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This Week in Microbiology

Vincent Racaniello

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.

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01:12:36

TWiM #54: Dueling injectors and the microgenderome

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/04/10

Vincent, Elio, and Michael review how sex-dependent differences in the mouse microbiome regulate type I diabetes, and counterattack among bacteria.

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01:00:38

TWiM #53: Live in Manchester

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/03/29

Vincent, Laura, David, Kalin and Paul get together at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Manchester, England to talk about next-generation approaches to antimicrobial therapy.

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01:00:27

TWiM #52: Clinical microbiology with Ellen Jo Baron

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/03/11

Vincent and Michael meet up with Ellen Jo Baron to talk about working in a clinical microbiology laboratory.

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01:18:41

TWiM #51: Cave science with Hazel Barton

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/02/27

Vincent, Michael, and Elio meet up with Hazel Barton to talk about cave microbiology.

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01:03:59

TWiM #50: These things aren’t even bacteria!

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/01/30

Vincent, Michael, and Stanley review the scientific career of Carl Woese.

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01:13:43

TWiM #49: Grape-like Clusters

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/01/16

Vincent, Michael, and Elio discuss the HIV co-receptor CCR5 as a receptor for S. aureus leukotoxin ED, and the vineyard yeast microbiome.

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01:16:18

TWiM #48: It’s all about direction

This Week in Microbiology ·

2013/01/03

Vincent, Michael, and Jo discuss how subtle gender bias of science faculty favors male students, and the relationship of invasive infection and antibody orientation at bacterial surfaces.

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01:10:56

TWiM #47: Resistance on the surface

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/12/19

Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes on metal surfaces, and using bacteriophage to reverse antibiotic resistance.

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01:09:33

TWiM #46: Spore!

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/12/05

Vincent, Michael, and Elio meet up with Jonathan Dworkin to discuss how bacteria form spores and how they return to vegetative growth.

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01:11:53

TWiM #45: Secreted nucleic acids RIG a STING

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/11/21

Vincent, Michael, Elio review innate immune sensing of Listeria secreted bacterial nucleic acids, and how Wolbachia enhances egg production in Drosophila.

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01:06:08

TWiM #44: Phage interruptus

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/10/24

Vincent, Michael, Elio discuss the role of prophage excision in exit of Listeria from the phagosome, and analysis of bacterial communities in saliva.

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01:19:46

TWiM #43: Bacterial caveolae and zapping acne with...

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/10/10

Vincent, Michael, Elio review formation of caveolae in a bacterium, and the limited genetic diversity and broad killing activity of P. acnes bacteriophages.

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01:11:42

TWiM #42: Staphylococcus, a three-star pathogen

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/09/26

Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Joe review highlights of the 15th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ISSSI) in Lyon, France.

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01:43:08

TWiM #41: ICAAC live in San Francisco

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/09/13

Vincent and Michael travel to San Francisco for the 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), where they meet with Bill, John, and Victor to discuss tuberculosis, monitoring infectious disease outbreaks with online data, and outside-the-box approaches to antibacterial therapy.

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01:01:59

TWiM #40: A mecca for microbiology

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/08/29

**MicrobeWorld app users, click the "e" symbol in the bottom right corner of this description to watch a bonus video version of this episode!** Vincent and Stanley meet with Waclaw Szybalski and John Kirby at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the occasion of its designation as a Milestones in Microbiology site. They reminisce about how the well known laboratory has advanced the science and teaching of microbiology, and discuss John’s work on the soil dwelling, predatory myxobacteria. If you don't

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01:15:30

TWiM #39: What Darwin never knew

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/08/15

Vincent, Michael, and Elio reviews chapters from Microbes and Evolution, a collection of short, personal essays by microbiologists.

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01:10:52

TWiM #38: The sound of whooping cough

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/08/02

Vincent, Jo, Michael, and Elio review an outbreak of pertussis in Washington, and how culturing can reveal rare members of the soil biosphere.

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01:17:43

TWiM #37: Microbial Jekyll and Hyde

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/07/18

Vincent, Jo, Michael, and Elio discuss two examples of dynamic microbial symbioses that switch between mutualistic and pathogenic states.

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01:20:24

TWiM #36: Domesticating a pathogen

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/07/04

Vincent, Michael, and Elio explore the origin of Mycoplasma pathogens of ruminants, and share their thoughts on the recent ASM General Meeting.

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01:09:58

TWiM #35: Ohne hauch

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/06/21

Vincent, Michael, and Elio review necrotizing fasciitis, and a link between surface remodeling in gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.

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