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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Links for this episode
- Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge
- Uranium-respiring bacterium from a field site (PLoS One)
- Acid mine drainage (Wikipedia)
- Copper resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii
- ASM Grant Writing Online Course
- TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
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