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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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01:03:59

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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01:08:50

TWiM #34: Doing the DISCO with Emiliania

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/06/04

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter Vincent, Michael, and Elio discuss changing populations of Emiliania huxleyi and their viruses in the North and Black Seas. Right click to download TWiM #34 (50 MB .mp3, 69 minutes). Links for this episode: The protist wonderland (Microbe) Emiliania huxleyi home page DISCO in the North Sea (FEMS Microbiol Ecol) 7000 years of Emiliania huxleyi in the Black Sea (Science) Cheshire cat escape by Emiliania huxleyi (PNAS) Letters read on

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01:08:26

TWiM #33: Tuning the immune organ

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/05/16

Vincent, Michael, and Ivo review the requirement for segmented, filamentous bacteria for the induction of a specific type of helper T cell in the gut. Links for this episode: Induction of Th17 cells by segmented filamentous bacteria (Cell) Segmented filamentous bacteria take the stage (Nature) Genome of segmented filamentous bacteria reveals auxotrophy (Cell) Segmented filamentous bacteria and diabetes protection (PNAS) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file)

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01:06:55

TWiM #32: Not the shadow biosphere

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/05/02

Rosie Redfield talks about her evidence that a bacterium cannot grow on arsenic instead of phosphorus.

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01:15:09

TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine

This Week in Microbiology ·

2012/04/18

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jo Handelsman, and Michael Schmidt Vincent, Jo, and Michael discuss an archetypal protein transport system in bacterial outer membranes, and evidence that gut microbial enterotypes might not fall into defined groups. Links for this episode: Discovery of a TAM, a new bacterial protein transport system (Nat Struct Mol Biol) Commentary on TAM discovery Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome (Nature) Gut enterotypes might be less clear-cut (Ed Yong) Letters read on TWiM

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