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, …
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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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Margaret McFall-Ngai, and Elio Schaecter On episode #11 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Margaret, Michael and Elio review the presence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase genes in chicken meat and in humans, and a beneficial effect of Helicobacter pylori colonization on the development of allergen-induced asthma. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM011.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …
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The General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology will take place in New Orleans from 21-24 May 2011. This annual meeting covers fundamental microbial cell biology, genetics and physiology, environmental and applied microbiology, microbial ecology, pathogenesis, clinical microbiology, and infectious diseases. This year both This Week and Virology and This Week in Microbiology will be broadcast …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaecter On episode #6 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Elio review the use of bacteriophages to manage infections, and the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophages from urban sewage and river water. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM006.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Jo Handelsman, and Ronald Atlas. On episode #3 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Jo, Cliff, and Ron explore the genome analysis done in support of the Amerithrax investigation, and an insecticidal enterotoxin-deficient mutant of Bacillus thurigiensis. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM003.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to …
