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This Is ASM
A 4-minute overview of ASM’s mission, members and accomplishments. Originally aired at ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. This video covers the depth and breadth of the great research and...
ASM Communications

Tales of the Vault: a Common, yet Mysterious Organelle
Your cell’s vault organelles may be shrouded in mystery, but researchers are unlocking their potential to save lives and clean up the planet.
Janet Goins

Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Bringing the Laboratory Test to the Patient With Point-of-Contact Tests
Patient-centered or point-of-care testing is gaining in popularity—what does this mean for patients, the clinicians and laboratorians?
Audrey Schuetz

Designer Microbes: A Potential Living Cure for Crohn’s and Phenylketonuria
Designer microbes are coming to the rescue of patients suffering from two debilitating disorders that have no cure: PKU and Crohn’s Disease.
Monika Buczek

A new type of malaria vaccine utilizing the mosquito immune system with Car…
To eliminate malaria, you have to stop transmission. Carolina Barillas-Mury discusses the co-evolution of malaria, mosquitos, and man.

Crypto-metamorphosis - TWiM 186
The involvement of a microbiome in snail metamorphosis, and using Listeria to kill tumors.
Vincent Racaniello TWiM, microbiome, Listeria

Does a Minimal Genome Exist?
How can we define a minimal genome containing only the genes necessary for life - and what can we learn from these efforts?
Jennifer Tsang

Babbling Bacteria: A Discussion About Quorum Sensing with Marvin Whiteley
Dr. Marvin Whiteley talks about how and why bacteria talk to each other (quorum sensing), whether lab conditions can help us understand what a pathogen does inside a host, and...
Karl Klose quorum sensing, microtalk

Invasive Fungal Infections: a Creeping Public Health Threat
Invasive fungal infections were rare events until the mid-20th century. Why do fungi now kill more people each year than tuberculosis?
Ada Hagan

bioRxiv Subject Collection: Microbiology
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Sunday, 14 October 2018
The influenza A virus endoribonuclease PA-X usurps host mRNA processing machinery to limit host gene expression
Many viruses globally shut off host gene expression to inhibit activation of cell-intrinsic antiviral responses. However, host shutoff is not indiscriminate, since viral proteins and host proteins required for viral replication are still synthesized during shutoff. The molecular determinants of...

Citing “Alternative” Sources for Microbiology Resource Announcements
Microbiology Resource Announcements Editors will permit citing alternative sources, when identified as such and where a permanent public DOI exists.
ASM Communications

New Leadership Elected to the Board of Governors of the American Academy of…
Four new Governors have been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s Board of Governors. Gail Cassell, Lynn Enquist, Mary Estes, and Carey-Ann Burnham will join the Board of Governors...
ASM Communications

Toddy tappers - TWiP 160
The case of the Electrician from Tamil Nadu with a Liver Mass, and discussing how dogs and humans share a common Chadian Guinea worm.
Vincent Racaniello TWiP, Parasitism

Let’s Veto Mosquitoes: A Discussion About Malaria with Gunnar Mair
Dr. Mair talks about why breaking the transmission cycle by focusing on mosquitoes will help reduce global malaria, how a multi-pronged approach is necessary to eradicate this disease, how public...

Staying below the ADAR - TWiV 514
This years crop of Nobel Prizes, and how cells prevent leakage of mitochondrial double-stranded RNA into the cytoplasm, which would otherwise lead to the production of interferon.
Vincent Racaniello TWiV, viruses, innate immunity, mutagenesis

ASM Attends FDA Commissioner’s Announcement of New Plan to Combat AMR
On Friday, September 14, The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced the agency’s approach to reducing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through antibiotic stewardship and innovation.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board

Palmetto Finalizes LCD for Multiplex NAATs for Respiratory Viral Panels
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) subcontractor Palmetto MolDX has finalized its Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplified Tests (NAATs) for Respiratory Viral Panels.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board

Colossal Contagion Codes Catabolism - BacterioFiles 357
A new giant virus infecting marine algae brings its own genes related to fermentation, generating energy in the absence of oxygen!

Double-stranded in Belgium - TWiV 513
From the 13th International Symposium on dsRNA viruses in Belgium, Vincent speaks with Harry Greenberg about his career and his work on rotaviruses, noroviruses, hepatitis B virus, and influenza virus.
Vincent Racaniello TWiV, hepatitis b, rotavirus, Virology

Loa and Loa but not gone - TWiP 159
The case of the 9/11 Survivor infested with parasites, and the effect of community ivermectin treatment for onchocerciasis on Loa loa infections.
Vincent Racaniello TWiP, Parasites, Parasitism

Microbiology Resource of the Month: Improved Reference Genome for Fusarium …
Our September Microbiology Resource of the Month is an improved reference genome for plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum.
Julie Wolf

ACLA PAMA Lawsuit Dismissed for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction
The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA), a trade association representing clinical laboratories, challenged a regulation issued by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), specifically...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board

