This Week in Microbiology

By Vincent Racaniello

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 Oct 1, 2020

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 Mar 8, 2019
I love this podcast so much! It is hands-down the best way to keep up with micro news, and all the hosts are wonderful.

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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.

Episode Date
306: Spirulina Smoothies
Mar 15, 2024
305: The Marvel of MAC
Mar 02, 2024
304: A New blue cheese-making fungus
Feb 17, 2024
303: Can Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?
Feb 03, 2024
302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics
Jan 20, 2024
301: Another Year is Microbial
Jan 03, 2024
300: Marvels of Microbiology
Dec 16, 2023
299: Teaching with TWiM
Dec 02, 2023
298: Impact of Lung Microbiome and Racial Disparities on Asthma
Nov 16, 2023
297: Bacterial-electronic Sensor Pill
Nov 04, 2023
296: Bacterial Channels in Plant Cells
Oct 07, 2023
295: Uncultured and Unmutable
Sep 22, 2023
294: You’ll Scream After Ice Cream
Sep 08, 2023
293: Aerosol phage therapy, alpha-gal aptamers for MRSA
Aug 23, 2023
292: Breast Milk Bioactives
Aug 11, 2023
291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth
Jul 29, 2023
290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt
Jul 14, 2023
289: Viral Defense and Counter-Defense
Jun 30, 2023
288: Cancer and E. coli
Jun 09, 2023
287: When Replicas Do Not Replicate
May 20, 2023
286: Integrons and Invasion
May 05, 2023
285: How Plague Got Deadly
Apr 23, 2023
284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid
Apr 08, 2023
283: Quorum Sensing In The Gut
Mar 24, 2023
282: At-home evolution with yeast
Mar 10, 2023
281: Microbes Making Jet Fuel
Feb 17, 2023
280: They Forget To Divide
Jan 28, 2023
279: A Road Map For Successful Phage Therapy
Jan 13, 2023
278: Bacteria Sing The Blues
Dec 29, 2022
277: To Stop or Not To Stop
Dec 08, 2022
276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream
Nov 24, 2022
275: The Myth of Clonality
Nov 11, 2022
274: Bacterial Endosymbionts Block Giant Viruses
Oct 20, 2022
273: The Value of Wiping
Sep 30, 2022
272: Metabolism’s Got Rhythm
Sep 16, 2022
271: Microbe vs Microbe
Aug 25, 2022
270: Magnets and Salt Improve Plastics Production by Archaea
Aug 09, 2022
269: Bacterial But Not Microbial
Jul 22, 2022
268: Aspergillus and Aspergillum
Jul 08, 2022
267: The Honey Badger of Pathogens With Heran Darwin
Jun 24, 2022
266: Bacteria That Can Record
Jun 03, 2022
256: Antiviral Hotspots and Desiccation Tolerance
May 20, 2022
264: Antimicrobial Antipsychotics
May 06, 2022
263: Lavender and Catheters
Apr 15, 2022
262: Spot on With T4SS Modulators
Apr 01, 2022
261: Overwhelming Microbial Greatness
Mar 18, 2022
260: Carnivorous Vulture Bees
Feb 25, 2022
259: Sea Sawdust
Feb 14, 2022
258: A Tick’s Meal
Jan 21, 2022
257: I have one word for you: plastics
Jan 07, 2022
256: An mRNA Vaccine Against Ticks
Dec 16, 2021
255: Fleaing The Plague
Nov 21, 2021
254: Episymbionts Are Good For You
Nov 06, 2021
253: Cell growth and cell size with Petra Levin
Oct 28, 2021
252: Electrifying microbial fuel cells
Oct 08, 2021
251: Biofilms, Coronaviruses, and a Shigella Vaccine
Oct 02, 2021
250: E-scaffolds and paper stickers
Sep 10, 2021
249: Phage-pathogen and toxin-antitoxin conflicts
Aug 27, 2021
248: Borgs Are Real
Aug 13, 2021
247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages
Jul 30, 2021
246: Intracellular niche and passage
Jul 19, 2021
245: Bacteria that protect bees from fungi
Jul 03, 2021
244: Chewing for chicha
Jun 22, 2021
243: Beef and bacillus
Jun 04, 2021
242: Sourdough Starter Microbiomes
May 20, 2021
241: What Does Flu Do to Your Poo?
