TWiM 317: Bat white-nose syndrome

TWiM explains unique modifications in the energy conservation pathways linked to methanogenesis in an Archaeon, and mechanisms of white nose fungal invasion of cells from the Little Brown Bat.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello,  Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin

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TWiM 316: Food addiction and the gut microbiome

TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello,  Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin

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TWiM 315: How Pseudomonas became a global pathogen

TWiM explores evolution and host adaptation of Pseudomonas infections of plants, and the impact of COVID-19 on ESBL-producing E. coli on urinary tract and blood infections.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt

Right click to download TWiM #315 (39 MB .mp3, 53 minutes)

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TWiM 314: Microbes sculpt our planet and manage inflammation

TWiM explores the deep-dwelling microbes that sculpt our planet, and the use of microbes in bioelectronics to manage inflammation. 

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin

Right click to download TWiM #314 (39 MB .mp3, 53 minutes)

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TWiM 313: Could fungal pathogens outsmart us?

From ASM Microbe in Atlanta, Georgia, Arturo joins TWiM to reveal the threats that fungi pose to human health, including the notorious Candida auris and many more.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Mark O. Martin

Guest: Arturo Casadevall

Right click to download TWiM #313 (32 MB .mp3, 44 minutes)

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TWiM 312: Cry havoc! and let slip the phages of healing

TWiM explains a new mechanism for preventing lysogeny through temperate phage-antibiotic synergy, and Salmonella expansion in the murine gut dependency on aspartate derived from reactive oxygen species-mediated microbiota lysis.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

Right click to download TWiM #312 (32 MB .mp3, 44 minutes)

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TWiM 311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids

TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson

Right click to download TWiM #311 (32 MB .mp3, 44 minutes)

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TWiM 310: Starvation vs. Dehydration – who loses, who wins?

TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

Right click to download TWiM #310 (49 MB .mp3, 67 minutes)

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TWiM 309: Stomach acid can be your friend

On this episode of TWiM, a charcuterie invasion, and how that acid in your stomach may protect from the invading hordes of microbes.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin

Right click to download TWiM #309 (49 MB .mp3, 67 minutes)

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TWiM 308: Living in a Community World

Mark O Martin is TWiM-adjacent for this discussion of a Fusobacterium nucleatum clade that dominates colorectal cancer, and surface colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae promotes its survival in a model microbial community.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin

Guest: Mark O. Martin

Right click to download TWiM #308 (49 MB .mp3, 67 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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