Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCould Fungal Pathogens Outsmart US?
Episode 313
From ASM Microbe in Atlanta, Georgia, Arturo joins TWiM to reveal the threats that fungi pose to human health, including the notorious Candida auris …
1 year, 8 months ago
Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing
Episode 312
TWiM explains a new mechanism for preventing lysogeny through temperate phage-antibiotic synergy, and Salmonella expansion in the murine gut dependen…
1 year, 9 months ago
Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids
Episode 311
TWiM explores how climate change may be increasing our risks to infectious disease and then how the Odyssey literally comes alive in our microbial w…
1 year, 9 months ago
Starvation vs Dehydration: Who Loses, Who Wins?
Episode 310
TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productiv…
1 year, 10 months ago
Stomach Acid Can Be Your Friend
Episode 309
Today on TWiM, a charcuterie invasion, and how that acid in your stomach may protect from the invading hordes of microbes.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Pe…
1 year, 11 months ago
Living in a Community World
Episode 308
TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colo…
1 year, 11 months ago
Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal
Episode 307
TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colo…
2 years ago
Spirulina Smoothies
Episode 306
TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen v…
2 years ago
The Marvel of MAC
Episode 305
TWiM reviews the ongoing cholera outbreak in Africa, and research showing that gut complement induced by the microbiota blocks pathogens and spares c…
2 years, 1 month ago
A New blue cheese-Making Fungus
Episode 304
TWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and sideroph…
2 years, 1 month ago