Dickson joins the TWiM team to discuss the nasal microbiota of dairy farmers, and attenuation of bacterial virulence by quorum sensing in the maize weevil.
Host: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
Guest: Dickson Despommier
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Links for this episode
- Nasal microbiota of dairy farmers (PLoS One)
- Measuring species richness, diversity, similarity (pdf one, pdf two)
- Quorum sensing attenuates virulence (Cell Host Micr)
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- Transcript of this episode (html or pdf)
- Letters read on TWiM 168
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