This Week in Microbiology

• 354: How a Gut Microbe Worsens Heart Disease

  TWiM explains a candidate signature of health in the gut microbial community, and how an intestinal bacterium exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.

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

  Links for this episode

  • A candidate signature of health in the gut microbiome (Cell Host Microbe)
  • 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome (Nat Biotech)
  • A human gut metagenome-assembled genome catalogue spanning 41 countries (Nat Micro)
  • A comprehensive ruminant microbial catalog (Gigascience)
  • Bacteroides acidifaciens exacerbates cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury (Cell Host Microbe)
  • The Great Ozempic Experiment (NY Times, paywall)
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• 353: Microbial Metabolism of Food Allergens

  TWiM explains how to use microbes to enhance maize yield and reduce corn rootworm damage, and how the human microbiota modulates IgE-mediated reactions to foods through allergen metabolism.

  Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, and Michele Swanson.

  Guest: Mark O. Martin

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

  Links for this episode

  • Harnessing Microbes for Crop Production (Phytobiome J)
  • Microbes take on corn rootworm (Science)
  • Microbial metabolism of food allergens (Cell Host Microbe)
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• 352: Microbial Gut Biosensors

  TWiM reveals the archaeal roots of eukaryotic life, and a building a gut malabsorption biosensor with bacteria.

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

  Links for this episode

  • The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life (PNAS)
  • Building a malabsorption biosensor (Cell)
  • Engineering gut biosensors with microbes (Nature)
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• 351: Resistance Reboot

  TWiM discusses the use of bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination, and a conjugal gene drive-like system that efficiently suppresses antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

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  • Bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for food (Sci Adv)

  • Gene drive to suppress antibiotic resistance (npj antimicrob and resistance)

  • CRISPR gene drives (Syntego)

  • Bier laboratory

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

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• 350: TWiM Goes to College

  Nancy and Maggie join TWiM to share how and why they created a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom exercises that support teaching across key microbiology and molecular biology topics.
  
  

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  • Podcast annotation and resources in microbiology (Iowa State U)

  • Curriculum guidelines for undergraduate microbiology (ASM)
    
    

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