This Week in Microbiology
As a science Professor at Columbia University, Racaniello has spent his academic career directing a research laboratory focused on viruses. His enthusiasm for teaching inspired him to reach beyond the classroom using new media. TWiM is for everyone who wants to learn about the science of microbiology in a casual way.
While there are no exams or pop quizzes, TWiM does encourage interaction with the audience via comments on specific episodes (below), vial email and voicemail at 908-312-0760. Listeners can also use MicrobeWorld to suggest topics for the show by submitting articles or papers to the site and tagging them with "TWiM". Each week Racaniello will view the tagged content and select items for discussion.
TWiM co-hosts include Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis - TWiM 156
Written by Vincent RacanielloThe use of microbial genome mining to identify new drugs, and how a bacterial symbiont protects flies against parasitoid wasps.
Living in the stomach of a cell - TWiM 155
Written by Vincent RacanielloUpdates on Legionella in the Flint water supply, and how horizontally acquired biosynthesis genes boost the physiology of Coxiella burnetii.
Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots - TWiM 154
Written by Vincent RacanielloTWiM speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous science, funding by lottery, and moonshot science.
Analysis of type VI secretion across human gut microbiomes and insight into urinary tract infection: how bladder exposure to a member of the vaginal microbiota triggers E. coli egress from latent reservoirs.
The bacteria that allow a giant shipworm to oxidize sulfur, and algae that live within salamander cells.
Potential new sources of antimicrobial compounds from unusual places: the skin of bats and the intestines of moths.
Microbiology is where it’s at - TWiM 150
Written by Vincent RacanielloIn recognition of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, Robin Patel speaks with the TWiM team about directing a clinical bacteriology laboratory, and how an observation made by a laboratory technologist lead to the finding that Ureaplasma species can cause a system metabolic disturbance, hyperammonemia.
TWiM speaks with Pat Schloss about assigning sequence data to operational taxonomic units, and his experience with mSphere Direct, a new way of submitting papers for publication.
Vincent, Elio, and Michael reveal what Neanderthals ate from analysis of DNA in their teeth, and new CRISPR-Cas systems found in the genomes of uncultured microbes.
Why phosphorus is essential for fungal brain disease, and how bacteria kill local competitors to favor the evolution of public goods cooperation.
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