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TWiM 9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4

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bean sproutsHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, and Michael Schmidt.

On episode #9 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Elio, and Michael review the outbreak of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in Germany caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4.

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TWiM 8: Live in NOLA

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This Week in Microbiology #8Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Stan Maloy, Andreas Baümler, Nicole Dubilier, and Paul Rainey.

Vincent, Michael, and Stanley recorded episode #8 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, with guests Andreas Baümler, Nicole Dubilier, and Paul Rainey. They spoke about how pathogens benefit from disease, symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and marine invertebrates, and repetitive sequences in bacteria.

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TWiM 7 – Cycles of life and death, light and dark

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cyanobacteriaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Cliff Mintz, Elio Schaecter, and Michael Schmidt.

On episode #7 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Elio, Margaret, and Michael discuss programmed cell death in E. coli, and the daily synthesis and degradation of enzymes needed for photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria.

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Image of Cyanobacteria in Lake Littoistenjärvi by Stefe via flickr

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TWiV and TWiM live at ASM General Meeting

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twiv twim live 2011 asmgmThe General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology will take place in New Orleans from 21-24 May 2011. This annual meeting covers fundamental microbial cell biology, genetics and physiology, environmental and applied microbiology, microbial ecology, pathogenesis, clinical microbiology, and infectious diseases. This year both This Week and Virology and This Week in Microbiology will be broadcast live from the meeting.  TWiM will air on Sunday, May 22, and TWiV will air on Monday, May 23, both at 2 pm CDT, in Room 232 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Meeting attendees are welcome to attend and watch the live TWiV and TWiM and submit comments and questions during the show. The podcasts will be broadcast live and archived online at UStream.tv, at MicrobeWorld, and virology blog.

Here are the participants for ASM-GM TWiM and TWiV:

Sunday, 22 May, 2:00 p.m., CDT – This Week in Microbiology with Vincent Racaniello and friends

  • Stanley Maloy, Ph.D., Professor Dean, College of Sciences Associate Director, Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University
  • Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Office of Special Programs, Medical University of South Carolina
  • Nicole Dubilier, Ph.D., Leader of the Symbiosis Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
  • Andreas J. Bäumler, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis
  • David Aronoff, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan
  • Paul Rainey, Ph.D. Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University Auckland, Principal Investigator, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution, and Visiting Professor, Hopkins Microbial Diversity Program, Stanford

Monday, 23 May, 2:00 p.m., CDT – This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello and friends

  • Roger Hendrix, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
  • Harmit Malik, M.D., Associate Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Rachel Katzenellenbogen, M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Section of Adolescent Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine

 

TWiM 6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction?

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bacteriophage modelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaecter

On episode #6 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Elio review the use of bacteriophages to manage infections, and the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophages from urban sewage and river water.

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The model of bacteriophage T4 shown in the photo is described here.

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TWiM 5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles

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desulfovibrio biofilmHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Michael Schmidt, and Ronald Atlas.

Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Ron discuss the genome sequqnce of a mercury-methylating bacterium and the antimicrobial effects of nanoparticles.

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Image of Biofilm of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans by PNNL – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via flickr

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