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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TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Stanley Maloy and Elio Schaechter.
On episode #18 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the human intestinal commensal and benign laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 into an invasive organism, and the unearthing of century-old spores in New York City.
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Links for this episode:
- Conversion of E. coli K-12 to an invasive form (mBio)
- Pedigree of E. coli K-12 (pdf)
- The facade of E. coli K-12 (Small Things Considered)
- Unearthing of century old bacteria in NYC (ABC News)
- Bacteria in 30,000 year old salt crystals (Geology)
- Old bacteria in ice
- Old, small, cold… (Small Things Considered)
- IP6 mediated autoprocessing of bacterial toxins (PloS Path)
- Letters read on TWiM #18
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TWiM 17: Debugging endosymbiosis
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.
Vincent, Michael and Elio focus on endosymbiosis: the rapid spread of Ricekttsia in whitefiles, and a metabolic patchwork in nested symbionts of mealybugs.
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Links for this episode:
- Nested symbiosis in mealybugs (Curr Bio)
- A bug in a bug in a bug (STC)
- Rapid spread of an endosymbiont in whitefly (Science)
- Instant evolution in whiteflies (UANews)
- Letters read on TWiM #17
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TWiM 16: ICAAC Live
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Arturo Casadevall, Stuart Levy, and David Livermore.
Vincent, Michael, Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease, at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).
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Links for this episode:
- Need for new antibacterials (J Antimicr Chem)
- Consumer antibacterial soaps (Clin Inf Dis)
- Endothermy and fungal growth (mBio)
- Bat white-nose syndrome (Microbe)
- Chytrid fungus in amphibians
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TWiV and TWiM live at ICAAC in Chicago
The Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) is the annual infectious diseases meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. This year the meeting will take place in Chicago, Illinois, and both This Week and Virology and This Week in Microbiology will be broadcast live from the meeting.  TWiV will air on Saturday, September 17, at 2:00 PM CDT, and TWiM will air on Monday, September 19, at 11:15 AM CDT, at McCormick Place in room W-470B.
Meeting attendees are welcome to attend and watch 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. During the live broadcasts a chat room will be available for listeners to submit questions.
Here are the participants for ICAAC TWiV and TWiM:
Saturday, 17 September, 2:00 pm CDT – This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello and friends
- Trine Tsouderos, Health/Medical Writer, Chicago Tribune
- Mark Pallansch, Ph.D., Chief of the Enterovirus Section in the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
Monday, 19 September, 11:15 am CDT – This Week in Microbiology with Vincent Racaniello and friends
- Stuart B. Levy, MD, Professor, Tufts Univ. School of Medicine/CSO, Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Tufts Univ. Sch. of Med., Boston, MA.
- Arturo Casadevall, MD, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Albert Einstein Coll. of Med. of Yeshiva Univ., Bronx, NY.
- David Livermore, Ph.D., HPA Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom
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
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@microbe.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twim.