MicrobeWorld Video Podcast
1) MWV 111 - TWiM live at Microbe 2017: 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. Hos...Show More
2) MWV 110 - How to Create Agar Art Using Living Microbes
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...Show More
3) MWV 109 - The Never-ending Vaccine Race
Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman discuses 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...Show More
4) MWV 107 - The Necrobiome: Microbial Life After Death
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 th...Show More
5) MWV 106 - This Week in Virology - Boston Quammens
Four years after filming 'Threading the NEIDL', Vincent and Alan return to the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory BSL4 facility at Boston University where they speak with science writer ...Show More
6) MWV 105 - Understanding the Pathogenesis of the Emerging Zika Virus
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 restr...Show More
7) MWV 104 - Can We Live in a World Without Microbes?
Written and Produced by Erika Shugart, PhD Narration by Chaseedaw Giles Filmed and Edited by Sam Mandl and Chris Condayan Production Supervisor Katherine Lontok, PhD Additional Video Footage by NASA's...Show More
8) MWV 103: A plague of pathogens - TWiM #121 Live at ASM Biodefense
Filmed live at ASM Biodefense 2016 with special guests: Rebekah Kading and Wyndham Lathem. From the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting, Vincent Racaniello speaks with Rebekah and W...Show More
9) MWV 102 - Missing Microbes with Dr. Martin Blaser
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 ...Show More
10) MWV 100 - Milestones in Blue: TWiM 114 live at the University of Michigan
The This Week in Microbiology team, 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 Microb...Show More
MWV 100 - Milestones in Blue: TWiM 114 live at the University of Michigan
1:11:21 | Nov 6th, 2015