
TWiM #137: The battle for oxygen
10/20/16 • 68 min
Highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aerobic respiration.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- Fred Neidhardt obituary
- Recent Advances in Microbial Control
- Science hero Bill Fenical
- Virulence factors and aerobic respiration (Science)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 137
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Highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aerobic respiration.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes, Stitcher, RSS, or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.
Links for this episode- Fred Neidhardt obituary
- Recent Advances in Microbial Control
- Science hero Bill Fenical
- Virulence factors and aerobic respiration (Science)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 137
This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and nonfiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE.
This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100.
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]
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TWiM #136: Diderms and then monoderms
Them TWiM team discusses the importance of neutrophils in microbial infections, and evidence that ancient bacteria had two cell walls.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes, Stitcher, RSS, or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.
Links for this episode- Conquering neutrophils (PLoS Path)
- Ancestral outer membrane in firmicutes (eLife )
- Were gram positive rods the first bacteria? (Cell)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 136
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Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]
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TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum
The TWiM team brings you a bacterium from a Colorado field site that grows on uranium, and copper resistance in the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii.
Hosts:
Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.
Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes, Stitcher, RSS, or by email. You can also listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.
Links for this episode- Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge
- Uranium-respiring bacterium from a field site (PLoS One)
- Acid mine drainage (Wikipedia)
- Copper resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii
- ASM Grant Writing Online Course
- TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
- Image credit
This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and nonfiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE.
This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100.
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]
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