Podcast Episodes

Lavender and Catheters

Episode 263

TWiM explains the use of lavender oil to disrupt Listeria biofilms, and how treatment of catheters with liquid silicone reduces associated urinary tr…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Spot on With T4SS Modulators

Episode 262

TWiM welcomes new host Petra, and explains how a small protein helps ensure that E. coli utilizes a preferred carbon source, and a screening strategy…

4 years ago

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Overwhelming Microbial Greatness

Episode 261

Mark returns to TWiM to join in a discussion of soil microbiota as game-changers in restoration of degraded lands, and discovery of a centimeter-long…

4 years ago

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Carnivorous Vulture Bees

Episode 260

In this food-centric TWiM, we reveal the microbiomes of carnivorous vulture bees and of Gala apples from all over the world.

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4 years, 1 month ago

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Sea Sawdust

Episode 259

Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of the frightening global burden of bacterial antibiotic resistance, and a solution to the problem of da…

4 years, 1 month ago

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A Tick's Meal

Episode 258

TWiM explains how bacterial symbionts regulate tick blood feeding activity, and the reasons why antibiotics exist.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Sc…

4 years, 2 months ago

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I have one word for you: plastics

Episode 257

On this episode of TWiM, how phages prevent other phages from invading their hosts without blocking their own reproduction, and plastic-degrading pot…

4 years, 3 months ago

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An mRNA Vaccine Against Ticks

Episode 256

TWiM discusses antigenic variation within dengue virus serotypes, and an mRNA vaccine that induces antibodies against tick proteins and prevents tran…

4 years, 3 months ago

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Fleaing The Plague

Episode 255

TWiM reveals a study showing that positive interactions among bacteria are far more common than previously thought, and how acquisition of a single g…

4 years, 4 months ago

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Episymbionts are good for you

Episode 254

Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of the observation that Gram's stain does not cross the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, and suppression …

4 years, 5 months ago

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