Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?
Episode 303
TWiM reveals a database of genome sequences of thousands of Mycobaterium tuberculosis, allowing association with resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiot…
2 years, 2 months ago
Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics
Episode 302
TWiM describes the mechanism for the S. aureus itch and scratch induced skin damage, and discovery of a novel class of antibiotics that targets the …
2 years, 2 months ago
Another Year is Microbial
Episode 301
A highly reduced TWiM team presents a study of the use of phage diversity in cell-free DNA to identify bacterial pathogens in human sepsis cases, and…
2 years, 3 months ago
Marvels of Microbiology
Episode 300
On the occasion of TWiM's 300th episode, we discuss how two college students found a new antibiotic in soil, Barbara Iglewski's passing, and Elio ret…
2 years, 3 months ago
Teaching with TWiM
Episode 299
From ASM's Conference for Undergraduate Educators 2023 in Phoenix, TWiM speaks with Amaya Garcia Costas and Gwendolyn Knapp about their approaches to…
2 years, 4 months ago
Impact of Lung Microbiome and Racial Disparities on Asthma
Episode 298
TWiM provides thoughts on providing better training for a non-academic career, and help celebrate Black in Microbiology Week with a 2023 paper by Ari…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bacterial-electronic Sensor Pill
Episode 297
TWiM reviews how a coating of lipoproteins provides a stabilizing environment on the inner membrane of Bacillus subtilis spores, and a miniaturized d…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bacterial Channels in Plant Cells
Episode 296
TWiM discusses a dispute about whether the mycobiome plays a role in the development of cancer, and the structure and function of channels that are d…
2 years, 6 months ago
Uncultured and Unmutable
Episode 295
TWiM explains how phages avoid tRNA-targeting host defenses, and discovery of a new antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium that binds to an immutabl…
2 years, 6 months ago
You'll Scream After Ice Cream
Episode 294
TWiM reveals that the ice cream manufacturing environment harbors psychrotrophic bacteria, and identification of a deadly bacterial strain causing wi…
2 years, 7 months ago