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TWiM #114: Milestones in Blue
Vincent, Elio, and Michele meet with Harry Mobley, Mary O’Riordan, and Vince Young at the University of Michigan, during the designation of the Depar…
10 years, 5 months ago
TWiM #113: Waves of Change
Vincent meets up with Romney and Duncan at the 79th annual meeting of the Southern California branch of the American Society for Microbiology, where …
10 years, 5 months ago
TWiM #112: Mushroom pickers and mushroom kickers
The TWiM team wonders why definitions in biology often change, and discuss how the small molecule terrein is important for the growth of a soil fungu…
10 years, 6 months ago
TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.
The TWiMitos discuss the reconstruction of a 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy, an…
10 years, 7 months ago
TWiM #110: Exploring unseen life with unpronounceable words
The TWiM team focuses on the gut microbiome, from a single member, Akkermansia muciniphila, to the effect of antibiotics on its composition and colon…
10 years, 7 months ago
TWiM #109: Precision killing
The TWiM cohort discusses the use of antimicrobial peptides to target specific bacteria in the microbiome, and how the intracellular bacterium Wolbac…
10 years, 8 months ago
TWiM #108: Vaccine in the time of cholera
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.
The professors of TWiM discuss a University of Wisconsin plan for r…
10 years, 8 months ago
TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt.
Vincent and Michael discuss the highly diverse microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians, and how the comp…
10 years, 9 months ago
TWiM #106: Lawn mower disease
Vincent and Michael speak with Katy Bosio about her research on pathogenesis, immunity, and vaccines against Franciscella tularensis, the causative…
10 years, 9 months ago
TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs
The TWiM team reviews the microbiological safety of herbs in the United Kingdom, and how a peptide from the milkweek bug binds the ribosome and inhib…
10 years, 10 months ago