Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchQuorum Sensing In The Gut
Episode 283
TWiM reveals quorum-sensing systems that regulate intestinal inflammation and permeability caused by P. aeruginosa, and how plasmids manipulate bacte…
3 years ago
At-home evolution with yeast
Episode 282
TWiM presents a protocol for evolving caffeine-tolerant yeast by high school students in the home, and how predator-prey dynamics change when multipl…
3 years, 1 month ago
Microbes Making Jet Fuel
Episode 281
TWiM explains the synthesis in bacteria of new energy-dense biofuels that can replace rocket and jet fuels, and the use of nanopore sequencing to i…
3 years, 1 month ago
They Forget To Divide
Episode 280
TWiM explains how magnesium modulates cell division frequency of a soil bacillus, and killing of fungi by Acinetobacter baumannii via a Type VI DNase…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Road Map For Successful Phage Therapy
Episode 279
TWiM describes successful phage therapy against a mycobacterial lung infection, and how encapsulation of the cell wall protects S. pneumoniae from it…
3 years, 2 months ago
Bacteria sing the blues
Episode 278
TWiM explores the relationship between the gut microbiome and depressive symptoms, and how purine nucleotides act as adjuvants to antibiotics.
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3 years, 3 months ago
To Stop or Not To Stop
Episode 277
On this episode of TWiM, we reveal widespread stop-codon recoding in bacteriophages that may regulate translation of lytic genes, and how Staphylococ…
3 years, 4 months ago
Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream
Episode 276
TWiM presents evidence that over half of human pathogenic diseases are impacted by climate change, and considers how a novel prokaryote discovered ne…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Myth of Clonality
Episode 275
TWiM reveals high rates of co-transformation of plasmids in E. coli overturns the clonality myth, and bacterial membrane vesicles as a novel strategy…
3 years, 5 months ago
Bacterial Endosymbionts Block Giant Viruses
Episode 274
Mark Martin returns to TWiM to join the discussion of how to design a complex gut microbiome, and protection of protists from virus infection by intr…
3 years, 5 months ago