TWiM 313: Could fungal pathogens outsmart us?

From ASM Microbe in Atlanta, Georgia, Arturo joins TWiM to reveal the threats that fungi pose to human health, including the notorious Candida auris and many more.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Mark O. Martin

Guest: Arturo Casadevall

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TWiM 312: Cry havoc! and let slip the phages of healing

TWiM explains a new mechanism for preventing lysogeny through temperate phage-antibiotic synergy, and Salmonella expansion in the murine gut dependency on aspartate derived from reactive oxygen species-mediated microbiota lysis.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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TWiM 311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids

TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson

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TWiM 310: Starvation vs. Dehydration – who loses, who wins?

TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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TWiM 309: Stomach acid can be your friend

On this episode of TWiM, a charcuterie invasion, and how that acid in your stomach may protect from the invading hordes of microbes.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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TWiM 308: Living in a Community World

Mark O Martin is TWiM-adjacent for this discussion of a Fusobacterium nucleatum clade that dominates colorectal cancer, and surface colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae promotes its survival in a model microbial community.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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TWiM 307: Attaching and effacing on a pedestal

TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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TWiM 306: Spirulina smoothies

TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin

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TWiM 305: The marvel of MAC

TWiM reviews the ongoing cholera outbreak in Africa, and research showing that gut complement induced by the microbiota blocks pathogens and spares commensal bacteria.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

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TWiM 304: A New blue cheese-making fungus

TWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and siderophore in uropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

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About the Hosts of TWiM

Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D. (@profvrr) is Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Medical Center. He has been studying viruses for over 40 years. He teaches virology to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as medical, dental, and nursing students. His lectures are available online at iTunes University, YouTube, and Coursera.


Michael Schmidt, Ph.D. (TWiM) is the Professor and Vice Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Office of Special Programs at the Medical College of South Carolina. Dr. Schmidt is leading a team of infectious disease specialists from three health sciences centers and engineers from industry.

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