Robinson Ridge, Antarctica, looking towards Sparkes Bay.
The cast of TWiM reveals how uropathogenic E. coli use a binding protein to treat copper as a nutrient or a toxin, and Antarctic soil bacteria that survive on trace atmospheric gases.
Host: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson
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Links for this episode
- Copper import in E. coli (Nat Chem Biol)
- Conversion of OD to cells/ml for E. coli
- Microbes live on atmospheric trace gases in Antarctic soil (Nature)
- Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem (SciHub)
- Hypolith (Wikipedia)
- Breatharians (Broadly)
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- Transcript of this episode (html or pdf)
- Letters read on TWiM 169
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