A video podcast by the American Society for Microbiology that highlights the latest in microbiology, life science and biotechnology news. ASM is composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals with the mission to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well-being worldwide. For information about ASM and MicrobeWorld, visit us online at www.microbeworld.org. For questions and/or feedback please email ccondayan@asmusa.org.
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2017-06-20 |
MWV 111 (audio only) TWiM live at Microbe: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots At Microbe 2017 in New Orleans, the TWiM team speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous science, funding by lottery, and moonshot science. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaec... |
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2017-03-01 |
MWV 110 - How to Create Agar Art Using Living Microbes (Audio Only) Step inside the creative process with Agar Art 2015 winners Maria Peñil Cobo, Mixed Media Artist, and Mehmet Berkmen, PhD, Staff Scientist at New England Biolabs. During their multi-year collaboration, Maria and Memo have created astonishing works of a... |
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2017-02-27 | Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman discusses her book The Vaccine Race. It tells the timely, epic, and controversial story of the development of the first widely-used normal human cell line and, through it, important viral vaccines, including t... |
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2016-10-20 |
MWV 107 The Necrobiome: Microbial Life After Death - Audio Only What happens to us after we die? A decomposing corpse becomes its own mini-ecosystem, hosting insects, scavengers and multitudes of microbes. Microbes from the environment, the corpse, as well as the insects and scavengers are blended together and wo... |
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2016-08-08 |
MWV 105 - - Understanding the Pathogenesis of the Emerging Zika Virus (Audio Only) Dr. Michael Diamond, 2016 Elizabeth O. King Lecturer, has worked for the past two decades investigating how viruses work, with a goal of defining basic principles of pathogenesis and host immune restriction.His talk will focus on how his laboratory has... |
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2016-05-20 |
MWV 104 - Can We Live in a World without Microbes? (Audio Only) Written and Produced by Erika Shugart, PhDNarration by Chaseedaw GilesFilmed and Edited by Sam Mandl and Chris CondayanProduction Supervisor Katherine Lontok, PhDAdditional Video Footage by NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterPhotography and Illustratio... |
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2016-02-11 |
MWV 103 (audio only): A plague of pathogens - TWiM #121 Live at ASM Biodefense Filmed live at ASM Biodefense 2016 with special guests:Rebekah Kading andWyndham Lathem.From the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting, Vincent Racaniello speaks with Rebekah and Wyndham about their work on Rift Valley Fever virus and o... |
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2016-01-29 |
MWV 102 - Missing Microbes with Dr. Martin Blaser (Audio Only) Why are obesity, juvenile diabetes and asthma increasing? Is it something in the environment or in our modern lifestyle? Dr. Martin Blaser thinks that it may be due to changes in our microbiome – the ecosystem of tiny microscopic creatures that live in... |
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2015-11-23 | Vincent take This Week in Microbiology to the University of California, San Diego campus and into the the laboratories of Kit and Joseph Pogliano, where he learns about their work on the bacterial cytoskeleton, sporulation, and the effects of antibioti... |
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2015-11-06 |
MWV 100 (audio only) - Milestones in Blue: TWiM 114 live at the University of Michigan Vincent, Elio, and Michele meet with Harry Mobley, Mary O’Riordan, and Vince Young at the University of Michigan, during the designation of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology as a Milestones in Microbiology site. They discuss how the laborat... |
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