May 07, 2021
240: Aspirin, colorectal cancer, and Fusobacterium
Apr 26, 2021
239: The Phoenix of Bacteria
Apr 09, 2021
238: Parkinson’s disease gut microbiome
Mar 28, 2021
237: Ten years of TWiM, a quality quorum
Mar 11, 2021
236: Gossamer wings and symbionts on the sea bottom
Feb 20, 2021
235: Green algae and fatty acids
Feb 05, 2021
234: Corkscrewing through snot
Jan 21, 2021
233: Antivirals made by bacteria
Jan 08, 2021
232: Microbial nanowires
Dec 24, 2020
231: It’s a microbe-eat-microbe world
Dec 10, 2020
230: Ancient bacterial DNA
Nov 27, 2020
229: Dirt is not simple
Nov 05, 2020
228: Black in Microbiology with Ninecia Scott and Chelsey Spriggs
Oct 23, 2020
227: The light and dark sides of the fungal world
Oct 13, 2020
226: Two microbes you might not know
Sep 24, 2020
225: Lag phase is no slouch
Sep 11, 2020
224: One hundred million year old bacteria
Aug 28, 2020
223: The smell of soil
Aug 15, 2020
222: Biosensors in bacteria
Jul 30, 2020
221: Weapon of mucus destruction, WMD
Jul 16, 2020
220: From Mars to the vagina
Jul 03, 2020
219: Commensal for a healthy skin
Jun 19, 2020
218: The lengths SARS-COV-2 will go
Jun 06, 2020
217: The chronicles of narnaviruses
May 22, 2020
216: It starts with a cough
May 01, 2020
215: Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence
Apr 17, 2020
214: Masterful subversion
Apr 03, 2020
213: Fugitive emissions
Mar 20, 2020
212: A coronavirus outbreak and IRF4 deficiency in Whipple’s disease
Feb 06, 2020
211: Bacteria, colon cancer and fire blight
Jan 09, 2020
210: The Waze of microbes
Dec 05, 2019
209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage
Nov 14, 2019
208: Georgia Tech microbial
Oct 31, 2019
207: Partnerships to Advance Public Health
Oct 17, 2019
206: Bacteria send nucleotide signals
Oct 03, 2019
205: Asgards meet the Tardigrades
Sep 20, 2019
204: Programmable bacteria for antitumor immunity
Sep 06, 2019
203: A magnetotactic consortium under the sea
Aug 22, 2019
202: This frass doesn’t stink
Aug 08, 2019
201: Microbiology papers for first year students
Jul 26, 2019
200: In the company of Elio
Jul 12, 2019
199: PhD Balance
Jun 28, 2019
198: Unexpectedly pathogenic bacteriophages
Jun 01, 2019
197: Intercellular microbial trade
Apr 26, 2019
196: I hear you
Mar 29, 2019
195: Gingipain in the Alzheimer brain
Mar 04, 2019
194: Standard imperial procedure
Feb 14, 2019
193: Persisters
Jan 31, 2019
192: A Qtip for phages
Jan 18, 2019
191: By the pulp of their teeth
Dec 21, 2018
190: Exosomes in your nose and in your gut
Dec 07, 2018
189: Salmonella BonJovi
Nov 16, 2018
188: Turducken antibiotics
Oct 31, 2018
187: Rounding up the bees
Oct 19, 2018
186: Crypto-metamorphosis
Oct 05, 2018
185: There’s no moa Moa
Sep 21, 2018
184: CRISPR-Cas immune systems
Sep 07, 2018
183: Two symbioses
Aug 23, 2018
182: A micro story with macro implications
Aug 09, 2018
181: Dr. Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes
Jul 26, 2018
