Sunday, October 21, 2018
State Fair
Last interruption for a while: I was participating in the NC State Fair all weekend. It was fun and there were even microbe exhibits there! Though mostly ones encouraging hand-washing.
Monday, October 15, 2018
BacterioFiles 358 - elegans Endures Edifying Enterococcus
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| Caenorhabditis elegans By Bob Goldstein, UNC Chapel Hill Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Microbe of the episode: Siegesbeckia yellow vein betasatellite
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Journal Paper:
Rafaluk‐Mohr C, Ashby B, Dahan DA, King KC. 2018. Mutual fitness benefits arise during coevolution in a nematode-defensive microbe model. Evol Lett 2:246–256.
Other interesting stories:
- Phages can hide in bacterial spores and attack when the bacteria revive (paper)
- Probiotics seemed to increase risk in mice from gut parasite
- Studying the value of using probiotics before or after antibiotics
- More microbes than realized, even in gut, may be able to generate electricity
- Magnetotactic bacteria are really cool
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Sunday, October 7, 2018
No episode this week
Family event this weekend, so I didn't have time to get an episode up. See you next week!
Monday, October 1, 2018
BacterioFiles 357 - Colossal Contagion Codes Catabolism
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| Tetraselmis alga By: David Patterson and Bob Andersen, CC BY-NC 3.0 |
Thanks to Drs. Chris Schvarcz and Grieg Steward for their contributions!
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Microbe of the episode: Borrelia anserina
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Journal Paper:
Schvarcz CR, Steward GF. 2018. A giant virus infecting green algae encodes key fermentation genes. Virology 518:423–433.
Other interesting stories:
- Plant virus influences aphid nutrition and population growth
- Hosts can benefit from E. coli iron-gathering proteins
- Fog can sustain and transport microbes long distances
- Using bacteriophages to form useful nanostructures out of gold
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Monday, September 24, 2018
BacterioFiles 356 - Beams Boost Bolstered Bacteria
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| Nanomaterial-enhanced tumor-targeting bacterium From: Zheng et al. 2018, Nat Commun 9:1680 |
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Microbe of the episode: Maruca vitrata nucleopolyhedrovirus
Here's a paper I found that actually shows carbon dot nanomaterials enhancing bacterial nitrogen fixation
Journal Paper:
Zheng D-W, Chen Y, Li Z-H, Xu L, Li C-X, Li B, Fan J-X, Cheng S-X, Zhang X-Z. 2018. Optically-controlled bacterial metabolite for cancer therapy. Nat Commun 9:1680.
Other interesting stories:
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
Hurricane Florence
No episode this week, thanks to Hurricane Florence. I'm ok though and will be back next week! Everyone stay safe.
Monday, September 10, 2018
BacterioFiles 355 - Photon Factors Favor Fancy Fuels
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| Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast |
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Microbe of the episode: Equine arteritis virus
News item
Journal Paper:
Zhao EM, Zhang Y, Mehl J, Park H, Lalwani MA, Toettcher JE, Avalos JL. 2018. Optogenetic regulation of engineered cellular metabolism for microbial chemical production. Nature 555:683–687.
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