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This Week in Microbiology — 362 episodes
361: Bacteria and Colon Cancer Recurrence
360: Nitrogen Fixation Goes Eukaryotic
359: Kin Killing and Metal Hunger
358: Gut Microbes and ALS
357: Remembering Elio at Tufts
TWiM 356: Nanopore to the bone
355: Bacteria Complete Your tRNA
354: How a Gut Microbe Worsens Heart Disease
353: Microbial Metabolism of Food Allergens
352: Microbial Gut Biosensors
351: Resistance Reboot
350: TWiM Goes to College
349: Punctured to Death by Spikes
348: The Bark Side of the Microbiome
347: At Wound's Edge
346: Metabolism and Porin Permeability
345: Faster Than Rocks!
344: Ant Yogurt and Fine Chocolate
343: Nucleotides to the Defense
342: The Microbiome, Pancreatic Cancer, and Sleep Quality
341: Sea Star Wasting Disease
340: Microbes in Trees and Plants
339: Missing the Company of Elio
338: Rewriting the Code of Life
337: Lifestyles of the Plasmids
336: The Volatilome of Biofluids
335: Slip Slidin' Away
334: Fungal Smuggle
333: When Mutualists Murder
332: Fibromyalgia Pain and the Gut Microbiome
331: Radar Love in Bacteria
330: More mouth Microbiology
329: Bacteria Hunt With Grappling Hooks
328: Capturing Shigella With Filopodia
327: Freezing and Anti-Freezing With Bacteria
326: I Have One Word For You: PETase!
325: Microbes Making Methane
324: Back To School for TWiM
323: Better Concrete With Microbes
322: Photohydrolysis Decontamination Reduces Healthcare-associated Infections
321: The Microbes in Your Food
320: Rockstars of USAMRIID
319: The Dark Side of the Rumen
318: How To Pick a Winner
317: Bat White-nose Syndrome
316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome
315: How Pseudomonas Became A Global Pathogen
314: Microbes Sculpt Our Planet and Manage Inflammation
313: Could Fungal Pathogens Outsmart US?
312: Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing
311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids
310: Starvation vs Dehydration: Who Loses, Who Wins?
309: Stomach Acid Can Be Your Friend
308: Living in a Community World
307: Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal
306: Spirulina Smoothies
305: The Marvel of MAC
304: A New blue cheese-making fungus
303: Can Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?
302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics
301: Another Year is Microbial
300: Marvels of Microbiology
299: Teaching with TWiM
298: Impact of Lung Microbiome and Racial Disparities on Asthma
297: Bacterial-electronic Sensor Pill
296: Bacterial Channels in Plant Cells
295: Uncultured and Unmutable
294: You'll Scream After Ice Cream
293: Aerosol phage therapy, alpha-gal aptamers for MRSA
292: Breast Milk Bioactives
291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth
290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt
289: Viral Defense and Counter-Defense
288: Cancer and E. coli
287: When Replicas Do Not Replicate
286: Integrons and Invasion
285: How Plague Got Deadly
284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid
283: Quorum Sensing In The Gut
282: At-home evolution with yeast
281: Microbes Making Jet Fuel
280: They Forget To Divide
279: A Road Map For Successful Phage Therapy
278: Bacteria Sing The Blues
277: To Stop or Not To Stop
276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream
275: The Myth of Clonality
274: Bacterial Endosymbionts Block Giant Viruses
273: The Value of Wiping
272: Metabolism's Got Rhythm
271: Microbe vs Microbe
270: Magnets and Salt Improve Plastics Production by Archaea
269: Bacterial But Not Microbial
268: Aspergillus and Aspergillum
267: The Honey Badger of Pathogens With Heran Darwin
266: Bacteria That Can Record
256: Antiviral Hotspots and Desiccation Tolerance
264: Antimicrobial Antipsychotics
263: Lavender and Catheters
262: Spot on With T4SS Modulators
261: Overwhelming Microbial Greatness
260: Carnivorous Vulture Bees
259: Sea Sawdust
258: A Tick's Meal
257: I have one word for you: plastics
256: An mRNA Vaccine Against Ticks
255: Fleaing The Plague
254: Episymbionts Are Good For You
253: Cell growth and cell size with Petra Levin
252: Electrifying microbial fuel cells
251: Biofilms, Coronaviruses, and a Shigella Vaccine
250: E-scaffolds and paper stickers
249: Phage-pathogen and toxin-antitoxin conflicts
248: Borgs Are Real
247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages
246: Intracellular niche and passage
245: Bacteria that protect bees from fungi
244: Chewing for chicha
243: Beef and bacillus
242: Sourdough Starter Microbiomes
241: What Does Flu Do to Your Poo?
