Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCell growth and cell size with Petra Levin
Episode 253
Petra Levin joins TWiM to tell three stories from her laboratory: how starvation induces shrinkage of the bacterial cytoplasm; plasticity of E. coli …
4 years, 5 months ago
Electrifying microbial fuel cells
Episode 252
On this episode of TWiM, using colicins to ferry DNA into cells through an iron transporter, and construction of highly efficient microbial fuel cell…
4 years, 6 months ago
Biofilms, Coronaviruses, and a Shigella Vaccine
Episode 251
TWiM explores the role of biofilms in infection by coronaviruses, and development of a Shigella vaccine using outer membrane vesicles derived from Sa…
4 years, 6 months ago
E-scaffolds and paper stickers
Episode 250
On this episode, an electrochemical scaffold that delivers safe doses of hypochlorous acid to treat wound infections in humans, and a method for samp…
4 years, 7 months ago
Phage-pathogen and toxin-antitoxin conflicts
Episode 249
TWiM reveals how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern phage-pathogen conflicts, and the intracellular localization of toxin-antit…
4 years, 7 months ago
Borgs Are Real
Episode 248
Mark Martin returns to TWiM to discuss ways to increase diversity in our field, and the discovery of Borgs, giant extrachromosomal elements with the …
4 years, 7 months ago
Therapy with paleofeces and phages
Episode 247
TWiM explores whether 'rewilding' is a way to get back our missing gut microbes, and failure of bacteriophage therapy due to the production of neutra…
4 years, 8 months ago
Intracellular niche and passage
Episode 246
The TWiM folk explore disruption of a Burkholderia intracellular niche by a cell death program, and an increase in Brucella infectiousness after intr…
4 years, 8 months ago
Bacteria that protect bees from fungi
Episode 245
In this episode, how polysaccharides keep cyanobacteria afloat in the oceans so that they can carry out photosynthesis, and a symbiotic bacterium tha…
4 years, 9 months ago
Chewing for chicha
Episode 244
Foodie TWiM reveals that bacteria in human saliva are major components of Ecuadorian indigenous beers, and an unusual E. coli that produces atypical …
4 years, 9 months ago