Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBetter 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 interacti…
1 year, 3 months 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-resistan…
1 year, 4 months 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 microbe…
1 year, 5 months 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,…
1 year, 5 months 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 …
1 year, 5 months 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 s…
1 year, 6 months 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 i…
1 year, 6 months 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 prot…
1 year, 7 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 trac…
1 year, 8 months ago
Microbes Sculpt Our Planet and Manage Inflammation
Episode 314
TWiM explores the deep-dwelling microbes that sculpt our planet, and the use of microbes in bioelectronics to manage inflammation.
Hosts: Vincent Rac…
1 year, 8 months ago