TWiM 92: Flying biofilms

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

Vincent, Elio, Michael and Michele discuss the possible eradication of wild poliovirus type 3, and how microsporidian parasites prevent locust swarming behavior.

 

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TWiM 91: Rats, viruses, and bacteria

NYC subway ratHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson

Vincent, Elio, and Michele review a study of the viruses and bacteria in commensal rats in New York City.

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TWiM 90: Think globally, act locally

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello.

Special guests: Laurene Mascola and David Persing

Vincent meets up with Laurene and David at the Annual Meeting of the Southern California Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, where they discuss how the Los Angeles County Department of Health is preparing for an outbreak of Ebola virus infection, and Cepheid’s game-changing, modular PCR system for the diagnosis of infectious diseases.

https://youtu.be/6Ye5DDBK1k0

 

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TWiM 88: A century of excellence in microbiology

UWMilestonesTWIMHost: Michele Swanson

Guests: Thomas Brock,  Timothy Donohue, Katrina Forest, and Richard Gourse

Michele speaks with members of the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, on the occasion of its designation as a Milestones in Microbiology site, where they discuss how the department has advanced the science and
teaching of microbiology.

 

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TWiM 87: Avogadro, archaeal fossils, and ICAAC

Archaea membraneHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

Vincent, Elio, and Michael explore the fossilization of archaeal lipids, and highlight the recent ICAAC in Washington, D.C.

 

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TWiM 86: Blurring the line between organelle and endosymbiont

Acyrthosiphon pisum pea aphid-PLoSHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele consider whether our eating behavior is manipulated by gastrointestinal microbiota, and an aphid gene of bacterial origin whose gene product encodes a protein that is transported to an obligate endosymbiont.

 

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TWiM 85: Oscillation in the ocean and a Verona integron

2.drifting esp cropHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson

Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele discuss the diel transcriptional rhythms of bacterioplankton communities in the ocean, and extensively drug resistant Pseudomonas in Ohio.

 

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TWiM 84: Microbiology Down Under

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Special guests: David McMillan, Melanie Thomson, and Adam Polkinghorn

In Melbourne, Australia Vincent speaks with David, Melanie, and Adam about their work on group A Streptococcus, Helicobacter pylori, and infections of Koalas with Chlamydia.



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TWiM 83: Illuminating tuberculosis and cryptococcosis

F4.largeHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

Vincent, Michael, Elio and Michele review a new fluorogenic diagnostic test for tuberculosis bacteria, and the role of a metalloprotease in helping a fungus invade the central nervous system.

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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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