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TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine

TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine

FromThis Week in Microbiology


TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine

FromThis Week in Microbiology

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Length:
75 minutes
Released:
Apr 18, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jo Handelsman, and Michael Schmidt
Vincent, Jo, and Michael discuss an archetypal protein transport system in bacterial outer membranes, and evidence that gut microbial enterotypes might not fall into defined groups.
Links for this episode:

Discovery of a TAM, a new bacterial protein transport system (Nat Struct Mol Biol)
Commentary on TAM discovery
Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome (Nature)
Gut enterotypes might be less clear-cut (Ed Yong)
Letters read on TWiM #31
Released:
Apr 18, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.