This Week in Microbiology

By: Vincent Racaniello
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  • This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth.
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Episodes
  • 325: Microbes Making Methane
    Jan 10 2025

    TWiM reveals that record high atmospheric methane growth has been driven by microbes, and the cecum as an adaptive niche for Salmonella typhi.

    Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

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    Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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    • Why a potent greenhouse gas is rising (WaPo)
    • Microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth (PNAS)
    • Salmonella biofilm formation in the cecum (mBio)
    • Typhoid Mary (The Collector)
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    Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv

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    42 mins
  • 324: Back To School for TWiM
    Dec 27 2024

    From ASMCUE 2024, the conference on undergraduate education, TWiM speaks with Becky, Melanie, and Katriana about their careers and how they use TWiM in undergraduate microbiology education.

    Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Mark O. Martin

    Guests: Becky Seipel-Thiemann, Melanie Melendrez-Vallard, and Katriana Popichak

    Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Android, RSS, or by email.

    Become a patron of TWiM.

    Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

    Links for this episode
    • Take the TWiM Listener survey!

    Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 323: Better Concrete With Microbes
    Dec 13 2024

    TWiM describes how to make concrete more ‘green’ by using microbes, and bacterial bioluminescence as an important regulator of multitrophic interactions in the soil.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and and Mark O. Martin.

    Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or by email.

    Become a patron of TWiM.

    Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

    Links for this episode
    • Construction nanobiotechnology for concrete (Appl Env Micro)
    • Self-healing concrete (Sci Tot Environ)
    • Microbe-inspired self-healing concrete (Front Struct Civil Eng)
    • Bacterial bioluminescence regulates multitrophic interactions in the soil (Cell Rep)
    • Take the TWiM Listener survey!

    Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv

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    1 hr

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