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2024-05-12

  Starvation vs Dehydration: Who Loses, Who Wins?

TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michel...
  Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin, Vincent Racaniello author
2024-04-26

  Stomach Acid Can Be Your Friend

Today on TWiM, a charcuterie invasion, and how that acid in your stomach may protect from the invading hordes of microbes. Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode 2024 Salmonella outbrea...
  Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin author
2024-04-13

  Living in a Community World

TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin ...
  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, Michele Swanson, Mark O. Martin author
2024-03-30

  Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal

TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin ...
2024-03-15

  Spirulina Smoothies

TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Le...
  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin. author
2024-03-02

  The Marvel of MAC

TWiM reviews the ongoing cholera outbreak in Africa, and research showing that gut complement induced by the microbiota blocks pathogens and spares commensal bacteria. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Become ...
  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson,Petra Levin author
2024-02-17

  A New blue cheese-Making Fungus

TWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and siderophore in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podc...
  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson author
2024-02-03

  Can Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?

TWiM reveals a database of genome sequences of thousands of Mycobaterium tuberculosis, allowing association with resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiotics, and microbe-derived uremic solutes that enhance thrombosis potential in the host. Hosts: Vincent R...
  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson. author
2024-01-20

  Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics

TWiM describes the mechanism for the S. aureus itch and scratch induced skin damage, and discovery of a novel class of antibiotics that targets the lipopolysaccharide transporter.   Become a patron of TWiM.   Links: S. aureus drives ...
  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson author
2024-01-03

  Another Year is Microbial

A highly reduced TWiM team presents a study of the use of phage diversity in cell-free DNA to identify bacterial pathogens in human sepsis cases, and the evolution, persistence, and host adaptation of a gonococcal antimicrobial resistance plasmid that ...
  Vincent Racaniello, Petra Levin author