240: Aspirin, colorectal cancer, and Fusobacterium
239: The Phoenix of Bacteria
238: Parkinson's disease gut microbiome
237: Ten years of TWiM, a quality quorum
236: Gossamer wings and symbionts on the sea bottom
235: Green algae and fatty acids
234: Corkscrewing through snot
233: Antivirals made by bacteria
232: Microbial nanowires
231: It's a microbe-eat-microbe world
230: Ancient bacterial DNA
229: Dirt is not simple
228: Black in Microbiology with Ninecia Scott and Chelsey Spriggs
227: The light and dark sides of the fungal world
226: Two microbes you might not know
225: Lag phase is no slouch
224: One hundred million year old bacteria
223: The smell of soil
222: Biosensors in bacteria
221: Weapon of mucus destruction, WMD
220: From Mars to the vagina
219: Commensal for a healthy skin
218: The lengths SARS-COV-2 will go
217: The chronicles of narnaviruses
216: It starts with a cough
215: Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence
214: Masterful subversion
213: Fugitive emissions
212: A coronavirus outbreak and IRF4 deficiency in Whipple's disease
211: Bacteria, colon cancer and fire blight
210: The Waze of microbes
209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage
208: Georgia Tech microbial
207: Partnerships to Advance Public Health
206: Bacteria send nucleotide signals
205: Asgards meet the Tardigrades
204: Programmable bacteria for antitumor immunity
203: A magnetotactic consortium under the sea
202: This frass doesn't stink
201: Microbiology papers for first year students
200: In the company of Elio
199: PhD Balance
198: Unexpectedly pathogenic bacteriophages
197: Intercellular microbial trade
196: I hear you
195: Gingipain in the Alzheimer brain
194: Standard imperial procedure
193: Persisters
192: A Qtip for phages
191: By the pulp of their teeth
190: Exosomes in your nose and in your gut
189: Salmonella BonJovi
188: Turducken antibiotics
187: Rounding up the bees
186: Crypto-metamorphosis
185: There's no moa Moa
184: CRISPR-Cas immune systems
183: Two symbioses
182: A micro story with macro implications
181: Dr. Warhol's Periodic Table of Microbes
180: Microbecentricity with Mark O. Martin
179: Viable but not culturable
178: Corals are sexy with Christina Kellogg
177: Microbial sibling conflict
176: Elio has lots of colanic acid
175: Neomycin is antiviral
174: A Gathering Typhoid Storm
173: Gee whiz in style
172: Unfolding relaxases and soil malacidins
171: If you give a bee a fungus
170: Rats, lice, and nanoparticles
169: Breatharian Bacteria
TWiM #168: The lesser of two weevils
TWiM #167: I have one word for you: Flink
TWiM #166: Dark fermentation
TWiM #165: Pumping Copper
TWiM #164: Indiana Quorum
TWiM #163: Saliva and sptR/S
TWiM #162: Intracellular bacteria with flagella
TWiM #161: Eros, a bacterial aphrodisiac
TWiM #160: On the road to virus
TWiM #159: Immunophage synergy
TWiM #158: The bottom line
TWiM #157: Back to the ancestor
TWiM #156: Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis
TWiM #155: Living in the stomach of a cell
TWiM #154: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots
TWiM #153: Covert pathogenesis
TWiM #152: Wooden steps
TWiM #151: Bat and moth antimicrobials
TWiM #150: Microbiology is where it's at
TWiM #149: You're going to learn R
TWiM #148: Neanderthal Dentistry
TWiM #147: The Public Goods Dilemma
TWiM #146: Viral arbitrium
TWiM Special: Q fever with Robert Heinzen
TWiM #145: Anything but academic
TWiM #144: Did eukaryotes invent anything?
TWiM #143: E-scaffolds and receptor transfer
TWiM #142: A membrane-thickness caliper
TWiM #141: Nutritional immunity and polymicrobial infections
TWiM 140: Small town, big science
TWiM #139: Frackibacter and sticky fingers
TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum
TWiM #137: The battle for oxygen
TWiM #136: Diderms and then monoderms
TWiM #135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends
TWiM #134: Lipids that live forever
TWiM #133: Right under our noses
TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly
TWiM #130: Interkingdom interactions at ASM Microbe
TWiM #129: Dried and wrinkled, smooth and mucoid
TWiM #128: A moonlighting phage protein
TWiM #127: Subway Snowblowers and Men in Black
TWiM #126: I'm not scared of zebrafish and mice and bears (oh my!)