180: Microbecentricity with Mark O. Martin
Jul 13, 2018
179: Viable but not culturable
Jun 29, 2018
178: Corals are sexy with Christina Kellogg
Jun 15, 2018
177: Microbial sibling conflict
Jun 01, 2018
176: Elio has lots of colanic acid
May 17, 2018
175: Neomycin is antiviral
May 02, 2018
174: A Gathering Typhoid Storm
Apr 19, 2018
173: Gee whiz in style
Mar 30, 2018
172: Unfolding relaxases and soil malacidins
Mar 15, 2018
171: If you give a bee a fungus
Feb 22, 2018
170: Rats, lice, and nanoparticles
Feb 08, 2018
169: Breatharian Bacteria
Jan 23, 2018
TWiM #168: The lesser of two weevils
Jan 05, 2018
TWiM #167: I have one word for you: Flink
Dec 22, 2017
TWiM #166: Dark fermentation
Dec 07, 2017
TWiM #165: Pumping Copper
Nov 30, 2017
TWiM #164: Indiana Quorum
Nov 16, 2017
TWiM #163: Saliva and sptR/S
Nov 02, 2017
TWiM #162: Intracellular bacteria with flagella
Oct 13, 2017
TWiM #161: Eros, a bacterial aphrodisiac
Sep 21, 2017
TWiM #160: On the road to virus
Sep 08, 2017
TWiM #159: Immunophage synergy
Aug 31, 2017
TWiM #158: The bottom line
Aug 10, 2017
TWiM #157: Back to the ancestor
Jul 27, 2017
TWiM #156: Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis
Jul 13, 2017
TWiM #155: Living in the stomach of a cell
Jun 29, 2017
TWiM #154: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots
Jun 14, 2017
TWiM #153: Covert pathogenesis
May 30, 2017
TWiM #152: Wooden steps
May 19, 2017
TWiM #151: Bat and moth antimicrobials
May 04, 2017
TWiM #150: Microbiology is where it’s at
Apr 20, 2017
TWiM #149: You’re going to learn R
Apr 06, 2017
TWiM #148: Neanderthal Dentistry
Mar 23, 2017
TWiM #147: The Public Goods Dilemma
Mar 10, 2017
TWiM #146: Viral arbitrium
Feb 23, 2017
TWiM Special: Q fever with Robert Heinzen
Feb 16, 2017
TWiM #145: Anything but academic
Feb 09, 2017
TWiM #144: Did eukaryotes invent anything?
Jan 26, 2017
TWiM #143: E-scaffolds and receptor transfer
Jan 12, 2017
TWiM #142: A membrane-thickness caliper
Dec 29, 2016
TWiM #141: Nutritional immunity and polymicrobial infections
Dec 15, 2016
TWiM 140: Small town, big science
Dec 01, 2016
TWiM #139: Frackibacter and sticky fingers
Nov 18, 2016
TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum
Nov 03, 2016
TWiM #137: The battle for oxygen
Oct 20, 2016
TWiM #136: Diderms and then monoderms
Oct 07, 2016
TWiM #135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends
Sep 23, 2016
TWiM #134: Lipids that live forever
Sep 08, 2016
TWiM #133: Right under our noses
Aug 20, 2016
TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
Aug 05, 2016
TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly
Jul 20, 2016
TWiM #130: Interkingdom interactions at ASM Microbe
Jun 23, 2016
TWiM #129: Dried and wrinkled, smooth and mucoid
Jun 07, 2016
TWiM #128: A moonlighting phage protein
May 21, 2016
TWiM #127: Subway Snowblowers and Men in Black
May 05, 2016
TWiM #126: I’m not scared of zebrafish and mice and bears (oh my!)
