On episode #29 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent and Stanley review how a phage pierces the cell membrane with an iron-loaded spike, and two programmed cell death systems in E. coli. You can find TWiM #29 at microbeworld.org/twim.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Stanley Maloy and Elio Schaechter. On episode #18 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the human intestinal commensal and benign laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 into an invasive organism, and the unearthing of century-old spores in New York City. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM018.mp3″] Click the arrow …
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter. Vincent, Michael and Elio focus on endosymbiosis: the rapid spread of Ricekttsia in whitefiles, and a metabolic patchwork in nested symbionts of mealybugs. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM017.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiM #17 (51 MB, .mp3, 70 minutes). Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes, Zune Marketplace, via RSS feed, …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Arturo Casadevall, Stuart Levy, and David Livermore. Vincent, Michael, Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease, at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM016.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiM 16 (65 MB, …
The Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) is the annual infectious diseases meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. This year the meeting will take place in Chicago, Illinois, and both This Week and Virology and This Week in Microbiology will be broadcast live from the meeting. TWiV will air on Saturday, September 17, at …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Margaret McFall-Ngai, and Elio Schaechter On episode #12 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Margaret, Michael and Elio review the use of photothermal nanoblades to dissect the Burkholderia intracellular life cycle, and manipulation of chromosomes in vivo for genome-wide codon replacement in E. coli. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM012.mp3″] Click the arrow …
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