TWiM explores the use of gas sensors and machine learning to identify microbes and antimicrobial resistance in clinical specimens, and how a harmful algal bloom species releases thiamin antivitamins to suppress competitors.   Become a <a style="text-decoration: none;" href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"> patron</a> of TWiM.   Links for this episode: <ul style= "margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"> <li dir="ltr" style= "list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1"> Microbial and antimicrobial resistance <a style= "text-decoration: none;" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celbio.2025.100125"> diagnostics</a> (Cell Biomaterials) </li> <li dir="ltr" style= "list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1"> Thiamin antivitamins suppress algal <a style= "text-decoration: none;" href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01608-25"> competitors</a> (mBio) </li> </ul> Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by <a style= "text-decoration: none;" href= "http://ronaldjenkees.com/"> Ronald Jenkees</a> and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv

337: Lifestyles of the Plasmids

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.