Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Microbiology

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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.

Author

Vincent Racaniello

Episodes

TWiM #9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4 15.06.2011 1:16:35

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.

TWiM # 8: Live in NOLA 01.06.2011 1:26:21

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 benefit from disease, symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and marine invertebrates, and repetitive sequences in bacteria.

TWiM #7: Cycles of life and death, light and dark 18.05.2011 1:04:09

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 cyanobacteria.

TWiM #6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction? 04.05.2011 1:22:11

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.

TWiM #5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles 20.04.2011 1:15:51

Vincent, Ron, Cliff, and Michael discuss the genome sequence of a mercury-methylating bacterium and the antimicrobial effects of nanoparticles.

TWiM #4: Cantaloupes and Salmonella gastroenteritis 06.04.2011 1:14:45

Vincent, Cliff, Margaret, and Michael review foodborne bacterial illness in the context of outbreaks associated with cantaloupes and Lebanon bologna.

TWiM #3: Anthrax, genomics and the FBI inquiry 23.03.2011 1:00:27

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.

TWiM #2: The plague, microbial virulence and the gut microbiome 09.03.2011 1:15:43

Vincent, Cliff, and Michael review a fatal laboratory acquired Yersinia pestis infection, and how gut bacteria control body weight and metabolic activity.

TWiM #1: Neisseria LINEs up 23.02.2011 1:03:23

On episode #1 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology , Vincent, Cliff, Michael, and Stan discuss transfer of DNA from a human host to a bacterial pathogen, and the ability of dry copper to kill bacteria on contact.