TWiM 218: The lengths SARS-CoV-2 will go

The TWiM team explains how breathing can transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how lack of breathing leads to loss of mitochondria in a multicellular parasitic animal.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 217: The chronicles of narnaviruses

The TWiM team explains an experimental vaccine to prevent E. coli urinary tract infections, and the remarkable three-way symbiosis of narnaviruses, bacteria, and fungi.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 216: It starts with a cough

The TWiM team discuses saliva as more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swab and how Mycobacterium tuberculosis sulfolipid-1 activates nociceptive neurons and induces cough.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 215: Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence

A ferret model for infection by SARS-CoV-2, and how Neolithization lead to emergence of a human bacterial pathogen.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 214: Masterful subversion

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Vincent, Elio and Michael reveal the ASM COVID-19 summit, and how Salmonella injects a protein into the cell to drive suppression of the immune response.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 213: Fugitive emissions

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Vincent, Elio and Michael discuss the stability of human coronaviruses on surfaces and in aerosols, and peptidoglycan production by a mosaic consisting of a bacterium within a bacterium within an insect.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 212: A coronavirus outbreak and IRF4 deficiency in Whipple’s disease

The TWiM team reviews the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, and the finding that an IRF4 deficiency underlies Whipple’s disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 211: Bacteria, colon cancer, and fire blight

The Fellowship of the TWiM reveal that colorectal cancer-associated microbiota are associated with higher numbers of methylated genes in colonic mucosa, and identification of metabolites needed by the fire blight disease bacterium for virulence in apples.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 210: The Waze of microbes

The Microbial Comrades present the oldest osteosynthesis in history, and how a small molecule produced by stressed bacteria is a warning signal that repels healthy populations to promote their survival.

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage

The TWiM team reveals how ribosome modification resuscitates bacterial persister cells, and explain how a phage tail fiber protein exploits rotation of flagella to move towards the cell membrane.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

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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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