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TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts

TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts

FromThis Week in Microbiology


TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts

FromThis Week in Microbiology

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Dec 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson
The TWiMeriti reveal a Brazilian social bee that must cultivate a fungus to survive, and diet-mediated reduction in gut colonization by Candida albicans.
Links for this episode 

Bee cultivates fungus to survive (Curr Biol)
Diet reduces C. albicans gut colonization (mSphere)
mSphere, a new open-access ASM journal
Image credit
Letters read on TWiM 116

This episode is sponsored by ASM Biodefense and the 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium.
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@twiv.tv.
Released:
Dec 2, 2015
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.