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TWiM 274: Bacterial Endosymbionts Block Giant Viruses

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 →

Posted on October 27, 2022 at 01:29 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

TWiM 254: Episymbionts Are Good For You


On This Week in Microbiology: Episymbionts Are Good For You Read more →

Posted on November 11, 2021 at 03:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on September 23, 2021 at 03:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on August 19, 2021 at 03:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on August 05, 2021 at 03:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on May 20, 2021 at 02:03 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on April 22, 2021 at 02:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on April 01, 2021 at 03:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on March 18, 2021 at 02:30 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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. Read more →

Posted on March 04, 2021 at 03:59 AM in This Week in Microbiology | Permalink | Comments (0)

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