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This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) #12: Photothermal nanoblades and genome engineering

29 July 2011 by Vincent Racaniello

intracellular modelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Margaret McFall-Ngai, and Elio Schaechter

On episode #12 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Margaret, Michael and Elio review the use of photothermal nanoblades to dissect the Burkholderia intracellular life cycle, and manipulation of chromosomes in vivo for genome-wide codon replacement in E. coli.

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Links for this episode:

  • Using a photothermal nanoblade to study intracellular life cycle (PNAS)
  • Reynolds number
  • Theriot lab movie collection
  • Manipulation of chromosomes in vivo (Science)
  • Stop codons
  • Church’s personal genomes project
  • Letters read on TWiM #12

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Filed Under: This Week in Microbiology Tagged With: bacteria, burkholderia, e.coli, engineering, genome, intracellular, microbe, microbiology, nanoblades, Photothermal

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