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TWiM #34: Doing the DISCO with Emiliania
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter
Vincent, Michael, and Elio discuss changing populations of Emiliania huxleyi and thei…
13 years, 10 months ago
TWiM #33: Tuning the immune organ
Vincent, Michael, and Ivo review the requirement for segmented, filamentous bacteria for the induction of a specific type of helper T cell in the gut…
13 years, 10 months ago
TWiM #32: Not the shadow biosphere
Rosie Redfield talks about her evidence that a bacterium cannot grow on arsenic instead of phosphorus.
13 years, 11 months ago
TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jo Handelsman, and Michael Schmidt
Vincent, Jo, and Michael discuss an archetypal protein transport system in bacterial ou…
13 years, 11 months ago
TWiM #30: Unraveling melioidosis and insulin resistance
On episode #30 of the podcast, Vincent, Elio, and Michael review how a toxin from Burkholderia pseudomallei inhibits protein synthesis, and the role …
14 years ago
TWiM #29: Death and an iron-loaded spike
On episode #29 of the podcast, Vincent and Stanley review how a phage pierces the cell membrane with an iron-loaded spike, and two programmed cell de…
14 years ago
TWiM #28: Not unorganized bags of enzymes
Vincent, Michael, and Elio review how competition within a host drives virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the expanding universe of the bacte…
14 years, 1 month ago
TWiM #27: An inflamed gut is good for Salmonella
Vincent, Elio, and Michael review how inflammation allows Salmonella to compete with fermenting gut microbes, and a riboswitch in bacterial and Arche…
14 years, 1 month ago
TWiM #26: Suum cuique
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss the finding of Sutterella species in the gut of autistic children, and methods for cultivating oral bacteria.
14 years, 2 months ago
TWiM #25: Magnetotactic bacteria and totally drug resistant TB
On episode #25 of the podcast, Vincent, Elio, and Michael review bacteria that use the earth’s magnetic field for navigation, and identification of t…
14 years, 2 months ago