317: Bat White-nose Syndrome
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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: , , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode (Nature) (Science) Adaptive (Science) (Critter Catalog) (Harpswell) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome
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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: , , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode (Probiotics) (Gut Microbes) Blautia wexlerae ameliorates (Nat Commun) Phage tail–like (Science) ? (Front Micro) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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315: How Pseudomonas Became A Global Pathogen
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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: and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Evolution and host (Science) , infection by injection (Nat Comm) (Peer J) (Taming the Beast) (Wellcome Sanger Inst) (Antimicro Resist Inf Control) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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314: Microbes Sculpt Our Planet and Manage Inflammation
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TWiM explores the deep-dwelling microbes that sculpt our planet, and the use of microbes in bioelectronics to manage inflammation. Hosts: , , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Deep-dwelling (NY Times) resolve inflammation (Science) Active for managing inflammation (Science) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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313: Could Fungal Pathogens Outsmart US?
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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 and how committed experts are researching ways to save us and our food supplies. Hosts: , Guest: Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/nKJe5xNUocU Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Disaster (Biomedica) Emergence of (mBio) What if ? (JHU Press) : Good Science, Bad Science, and How to Make It Better (Amazon) Recorded at ASM Microbe 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Join us at the next ASM Microbe by visiting us at Music...
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312: Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing
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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: , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Temperate (mBio) (Cell Host Micr) by Sinclair Lewis (Wiki) by Mark Ptashne and bacteriophage fitness (Genetics) (Ad Exp Med Biol) (Drugs) a foodborne pathogen (CDC) (HHMI) - 30 years of Microbiology (McGovern Medical School) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded...
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311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids
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TWiM explores how climate change may be increasing our risks to infectious disease and then how the Odyssey literally comes alive in our microbial world but fear not, unlike the Trojans, the bacteria are fighting back and have developed resistance to this novel class of newly developed antimicrobials. Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode: fueling diseases (NY Times) and risk of infectious diseases (Nature) E. coli in Canada (Clin Micro) E. coli cells (YouTube) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by and used with permission. Send your microbiology...
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310: Starvation vs Dehydration: Who Loses, Who Wins?
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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: , , and . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on , , , , or by Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Plasticity of small intestinal (Cell Host Micr) (Nat Comm) How (Science Daily) (WikiCommons) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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309: Stomach Acid Can Be Your Friend
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Today on TWiM, a charcuterie invasion, and how that acid in your stomach may protect from the invading hordes of microbes. Hosts: , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Commentary: Peeling the onion: Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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308: Living in a Community World
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TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: , , and . Guest: Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Distinct (Nature) Bacterial (Nature) A (Nature) Spatial perspective on (Nature) (Yale Med) promotes its survival (mBio) (mBio) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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