This Week in Microbiology

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TWiM #47: Resistance on the surface Dec 19, 2012

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Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes on metal surfaces, and using bacteriophage to reverse antibiotic resistance.

TWiM #46: Spore! Dec 05, 2012

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Vincent, Michael, and Elio meet up with Jonathan Dworkin to discuss how bacteria form spores and how they return to vegetative growth.

TWiM #45: Secreted nucleic acids RIG a STING Nov 21, 2012

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Vincent, Michael, Elio review innate immune sensing of Listeria secreted bacterial nucleic acids, and how Wolbachia enhances egg production in Drosophila.

TWiM #44: Phage interruptus Oct 24, 2012

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Vincent, Michael, Elio discuss the role of prophage excision in exit of Listeria from the phagosome, and analysis of bacterial communities in saliva.

TWiM #43: Bacterial caveolae and zapping acne with phages Oct 10, 2012

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Vincent, Michael, Elio review formation of caveolae in a bacterium, and the limited genetic diversity and broad killing activity of P. acnes bacteriophages.

TWiM #42: Staphylococcus, a three-star pathogen Sep 26, 2012

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Vincent, Michael, Elio, and Joe review highlights of the 15th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ISSSI) in Lyon, France.

TWiM #41: ICAAC live in San Francisco Sep 13, 2012

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Vincent and Michael travel to San Francisco for the 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), where they meet with Bill, John, and Victor to discuss tuberculosis, monitoring infectious disease outbreaks with online data, and outside-the-box approaches to antibacterial therapy.

TWiM #40: A mecca for microbiology Aug 29, 2012

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Vincent and Stanley meet with Waclaw Szybalski and John Kirby at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the occasion of its designation as a Milestones in Microbiology site. They reminisce about how the well known laboratory has advanced the science and teaching of microbiology, and discuss John’s work on the soil dwelling, predatory myxobacteria.

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TWiM #39: What Darwin never knew Aug 15, 2012

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Vincent, Michael, and Elio reviews chapters from Microbes and Evolution, a collection of short, personal essays by microbiologists.

TWiM #38: The sound of whooping cough Aug 02, 2012

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Vincent, Jo, Michael, and Elio review an outbreak of pertussis in Washington, and how culturing can reveal rare members of the soil biosphere.

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