This Week in Microbiology

Vincent Racaniello

EN363 episodes

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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)

262: Spot on With T4SS Modulators

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261: Overwhelming Microbial Greatness

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Mar 18, 20221:19:36pending

260: Carnivorous Vulture Bees

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259: Sea Sawdust

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Feb 14, 20221:01:46pending

258: A Tick's Meal

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Jan 21, 202252:41pending

257: I have one word for you: plastics

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Jan 7, 20221:01:19pending

256: An mRNA Vaccine Against Ticks

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Dec 16, 202141:51pending

255: Fleaing The Plague

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Nov 21, 202152:35pending

254: Episymbionts Are Good For You

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Nov 6, 20211:10:20pending

253: Cell growth and cell size with Petra Levin

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252: Electrifying microbial fuel cells

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Oct 8, 202157:44pending

251: Biofilms, Coronaviruses, and a Shigella Vaccine

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Oct 2, 202157:09pending

250: E-scaffolds and paper stickers

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Sep 10, 20211:05:03pending

249: Phage-pathogen and toxin-antitoxin conflicts

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Aug 27, 202148:55pending

248: Borgs Are Real

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Aug 13, 202158:37pending

247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages

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Jul 30, 202154:52pending

246: Intracellular niche and passage

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Jul 19, 202156:43pending

245: Bacteria that protect bees from fungi

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Jul 3, 202150:14pending

244: Chewing for chicha

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Jun 22, 202156:49pending

243: Beef and bacillus

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Jun 4, 202151:42pending

242: Sourdough Starter Microbiomes

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May 20, 202154:26pending

241: What Does Flu Do to Your Poo?

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May 7, 20211:04:01pending

240: Aspirin, colorectal cancer, and Fusobacterium

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239: The Phoenix of Bacteria

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Apr 9, 202153:57pending

238: Parkinson's disease gut microbiome

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Mar 28, 202156:53pending

237: Ten years of TWiM, a quality quorum

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Mar 11, 20211:05:01pending

236: Gossamer wings and symbionts on the sea bottom

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Feb 20, 202143:48pending

235: Green algae and fatty acids

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234: Corkscrewing through snot

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233: Antivirals made by bacteria

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232: Microbial nanowires

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231: It's a microbe-eat-microbe world

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Dec 10, 202054:58pending

230: Ancient bacterial DNA

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Nov 27, 202055:39pending

229: Dirt is not simple

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Nov 5, 202049:32pending

228: Black in Microbiology with Ninecia Scott and Chelsey Spriggs

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Oct 23, 202053:14pending

227: The light and dark sides of the fungal world

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226: Two microbes you might not know

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225: Lag phase is no slouch

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224: One hundred million year old bacteria

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Aug 28, 20201:15:03pending

223: The smell of soil

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222: Biosensors in bacteria

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Jul 30, 20201:19:04pending

221: Weapon of mucus destruction, WMD

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220: From Mars to the vagina

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219: Commensal for a healthy skin

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218: The lengths SARS-COV-2 will go

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217: The chronicles of narnaviruses

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May 22, 202051:36pending

216: It starts with a cough

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215: Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence

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214: Masterful subversion

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213: Fugitive emissions

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