TWiM #125: A minimal cell operating system
TWiM #124: Fungal pirates
TWiM #123: A microbial MAGE
TWiM #122: Mayonii, microRNAs and the microbiome
TWiM #121: A plague of pathogens
TWiM #120: Snakes in trouble
TWiM #119: Power of one
TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin' on my head
TWiM #117: Finding the comammox
TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts
TWiM #115: Profiling the Poglianos
TWiM #114: Milestones in Blue
TWiM #113: Waves of Change
TWiM #112: Mushroom pickers and mushroom kickers
TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics
TWiM #110: Exploring unseen life with unpronounceable words
TWiM #109: Precision killing
TWiM #108: Vaccine in the time of cholera
TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder
TWiM #106: Lawn mower disease
TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs
TWiM #104: Feed me polyamines, biofilm
TWiM #103: The battle for iron
TWiM #102: Happiness is the spore-formers in your gut
TWiM #101: The MRSA in your home
TWiM #100: Omnis cellula e cellula
TWiM #99: Careers in Biodefense
TWiM #98: Bacteria and eukaryotes get horizontal
TWiM #97: There's gold in them hills
TWiM #96: A lean, mean sequencing machine
TWiM #95: A microbe lover in San Diego
TWiM #94: Nitrochondria
TWiM #93: Worming in on bacteria
TWiM #92: Flying biofilms
TWiM #91: Rats, viruses, and bacteria
TWiM #90: Think globally, act locally
TWiM #89: Microbial handoffs
TWiM #88: A century of excellence in microbiology
TWiM #87: Avogadro, archaeal fossils, and ICAAC
TWiM #86: Blurring the line between organelle and endosymbiont
TWiM #85: Oscillation in the ocean and a Verona integron
TWiM #84: Microbiology Down Under
TWiM #83: Illuminating tuberculosis and cryptococcosis
TWiM #82: Betrayal and compromise
TWiM #81: Cold iron is the master of them all
TWiM #80: Hurling fleas and designer chromosomes
TWiM #79: A community of microbiologists
TWiM #78: A bacterium grows in Brooklyn
TWiM #77: Zombie plants and no pain, no gain
TWiM #76: Genetic biopixels and a pathogenic sweet tooth
TWiM #75: Pellicles on pickle jars
TWiM #74: It came from the Siberian permafrost
TWiM #73: Eyeing root nodule development
TWiM #72: The benefits of virulence
TWiM #71: Colon cancer's little shop of horrors
TWiM #70: A paroxysmal cough
TWiM #69: Bacterial DNA in the human genome
TWiM #68: The fungus among us
TWiM #67: Black mushrooms and RNA thermosensors
TWiM #66: The shape of a container
TWiM #65: Leanness is transmissible
TWiM #64: URI and UTI at ICAAC in Denver
TWiM #63: Superantigens, S. aureus, and the armpit microbiome
TWiM #62: Breaking bad and protein chain mail
TWiM #61: The irony of probiotics
TWiM #60: Microbial electrochemistry and diversity-generating retroelements
TWiM #59: Are viruses part of our immune system?
TWiM #58: The brain microbiome?
TWiM #57: Updating the human gut microbiome to degrade seaweed
TWiM #56: Live at ASM in Denver
TWiM #55: In the copper room
TWiM #54: Dueling injectors and the microgenderome
TWiM #53: Live in Manchester
TWiM #52: Clinical microbiology with Ellen Jo Baron
TWiM #51: Cave science with Hazel Barton
TWiM #50: These things aren't even bacteria!
TWiM #49: Grape-like Clusters
TWiM #48: It's all about direction
TWiM #47: Resistance on the surface
TWiM #46: Spore!
TWiM #45: Secreted nucleic acids RIG a STING
TWiM #44: Phage interruptus
TWiM #43: Bacterial caveolae and zapping acne with phages
TWiM #42: Staphylococcus, a three-star pathogen
TWiM #41: ICAAC live in San Francisco
TWiM #40: A mecca for microbiology
TWiM #39: What Darwin never knew
TWiM #38: The sound of whooping cough
TWiM #37: Microbial Jekyll and Hyde
TWiM #36: Domesticating a pathogen
TWiM #35: Ohne hauch
TWiM #34: Doing the DISCO with Emiliania
TWiM #33: Tuning the immune organ
TWiM #32: Not the shadow biosphere
TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine
TWiM #30: Unraveling melioidosis and insulin resistance
TWiM #29: Death and an iron-loaded spike
TWiM #28: Not unorganized bags of enzymes
TWiM #27: An inflamed gut is good for Salmonella
TWiM #26: Suum cuique
TWiM #25: Magnetotactic bacteria and totally drug resistant TB
TWiM #24: This year in microbiology
TWiM #23: Fighting antibiotics with toxic gas and starvation
TWiM #22: Microbiology 911
TWiM #21: Symbiotic margheritas
TWiM #20: Facebook for bacteria
TWiM #19: Your microbiome is what you eat
TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?
TWiM #17: Debugging endosymbiosis
TWiM #16: ICAAC Live
TWiM #15: Microbial long distance relationships
TWiM #14: Vomocytosis and microbial transistors
TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
TWiM #12: Photothermal nanoblades and genome engineering
TWiM #11: Chickens, antibiotics, and asthma
TWiM #10: A symbiotic cloaking device
TWiM #9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4
TWiM # 8: Live in NOLA
TWiM #7: Cycles of life and death, light and dark
TWiM #6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction?
TWiM #5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles
TWiM #4: Cantaloupes and Salmonella gastroenteritis
TWiM #3: Anthrax, genomics and the FBI inquiry
TWiM #2: The plague, microbial virulence and the gut microbiome
TWiM #1: Neisseria LINEs up