This Week in Microbiology
This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.
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Episodes (363)
312: Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing
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311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids
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310: Starvation vs Dehydration: Who Loses, Who Wins?
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309: Stomach Acid Can Be Your Friend
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308: Living in a Community World
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307: Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal
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306: Spirulina Smoothies
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305: The Marvel of MAC
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304: A New blue cheese-making fungus
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303: Can Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?
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302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics
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301: Another Year is Microbial
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300: Marvels of Microbiology
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299: Teaching with TWiM
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298: Impact of Lung Microbiome and Racial Disparities on Asthma
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297: Bacterial-electronic Sensor Pill
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296: Bacterial Channels in Plant Cells
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295: Uncultured and Unmutable
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294: You'll Scream After Ice Cream
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293: Aerosol phage therapy, alpha-gal aptamers for MRSA
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292: Breast Milk Bioactives
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291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth
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290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt
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289: Viral Defense and Counter-Defense
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288: Cancer and E. coli
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287: When Replicas Do Not Replicate
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286: Integrons and Invasion
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285: How Plague Got Deadly
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284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid
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283: Quorum Sensing In The Gut
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282: At-home evolution with yeast
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281: Microbes Making Jet Fuel
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280: They Forget To Divide
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279: A Road Map For Successful Phage Therapy
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278: Bacteria Sing The Blues
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277: To Stop or Not To Stop
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276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream
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275: The Myth of Clonality
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274: Bacterial Endosymbionts Block Giant Viruses
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273: The Value of Wiping
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272: Metabolism's Got Rhythm
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271: Microbe vs Microbe
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270: Magnets and Salt Improve Plastics Production by Archaea
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269: Bacterial But Not Microbial
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268: Aspergillus and Aspergillum
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267: The Honey Badger of Pathogens With Heran Darwin
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266: Bacteria That Can Record
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256: Antiviral Hotspots and Desiccation Tolerance
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264: Antimicrobial Antipsychotics
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263: Lavender and Catheters
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