TWiM #79: A community of microbiologists

05/29/14 • 71 min

Vincent, Michael, and Michele review highlights of the 2014 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, MA.

Vincent, Michael, and Michele review highlights of the 2014 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, MA.

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Vincent, Elio, and Michael consider a fungal pathogen of insects that acquired a gene from its host that facilitates infection, and presence of gram-negative nosocomial pathogens on community surfaces near hospitals in Brooklyn.

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TWiM #80: Hurling fleas and designer chromosomes

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.

Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how to synthesize a designer yeast chromosome, and deciphering the genetic changes path that allowed Yersinia pestis to be transmitted by fleas.

Links for this episode:

Total synthesis of a yeast chromosome (Science)
Evolution of Y. pestis to flea-borne transmission (Cell Host Micr)
Proventricular valve (Wikipedia)
Image: flea with Y. pestis proventricular mass
Letters read on TWiM 80

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