This Week in Microbiology
Vincent Racaniello
This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.
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TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- Matters Microbial
- Distinct Fusobacterium dominates colorectal cancer (Nature)
- Bacterial subspecies that might drive colon cancer (Nature)
- A bacterial strain linked to colon cancer (Nature)
- Spatial perspective on bacteria in tumors (Nature)
- Colorectal cancer in the young (Yale Med)
- Surface colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae promotes its survival (mBio)
- THOR, a model microbiome (mBio)
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