This Week in Microbiology

This Week in Microbiology


Latest Episodes

299: Teaching with TWiM
December 01, 2023

From ASMs Conference for Undergraduate Educators 2023 in Phoenix, TWiM speaks with Amaya Garcia Costas and Gwendolyn Knapp about their approaches to undergraduate microbiology education, and how they

298: Impact of Lung Microbiome and Racial Disparities on Asthma
November 16, 2023

TWiM provides thoughts on providing better training for a non-academic career, and help celebrate Black in Microbiology Week with a 2023 paper by Ari Kozik, a co-founder of and Assistant Professor at

297: Bacterial-electronic Sensor Pill
November 03, 2023

TWiM reviews how a coating of lipoproteins provides a stabilizing environment on the inner membrane of Bacillus subtilis spores, and a miniaturized device that integrates genetically engineered probio

296: Bacterial Channels in Plant Cells
October 07, 2023

TWiM discusses a dispute about whether the mycobiome plays a role in the development of cancer, and the structure and function of channels that are delivered to plant cells by pathogenic bacteria. Hos

295: Uncultured and Unmutable
September 22, 2023

TWiM explains how phages avoid tRNA-targeting host defenses, and discovery of a new antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium that binds to an immutable target. Hosts: , , and , Become a of TWiM. Links

294: You’ll Scream After Ice Cream
September 08, 2023

TWiM reveals that the ice cream manufacturing environment harbors psychrotrophic bacteria, and identification of a deadly bacterial strain causing widespread deaths of newborns in Uganda. Hosts: , , &

293: Aerosol phage therapy, alpha-gal aptamers for MRSA
August 23, 2023

TWiM explains personalized aerosilized phage therapy for a chronic lung infection, and using the combination of antibiotic and a DNA molecule that binds alpha-gal to reduce S. aureus infection in vivo

292: Breast Milk Bioactives
August 11, 2023

TWiM reveals that breast milk bioactives are essential for development of the infant microbiome and immunity, and how capsule mutants of Klebsiella pneumoniae can affect bacterial pathogenesis. Hosts:

291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth
July 28, 2023

TWiM explains how photoferrotrophic bacteria initiated plate tectonics over 2500 million years ago, and how two bacteria work together to cause childhood tooth decay. Hosts: , , , , Guest: Subscrib

290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt
July 14, 2023

From ASM Microbe 2023 in Houston, TWiM speaks with Mimi Goldschmidt about her remarkable career in microbiology which included training astronauts to safely bring moon rocks back to Earth. Hosts: , ,