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TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin’ on my head

TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin’ on my head

FromThis Week in Microbiology


TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin’ on my head

FromThis Week in Microbiology

ratings:
Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Jan 1, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson
On the last episode for 2015, Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how soil amoeba hunt nematodes in packs, and the role of mushrooms as rainmakers.
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Links for this episode 

Pack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes (Environ Micro)
Mushrooms as rainmakers (PLoS One)
Mushroom by Nicholas Money
In the Company of Mushrooms by Elio Schaechter
Image credit
Letters read on TWiM 118

This episode is sponsored by ASM Microbe 2016 and ASM Biodefense
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:
Jan 1, 2016
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.