Latest Bact Podcast Episodes
308: Living in a Community World
This Week in Microbiology - April 13, 2024 07:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Guest: Mark O. Mart...
#55 Nipping Infections in the Bud: Spotlight on IPs in Long-Term Care
5 Second Rule - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsExplore the world of infection prevention and control in the long-term care sector on APIC's 5 Second Rule podcast. This episode features A.C. Burke, a veteran of the public health and healthcare sectors, who shares her passion for infection control in long-term care facilities. From issues of s...
307: Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal
This Week in Microbiology - March 30, 2024 05:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Subscribe to TWiM ...
307: Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal
This Week in Microbiology - March 30, 2024 05:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Subscribe to TWiM ...
EP 54 | This is Your Body on Carbs: Tips to Build Carb “Tolerance” with IBS
SIBO Made Simple - March 27, 2024 17:38 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 360 ratingsThe podcast is back for a very special two-part bonus episode series dedicated to the subject of carbs and IBS. Which also just so happens to be the subject of my new cookbook! On the last episode, I explained the role of carbohydrates in our digestive process and their impact on metabolic hea...
Martin Hoenigl on climate change and fungal diseases
The Lancet Microbe in conversation with - March 27, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutesRebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks with Professor Martin Hoenigl about the impact of climate change and natural disasters on fungal diseases. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00039-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic...
EP 53 | Blood Sugar & Digestion: How Your Gut Affects Your Metabolism and Vice Versa
SIBO Made Simple - March 20, 2024 08:15 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 360 ratingsThe podcast is back for a very special two-part bonus episode series dedicated to the subject of carbs and IBS. Which also just so happens to be the subject of my new cookbook! Since the SIBO Made Simple book came out, one big set of questions I keep getting asked from SIBO Amigos and members ...
306: Spirulina Smoothies
This Week in Microbiology - March 15, 2024 23:26 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin. Become a patron of TWiM. Links fo...
#54 From MRSA to Influence: A Patient’s Path to Advocacy
5 Second Rule - March 12, 2024 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn this engaging episode of the Five Second Rule podcast, hosts Kelly Holmes and Lerenza Howard converse with patient advocate Rosie Bartel, sharing her incredible battle with a persistent MRSA infection, which began as a complication of knee replacement surgery. As a survivor and activist, Rosi...
490: Parasitoid Pox Partners
BacterioFiles - March 11, 2024 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode: A virus partners with a parasitoid wasp to help exploit fruit fly victims! Download Episode (7.7 MB, 11.2 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Actinomadura livida Takeaways Parasitoid wasps have an interesting lifestyle: they inject their eggs into the larvae of o...
305: The Marvel of MAC
This Week in Microbiology - March 02, 2024 05:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM reviews the ongoing cholera outbreak in Africa, and research showing that gut complement induced by the microbiota blocks pathogens and spares commensal bacteria. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episo...
Nancy Chow on sporotrichosis
The Lancet Microbe in conversation with - March 01, 2024 13:00 - 21 minutesRebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Dr Nancy Chow about sporotrichosis and discusses a genomic epidemiology study of this zoonotic fungal disease among people and cats in Brazil. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00364-6/fullte...
#41: Making the invisible visible (with Anna Dumitriu)
Ferment Radio - February 28, 2024 16:09 - 24 minutesBacteria are often considered ugly and stinky; something dangerous that wants to get on us, and that we need to protect ourselves from. Fermentation is one way to overcome that prejudice and find pleasure and beauty in what many people fear, misunderstand, or even loathe. Another way is art, whi...
304: A New blue cheese-making fungus
This Week in Microbiology - February 17, 2024 05:22 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and siderophore in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Android, RSS, or by email. Become ...
#53 Journey to Chapter Excellence: A Tale of Two Stories
5 Second Rule - February 13, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn this episode of the 5 Second Rule podcast, hosts Lerenza Howard and Kelly Holmes talk with Aayushi Chheda, past president of the Midnight Sun Chapter of APIC, and Talia Lefkowitz, past president of the Greater New York Chapter of APIC, both winners of a 2023 Chapter Excellence Award. Aayushi ...
Deborah Williamson and Michael Moso on detecting on-SARS-CoV-2 viruses from COVID-19 rapid antigen test devices
The Lancet Microbe in conversation with - February 12, 2024 09:00 - 19 minutesElena Dalla Vecchia of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Deborah Williamson and Michael Moso about non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory viral detection from COVID-19 rapid antigen test devices. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00375-0/fulltext?dgcid=buz...
303: Can Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?
