TWiM 201: Microbiology papers for first year students

Mark Martin joins Vincent and Michael to present compelling papers suitable for teaching microbiology to undergraduate students.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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TWiM 200: In the company of Elio

Vincent, Michele, and Michael travel to San Diego to reminisce with Elio about his career, his work in microbiology, and his love for microbes and mushrooms.

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

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TWiM 199: PhD Balance

From ASM Microbe 2019, the Microbials meet up with Susanna and Alex to talk about mental health in graduate school and NIH peer review.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt

Guests: Susanna L. Harris and Alex Politis

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TWiM 198: Unexpectedly pathogenic bacteriophages

The TWiM team presents an extracellular bacterium associated with Paramecium, and induction of antiviral immunity by a bacteriophage that prevents bacterial clearance.

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

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TWiM 197: Intercellular microbial trade

The Microbials reveal how a chemosynthetic symbiont stores energy for its marine flatworm host, and extraction of nutrients from host cells by E. coli injectisome components.

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

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TWiM 196: I hear you

The Microbials discuss how ambrosia beetles utilize ethanol to farm fungi, and how cleaved cochlin protein sequesters bacteria in the inner ear to preserve hearing function.

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

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TWiM 195: Gingipain in the Alzheimer brain

Michael and Vincent discuss the finding of immunity to Cas9 protein in humans, and a potential role for an oral bacterium in Alzheimer’s disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt

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TWiM 194: Standard imperial procedure

How a bacterium helps dengue virus replicate in the mosquito gut, and minicells as a damage disposal mechanism in E. coli.

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

Right click to download TWiM#194 (32 MB .mp3, 65 minutes)

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TWiM 193: Persisters

The TWiM team explore how Lactobacillus reuteri can rescue social deficits in three mouse models of autism spectrum disorder, and the role of Salmonella persisters in undermining host defenses during antibiotic treatment.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter

Right click to download TWiM#193 (29 MB .mp3, 61 minutes)

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TWiM 192: A Qtip for phages

Armillaria gallica

The TWiM team reveals an extremely low rate of mutation in a 2500 year old, 185 acre fungus in Michigan, and how a host-produced quorum sensing autoinducer controls the phage switch between lysis and lysogeny.

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

Right click to download TWiM#192 (30 MB .mp3, 62 minutes)

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The Hosts of TWiM

Petra Levin, Ph.D.


Michele Swanson, Ph.D.


Michael G. Schmidt, Ph.D.


Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.


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