Podcast Episodes

Back To School for TWiM

Episode 324

From ASMCUE 2024, the conference on undergraduate education, TWiM speaks with Becky, Melanie, and Katriana about their careers and how they use TWiM in undergraduate microbiology education.

Hosts: Mi…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Better Concrete With Microbes

Episode 323

TWiM describes how to make concrete more 'green' by using microbes, and bacterial bioluminescence as an important regulator of multitrophic interactions in the soil.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michae…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Photohydrolysis Decontamination Reduces Healthcare-associated Infections

Episode 322

TWiM explains how ticagrelor alters the membrane of S. aureus and enhances the activity of vancomycin and daptomycin without eliciting cross-resistance, and the development of a novel continuous disi…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

The Microbes in Your Food

Episode 321

TWiM focuses on recent foodborne outbreaks of bacterial infections, and how nanopore sequencing technology can be used to identify pathogenic microbes and antimicrobial resistance genes in food produ…

Published on 1 year ago

Rockstars of USAMRIID

Episode 320

TWiM travels to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases to learn how research conducted at USAMRIID leads to vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and training programs that protect b…

Published on 1 year ago

The Dark Side of the Rumen

Episode 319

TWiM explains a project to engineer the cow microbiome to reduce emissions of methane, and the finding of antibiotic resistance genes in the genomes of giant viruses.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Micha…

Published on 1 year ago

How To Pick a Winner

Episode 318

TWiM explains how bacterial community structure can be used to predict athletic performance in racehorses, and the idea that a tiny fraction of all species forms most of Nature.

Hosts: Vincent Racani…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Bat White-nose Syndrome

Episode 317

TWiM explains unique modifications in the energy conservation pathways linked to methanogenesis in an Archaeon, and mechanisms of white nose fungal invasion of cells from the Little Brown Bat.

Hosts:…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome

Episode 316

TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacte…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

How Pseudomonas Became A Global Pathogen

Episode 315

TWiM explores evolution and host adaptation of Pseudomonas infections of plants, and the impact of COVID-19 on ESBL-producing E. coli on urinary tract and blood infections.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago