Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Value of Wiping
Episode 273
TWiM reveals how to inactivate norovirus on formica surfaces, and how to achieve antibiotic resistance by suppression of a frameshift mutation in an …
3 years, 6 months ago
Metabolism's Got Rhythm
Episode 272
TWiM explores the activation of natural product synthesis using CRISPR interference in Streptomyces, and how light/dark and temperature cycling modul…
3 years, 6 months ago
Microbe vs Microbe
Episode 271
TWiM presents a novel mucosal COVID-19 vaccine based on a bacteriophage capsid, and potentiation of C. difficile infection severity by the gut bacter…
3 years, 7 months ago
Magnets and Salt Improve Plastics Production by Archaea
Episode 270
TWiM explores the use of Archaea to produce plastics from molasses wastewater, and a bacterial defense against bacteriophage infection that involves …
3 years, 8 months ago
Bacterial But Not Microbial
Episode 269
TWiM reviews discovery of a bacterium that is visible to the naked eye, and reversible resistance to bacteriophage by shedding of the bacterial cell …
3 years, 8 months ago
Aspergillus and Aspergillum
Episode 268
TWiM discusses citizen science surveillance of drug-resistant Aspergillus in garden soil, and the mechanism of action of a copper dependent antibioti…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Honey Badger of Pathogens With Heran Darwin
Episode 267
From ASM Microbe 2022 in Washington, DC, Heran joins TWiM to discuss her career and her work on the agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis…
3 years, 9 months ago
Bacteria That Can Record
Episode 266
TWiM explains how spindle-shaped Archaeal viruses evolved from rod-shaped ancestors to package a larger genome, and transcriptional recording by CRIS…
3 years, 10 months ago
Antiviral Hotspots and Desiccation Tolerance
Episode 256
TWiM explains the discovery of hotspots of genetic variation containing reservoirs of anti-phage systems in E. coli phages and their parasitic satell…
3 years, 10 months ago
Antimicrobial Antipsychotics
Episode 264
TWiM reveals that the atypical antipsychotic quetiapine promotes multiple antibiotic resistance in E. coli, and treatment with Bifidobacterium lactis…
3 years, 11 months ago