TWiM 139: Frackibacter and sticky fingers

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

The TWiM team discusses microbial DNA found on ATM machines in New York City, and how hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, alters microbial ecosystems deep in the Earth.

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TWiM 138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum

Acinetobacter baumannii

Acinetobacter baumannii

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

The TWiM team brings you a bacterium from a Colorado field site that grows on uranium, and copper resistance in the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii.

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TWiM 137: The battle for oxygen

colonic cryptsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

From the TWiM team, highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aerobic respiration.

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TWiM 136: Diderms and then monoderms

Cherry blossom deerHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

The TWiM team discusses the importance of neutrophils in microbial infections, and evidence that ancient bacteria had two cell walls.

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TWiM 135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends

dysbiosis in critical illnessHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

How critical illness alters the microbiome, and the consequences of a sewage spill into an aquatic environment, from the TWiM team.

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TWiM 134: Lipids that live forever

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

Design of a synchronously lysing bacterium for delivery of anti-tumor molecules in mice, and hopanoids, the lipids that live forever, brought to you by the four Microbies of TWiM.

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TWiM 133: Right under our noses

noseHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt

Insight into the biology of rhinovirus C from cryo-electron microscopy, and a novel antibiotic from a commensal bacterium that grows in the human nose, from the doctors of TWiM.

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TWiM 132: Bacteria learn long division

S. poulsoniiHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson

Vincent, Elio, and Michele present cell division by longitudinal scission in an insect symbiont, and thermally activated charge transport in microbial nanowires.

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TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly

TWiM 131Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt

Michael and Vincent present Spotlights, brief reviews of classic papers in the Journal of Bacteriology, and explain how a single bacterial species can reverse autism-like social deficits in the offspring of obese mice.

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TWiM 130: Interkingdom interactions at ASM Microbe

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

Guests: David S. Schneider and Vanessa Sperandio

The TWiMers get together at ASM Microbe 2016 in Boston to speak with David and Vanessa to talk about their work on regulation of bacterial virulence in the gut by bacterial adrenergic sensors, and the physiological mechanisms that make us ill and that help us recover.

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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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