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TWiM #144: Did eukaryotes invent anything?
The TWiMers discuss how changes in domestic laundering affect the removal of microorganisms, and assembly of a nucleus-like structure during viral re…
9 years, 2 months ago
TWiM #143: E-scaffolds and receptor transfer
Vincent, Michael, and Michele explain the use of an electrochemical gradient to eliminate bacterial biofilms, and how phage susceptibility can be tra…
9 years, 2 months ago
TWiM #142: A membrane-thickness caliper
Vincent, Elio and Michele wind up a year of microbial podcasts with a story about the lack of resistance to a crop antifungal compound, and how a bac…
9 years, 3 months ago
TWiM #141: Nutritional immunity and polymicrobial infections
Jennifer joins Vincent, Elio, and Michael to talk about the work of her laboratory on how a respiratory virus enhances bacterial growth by dysregulat…
9 years, 3 months ago
TWiM 140: Small town, big science
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Marie Antonioli, Bryan Hansen, Forrest Jessop, Kyle Shifflet and Jim Striebel
At the Hamilton, Montana Performing Ar…
9 years, 4 months ago
TWiM #139: Frackibacter and sticky fingers
The TWiM team discusses microbial DNA found on ATM machines in New York City, and how hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, alters microbial ecosystems …
9 years, 4 months ago
TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum
The TWiM team brings you a bacterium from a Colorado field site that grows on uranium, and copper resistance in the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter b…
9 years, 5 months ago
TWiM #137: The battle for oxygen
Highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aero…
9 years, 5 months ago
TWiM #136: Diderms and then monoderms
Them TWiM team discusses the importance of neutrophils in microbial infections, and evidence that ancient bacteria had two cell walls.
Hosts: Vincent…
9 years, 6 months ago
TWiM #135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends
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