Apr 22, 2016
TWiM #125: A minimal cell operating system
Apr 07, 2016
TWiM #124: Fungal pirates
Mar 24, 2016
TWiM #123: A microbial MAGE
Mar 09, 2016
TWiM #122: Mayonii, microRNAs and the microbiome
Feb 25, 2016
TWiM #121: A plague of pathogens
Feb 11, 2016
TWiM #120: Snakes in trouble
Feb 02, 2016
TWiM #119: Power of one
Jan 16, 2016
TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin’ on my head
Jan 01, 2016
TWiM #117: Finding the comammox
Dec 17, 2015
TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts
Dec 02, 2015
TWiM #115: Profiling the Poglianos
Nov 20, 2015
TWiM #114: Milestones in Blue
Nov 06, 2015
TWiM #113: Waves of Change
Oct 22, 2015
TWiM #112: Mushroom pickers and mushroom kickers
Sep 26, 2015
TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics
Sep 10, 2015
TWiM #110: Exploring unseen life with unpronounceable words
Aug 19, 2015
TWiM #109: Precision killing
Aug 06, 2015
TWiM #108: Vaccine in the time of cholera
Jul 23, 2015
TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder
Jul 09, 2015
TWiM #106: Lawn mower disease
Jun 24, 2015
TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs
Jun 05, 2015
TWiM #104: Feed me polyamines, biofilm
May 21, 2015
TWiM #103: The battle for iron
May 08, 2015
TWiM #102: Happiness is the spore-formers in your gut
Apr 24, 2015
TWiM #101: The MRSA in your home
Apr 01, 2015
TWiM #100: Omnis cellula e cellula
Mar 18, 2015
TWiM #99: Careers in Biodefense
Mar 04, 2015
TWiM #98: Bacteria and eukaryotes get horizontal
Feb 19, 2015
TWiM #97: There’s gold in them hills
Feb 04, 2015
TWiM #96: A lean, mean sequencing machine
Jan 21, 2015
TWiM #95: A microbe lover in San Diego
Jan 09, 2015
TWiM #94: Nitrochondria
Dec 25, 2014
TWiM #93: Worming in on bacteria
Dec 11, 2014
TWiM #92: Flying biofilms
Nov 27, 2014
TWiM #91: Rats, viruses, and bacteria
Nov 14, 2014
TWiM #90: Think globally, act locally
Oct 29, 2014
TWiM #89: Microbial handoffs
Oct 15, 2014
TWiM #88: A century of excellence in microbiology
Oct 01, 2014
TWiM #87: Avogadro, archaeal fossils, and ICAAC
Sep 17, 2014
TWiM #86: Blurring the line between organelle and endosymbiont
Sep 03, 2014
TWiM #85: Oscillation in the ocean and a Verona integron
Aug 21, 2014
TWiM #84: Microbiology Down Under
Aug 11, 2014
TWiM #83: Illuminating tuberculosis and cryptococcosis
Jul 24, 2014
TWiM #82: Betrayal and compromise
Jul 10, 2014
TWiM #81: Cold iron is the master of them all
Jun 28, 2014
TWiM #80: Hurling fleas and designer chromosomes
Jun 11, 2014
TWiM #79: A community of microbiologists
May 29, 2014
TWiM #78: A bacterium grows in Brooklyn
May 15, 2014
TWiM #77: Zombie plants and no pain, no gain
May 01, 2014
TWiM #76: Genetic biopixels and a pathogenic sweet tooth
Apr 11, 2014
TWiM #75: Pellicles on pickle jars
Mar 27, 2014
TWiM #74: It came from the Siberian permafrost
Mar 12, 2014
TWiM #73: Eyeing root nodule development
Feb 27, 2014
TWiM #72: The benefits of virulence
Feb 13, 2014
TWiM #71: Colon cancer’s little shop of horrors
Jan 22, 2014
TWiM #70: A paroxysmal cough
Dec 18, 2013
TWiM #69: Bacterial DNA in the human genome
Nov 27, 2013
TWiM #68: The fungus among us
Nov 14, 2013
TWiM #67: Black mushrooms and RNA thermosensors
Oct 30, 2013
TWiM #66: The shape of a container
Oct 17, 2013
TWiM #65: Leanness is transmissible
Oct 03, 2013
TWiM #64: URI and UTI at ICAAC in Denver
Sep 18, 2013
TWiM #63: Superantigens, S. aureus, and the armpit microbiome
Sep 04, 2013
TWiM #62: Breaking bad and protein chain mail
Aug 21, 2013
TWiM #61: The irony of probiotics
Aug 07, 2013
TWiM #60: Microbial electrochemistry and diversity-generating retroelements
Jul 24, 2013
TWiM #59: Are viruses part of our immune system?
Jul 10, 2013
TWiM #58: The brain microbiome?
