On episode #29 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent and Stanley review how a phage pierces the cell membrane with an iron-loaded spike, and two programmed cell death systems in E. coli.
You can find TWiM #29 at microbeworld.org/twim.
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This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) #12: Photothermal nanoblades and genome engineering
Hosts:Â 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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TWiM 9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4
Hosts:Â 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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Links for this episode:
- Ecocyc, a database on E. coli
- E. coli outbreak investigations at CDC
- Discussion of E. coli origin (Biofortified)
- Outbreak update at Eurosurveillance
- Summary of outbreak at ProMedMail
- More evidence points to sprouts (CIDRAP)
- Phage on the rampage (NatureNews)
- Letters read on TWiM #9
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