of mushrooms as rainmakers. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes , Stitcher , Android , RSS , or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app . Links for this episode  Pack hunting by...