TWiM travels to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases to learn how research conducted at USAMRIID leads to vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and training programs that protect both warfighters and civilians.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

Guests: Norman Kreiselmeir, Christopher K Coat, Keersten Ricks, and Eric Nguyen

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• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
• Threading the NEIDL (TWiV 200)
• Unintentional importation of B. pseudomallei into US (Emerg Inf Dis)

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• Engineering the cow for less methane emissions (WaPo)
• Precision microbiome editing (Audacious Project)
• Giant viruses carry antibiotic resistance genes (Nat Commun)
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TWiM explains a project to engineer the cow microbiome to reduce emissions of methane, and the finding of antibiotic resistance genes in the genomes of giant viruses.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

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• Engineering the cow for less methane emissions (WaPo)
• Precision microbiome editing (Audacious Project)
• Giant viruses carry antibiotic resistance genes (Nat Commun)
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TWiM explains how bacterial community structure can be used to predict athletic performance in racehorses, and the idea that a tiny fraction of all species forms most of Nature.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Mark O. Martin.

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Links for this episode

• Microbiome picks a winner (Sci Rep)
• Picking a Winner by Reading the Form
• Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
• How much does it cost to breed a horse?
• Date of birth and purchase price as foals or yearlings and race performance
• Rarity as a sticky state (PNAS)
• How many species on Earth? (PLoS Biol)
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TWiM explains unique modifications in the energy conservation pathways linked to methanogenesis in an Archaeon, and mechanisms of white nose fungal invasion of cells from the Little Brown Bat.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode

• Methyl-reducing methanogenesis (Nature)
• Pathogenic strategies of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Science)
• Adaptive fungal invasion of bat cells (Science)
• Little brown bat (Critter Catalog)
• Nature Notes: Little Brown Bat (Harpswell)
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