Mark Martin returns to TWiM to join the discussion of how to design a complex gut microbiome, and protection of protists from virus infection by intracellular bacterial symbionts. Read more →
TWiM 254: Episymbionts Are Good For You
On This Week in Microbiology: Episymbionts Are Good For You
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TWiM #250: E-Scaffolds and Paper Stickers
An electrochemical scaffold that delivers safe doses of hypochlorous acid to treat wound infections in humans, and a method for sampling and monitoring bacteria and viruses or surfaces using plain paper stickers.
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TWiM 248: Borgs Are Real
TWiM discusses how to increase diversity in our field, and the discovery of Borgs, giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation.
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TWiM 247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages
TWiM explores whether ‘rewilding’ is a way to get back our missing gut microbes, and failure of bacteriophage therapy due to the production of neutralizing antibodies.
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TWiM 241: What Does Flu Do to Your Poo?
How Vibrio biofilms are dispersed by polyamine signals, and the induction of inappetence by respiratory virus infection which causes alteration of the gut microbiome.
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TWiM 239: The Phoenix of Bacteria
The TWiM team reviews how variants of P. aeruginosa survive antimicrobial treatment, and a decrease in the antimicrobial resistance of the gut microbiome in the presence of the fungus C. albicans.
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TWiM 238: Parkinson’s disease gut microbiome
Elio reveals his thoughts on the big themes of modern microbiology, followed by an analysis of the gut microbiome in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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TWiM 237: Ten years of TWiM, a quality quorum
To celebrate ten years, TWiM asks former hosts and guests to provide their thoughts on how microbiology has contributed to our understanding of the microbial world.
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TWiM 236: Gossamer wings and symbionts on the sea bottom
In this episode, hiring and training expectations for future biomedical life sciences faculty, and the roles of bacterial symbionts in deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworms.
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