TWiM 158: The bottom line

commodeThe TWiM team considers a report on prokaryotic viral DNA in mammalian brain, and how diarrhea is beneficial, by clearing enteric pathogens.

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

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TWiM 157: Back to the ancestor

moonmilkThe TWiMbionts explore the role of bacteria in the genesis of moonmilk, and how ancient host proteins can be used to engineer resistance to virus infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson

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TWiM 156: Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis

Leptopilina boulardiiThe TWiM team explains the use of microbial genome mining to identify new drugs, and how a bacterial symbiont protects flies against parasitoid wasps.

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

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TWiM 155: Living in the stomach of a cell

Coxiella burnetiiMichele updates the TWiMers on Legionella in the Flint water supply, and Elio informs us about how horizontally acquired biosynthesis genes boost the physiology of Coxiella burnetii.

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

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TWiM 154: Rigor, Lotteries, and Moonshots

At Microbe 2017 in New Orleans, the TWiM team speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous science, funding by lottery, and moonshot science.

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

Guest: Arturo Casadevall

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TWiM 153: Covert pathogenesis

exfoliationThe TWiM team ventures into preprint space with an analysis of type VI secretion across human gut microbiomes, and provide insight into urinary tract infection: how bladder exposure to a member of the vaginal microbiota triggers E. coli egress from latent reservoirs.

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

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TWiM 152: Wooden steps

Kuphus

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt

The TWiMmers get cozy with symbionts: bacteria that allow a giant shipworm to oxidize sulfur, and algae that live within salamander cells.

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TWiM 151: Bat and moth antimicrobials

wine, beer, waterHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson

The TWiMsters discuss potential new sources of antimicrobial compounds from unusual places: the skin of bats and the intestines of moths.

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TWiM 150: Microbiology is where it’s at

Robin PatelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson

Guest: Robin Patel

In recognition of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, Robin Patel speaks with the TWiM team about directing a clinical bacteriology laboratory, and how an observation made by a laboratory technologist lead to the finding that Ureaplasma species can cause a system metabolic disturbance, hyperammonemia.

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TWiM 149: You’re going to learn R

Pat SchlossHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson

Guest: Pat Schloss

The TWiM team speaks with Pat Schloss about assigning sequence data to operational taxonomic units, and his experience with mSphere Direct, a new way of submitting papers for publication.

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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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