Jun 20, 2013
TWiM #57: Updating the human gut microbiome to degrade seaweed
Jun 05, 2013
TWiM #56: Live at ASM in Denver
May 24, 2013
TWiM #55: In the copper room
Apr 24, 2013
TWiM #54: Dueling injectors and the microgenderome
Apr 10, 2013
TWiM #53: Live in Manchester
Mar 29, 2013
TWiM #52: Clinical microbiology with Ellen Jo Baron
Mar 11, 2013
TWiM #51: Cave science with Hazel Barton
Feb 27, 2013
TWiM #50: These things aren’t even bacteria!
Jan 30, 2013
TWiM #49: Grape-like Clusters
Jan 16, 2013
TWiM #48: It’s all about direction
Jan 03, 2013
TWiM #47: Resistance on the surface
Dec 19, 2012
TWiM #46: Spore!
Dec 05, 2012
TWiM #45: Secreted nucleic acids RIG a STING
Nov 21, 2012
TWiM #44: Phage interruptus
Oct 24, 2012
TWiM #43: Bacterial caveolae and zapping acne with phages
Oct 10, 2012
TWiM #42: Staphylococcus, a three-star pathogen
Sep 26, 2012
TWiM #41: ICAAC live in San Francisco
Sep 13, 2012
TWiM #40: A mecca for microbiology
Aug 29, 2012
TWiM #39: What Darwin never knew
Aug 15, 2012
TWiM #38: The sound of whooping cough
Aug 02, 2012
TWiM #37: Microbial Jekyll and Hyde
Jul 18, 2012
TWiM #36: Domesticating a pathogen
Jul 04, 2012
TWiM #35: Ohne hauch
Jun 21, 2012
TWiM #34: Doing the DISCO with Emiliania
Jun 04, 2012
TWiM #33: Tuning the immune organ
May 16, 2012
TWiM #32: Not the shadow biosphere
May 02, 2012
TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine
Apr 18, 2012
TWiM #30: Unraveling melioidosis and insulin resistance
Apr 04, 2012
TWiM #29: Death and an iron-loaded spike
Mar 21, 2012
TWiM #28: Not unorganized bags of enzymes
Mar 07, 2012
TWiM #27: An inflamed gut is good for Salmonella
Feb 22, 2012
TWiM #26: Suum cuique
Feb 08, 2012
TWiM #25: Magnetotactic bacteria and totally drug resistant TB
Jan 25, 2012
TWiM #24: This year in microbiology
Jan 11, 2012
TWiM #23: Fighting antibiotics with toxic gas and starvation
Dec 28, 2011
TWiM #22: Microbiology 911
Dec 14, 2011
TWiM #21: Symbiotic margheritas
Nov 30, 2011
TWiM #20: Facebook for bacteria
Nov 16, 2011
TWiM #19: Your microbiome is what you eat
Nov 02, 2011
TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?
Oct 19, 2011
TWiM #17: Debugging endosymbiosis
Oct 05, 2011
TWiM #16: ICAAC Live
Sep 22, 2011
TWiM #15: Microbial long distance relationships
Sep 07, 2011
TWiM #14: Vomocytosis and microbial transistors
Aug 24, 2011
TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad
Aug 10, 2011
TWiM #12: Photothermal nanoblades and genome engineering
Jul 27, 2011
TWiM #11: Chickens, antibiotics, and asthma
Jul 13, 2011
TWiM #10: A symbiotic cloaking device
Jun 29, 2011
TWiM #9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4
Jun 15, 2011
TWiM # 8: Live in NOLA
Jun 01, 2011
TWiM #7: Cycles of life and death, light and dark
May 18, 2011
TWiM #6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction?
May 04, 2011
TWiM #5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles
Apr 20, 2011
TWiM #4: Cantaloupes and Salmonella gastroenteritis
Apr 06, 2011
TWiM #3: Anthrax, genomics and the FBI inquiry
Mar 23, 2011
TWiM #2: The plague, microbial virulence and the gut microbiome
Mar 09, 2011
TWiM #1: Neisseria LINEs up
Feb 23, 2011