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Episode 233
The TWiM team reviews the movie Jezebel, played against the background of the yellow fever epidemic of 1853 in New Orleans, and prokaryotic viperins,…
5 years, 3 months ago
Microbial nanowires
Episode 232
TWiM explores the use of a bacterial protein to make highly conductive microbial nanowires, and how modulin proteins seed the formation of amyloid, a…
5 years, 3 months ago
It's a microbe-eat-microbe world
Episode 231
Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of a predatory bacterium appropriately named Vampirococcus lugosii, and Elio reveals how bacteria can be…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ancient bacterial DNA
Episode 230
In this episode of TWiM, control of Campylobacter in raw chicken by zinc oxide nanoparticles in packaging material, and Salmonella enterica genomes f…
5 years, 4 months ago
Dirt is not simple
Episode 229
In this episode of TWiM, the hidden biochemical diversity in soil-dwelling Actinobacteria that could lead to a second Golden Era of antibiotic discov…
5 years, 5 months ago
Black in Microbiology with Ninecia Scott and Chelsey Spriggs
Episode 228
Ninecia and Chelsey, two of the founders of Black in Microbiology, join TWiM to discuss the goals of the organization, then we reveal survival of Dei…
5 years, 5 months ago
The light and dark sides of the fungal world
Episode 227
TWiM presents an episode for mycophiles: how bacteria disarm mushroom pathogens, and the role of the CARD9 protein in protective immunity against pul…
5 years, 5 months ago
Two microbes you might not know
Episode 226
TWiM presents two unusual microorganisms, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, heard by Elio in an episode of Doc Martin, and Roseomonas mucosa, which is be…
5 years, 6 months ago
Lag phase is no slouch
Episode 225
The TWiM team explores how delivery of an enzyme into competitor cells leads to synthesis of (p)ppApp, depletion of ATP, deregulation of metabolic pa…
5 years, 7 months ago
One hundred million year old bacteria
Episode 224
The TWiM team reveals the genetic mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls from sequencing of DNA, and 100 million year old living bacteria recovered from m…
5 years, 7 months ago