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This Week in Microbiology

American Society for Microbiology

This Week in Microbiology (TWiM). 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)...

This Week in Microbiology Podcast Guide

Listen to This Week in Microbiology, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by American Society for Microbiology. Stream 356 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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355: Bacteria Complete Your tRNA

TWiM explains how an enhanced domestication method allows for growth of uncultured bacteria, and identification of the oncogene SLC35F2 as i...

56:00May 9, 2026

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-mediate...

46:53Apr 11, 2026

352: Microbial Gut Biosensors

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

59:47Mar 28, 2026

351: Resistance Reboot

TWiM discusses the use of bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination,...

59:21Mar 6, 2026

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...

53:16Feb 14, 2026

349: Punctured to Death by Spikes

TWiM explains how mechano-bactericidal surfaces made from diverse materials and patterned with spikes kill bacteria on contact, and virus-ho...

58:42Feb 1, 2026

348: The Bark Side of the Microbiome

TWiM explains the finding that owning a dog during adolescence alters the microbiota and improves mental health, and the molecular basis for...

53:37Jan 21, 2026

347: At Wound's Edge

TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host mic...

55:00Jan 5, 2026

346: Metabolism and Porin Permeability

TWiM explains how competition for nutrients anticipates and potentially mitigate drug side effects on the gut microbiota, and metabolic cont...

53:55Dec 13, 2025

345: Faster Than Rocks!

TWiM explains a biological mechanism that links sulfur and iron cycling in anoxic environments, and "swashing," a form of surface movement i...

53:31Nov 22, 2025

344: Ant Yogurt and Fine Chocolate

TWiM reveals the bacteria, acids, and enzymes behind yogurt made with ants, and a defined set of microbes that reproduces attributes of fine...

01:06:22Nov 8, 2025

343: Nucleotides to the Defense

TWiM explores two different ways that bacteria defend against phages through the synthesis of cyclic nucleotides. Hosts: Michael Schmidt and...

43:57Oct 25, 2025

341: Sea Star Wasting Disease

TWiM reveals a Vibrio as the causative agent of sea star wasting disease, and using microcolony-seq to uncover phenotypic inheritance from s...

48:35Sep 27, 2025

340: Microbes in Trees and Plants

TWiM explores the varied and distinct microbiome of trees, and an array of biopesticidal metabolites against mosquito larvae isolated from a...

48:58Sep 12, 2025

339: Missing the Company of Elio

TWiM pays tribute to Elio Schaechter, former TWiM host, blogger, and microbiologist extraordinaire, then reviews the finding that Archaea pr...

59:09Aug 29, 2025

338: Rewriting the Code of Life

TWiM discusses outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Harlem NY, an automated whole genome sequencing platform for bacterial strain typing in c...

53:22Aug 16, 2025

337: Lifestyles of the Plasmids

TWiM explains a study that examines pathogen presence in ancient humans and concludes that zoonoses emerged 6500 years ago with the domestic...

01:04:44Jul 31, 2025

336: The Volatilome of Biofluids

TWiM explores the use of gas sensors and machine learning to identify microbes and antimicrobial resistance in clinical specimens, and how a...

55:38Jul 19, 2025

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