This Week in Microbiology - February 03, 2024 00:44 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM reveals a database of genome sequences of thousands of Mycobaterium tuberculosis, allowing association with resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiotics, and microbe-derived uremic solutes that enhance thrombosis potential in the host. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Sw...
489: Soil Smell Synthesis Significance
BacterioFiles - January 29, 2024 06:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode: Many organisms produce the smell of earth, geosmin, and many others can sense it–but why? Download Episode (6.0 MB, 8.7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Acidianus spindle-shaped virus 1 News item Takeaways The smell of soil or earth is one of the most...
302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics
This Week in Microbiology - January 20, 2024 08:20 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsTWiM describes the mechanism for the S. aureus itch and scratch induced skin damage, and discovery of a novel class of antibiotics that targets the lipopolysaccharide transporter. Become a patron of TWiM. Links: S. aureus drives itch and scratch behavior (Cell) S...
#52 Meet the 2024 President: Tania Bubb’s Outlook for the Future of APIC
5 Second Rule - January 09, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsAre you ready to be inspired by a conversation with Dr. Tania Bubb, APIC's 2024 president? Listen to this podcast to learn about her volunteerism, journey to the APIC presidency, initiatives, and values that she will promote during her leadership. Hear her discuss the importance of trust and col...
#40: Show me your kitchen, and I will tell you who you are (with David Zilber)
Ferment Radio - January 04, 2024 15:36 - 21 minutesWe choose our tools, and in return, our tools shape us. Tools can be an opening to new possibilities, but also a limitation. What makes the workspace of a fermenter? What tools are there available? How do these tools influence the process? In this episode, we sneak peek into the kitchen of Dav...
301: Another Year is Microbial
This Week in Microbiology - January 03, 2024 05:21 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsA highly reduced TWiM team presents a study of the use of phage diversity in cell-free DNA to identify bacterial pathogens in human sepsis cases, and the evolution, persistence, and host adaptation of a gonococcal antimicrobial resistance plasmid that emerged in the pre-antibiotic era. Hosts: ...
Episode 156: Microbe Talk: the best of 2023
Microbe Talk - December 20, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt’s the final episode of 2023 so Clare, Katie and Adam got together to discuss their favourite Microbe Talk moments of 2023 and what they’re most looking forward to in 2024. If you want to listen back to any of the podcast episodes mentioned in the podcast you can find these below: ...
300: Marvels of Microbiology
This Week in Microbiology - December 16, 2023 23:18 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsOn the occasion of TWiM’s 300th episode, we discuss how two college students found a new antibiotic in soil, Barbara Iglewski’s passing, and Elio returns for an appearance. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson. Guest: Elio Schaechter Become a patron ...
Episode 155: Knocking Out AMR: Dr Tina Joshi and Dr Catrin Moore on the Society’s new project
Microbe Talk - December 13, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of Microbe Talk, Policy and Engagement Officer Katie chats to Dr Tina Joshi and Dr Catrin Moore, the Microbiology Society members leading on the Society’s brand new antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project, Knocking Out AMR. In this episode, Katie, Tina and Catrin talk abo...
#51 APIC's Emerging Infectious Diseases Task Force: Changing Infection Prevention One Playbook at a Time
5 Second Rule - December 12, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsJoin us as we hear from Rosa Lozano, the chair of APIC's Emerging Infectious Diseases Task Force. She discusses her role in assembling the passionate, diverse members of the task force and how they are developing operational guidance to assist infection preventionists and public health professio...
488: Social Slimes Synchronize Sorties
BacterioFiles - December 11, 2023 06:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode: Slime mold amoebas Fonticula alba have interesting and unique foraging and reproductive behaviors! Download Episode (7.3 MB, 10.6 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Cajanus cajan Panzee virus News item Takeaways How did life develop from single-celled organ...
#39: Yeast upon a time (with Johanna Rotko)
Ferment Radio - December 07, 2023 13:22 - 34 minutesIt looks like a square, monochromatic, glass slide photo, and not only because of the material it is made of, but also because it could belong to a different time. It feels as if the face that emerges from there and gazes at you must have posed for a very long time for the exposure to do its job...
299: Teaching with TWiM
This Week in Microbiology - December 02, 2023 04:25 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 492 ratingsFrom ASM’s 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 use TWiM as part of their curricula. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin ...
Kate Baker on harnessing genomics for antimicrobial resistance surveillance
The Lancet Microbe in conversation with - November 23, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutesRebecca Barksby of The Lancet Microbe speaks to Professor Kate Baker about the challenges, potential, and recommendations for using genomics to monitor antimicrobial resistance. Read the full Series: https://www.thelancet.com/series/amr-genomics?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanmic Cont...
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