This Week in Microbiology
Hosted by Michael Schmidt and Vincent Racaniello and Michele Swanson and Petra Levin · Vincent Racaniello
4.8from 733 ratings
- 365
- Episodes
- 62
- Transcribed
- 733
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2011
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Microbiology
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.
- Publisher
- Vincent Racaniello
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Feb 2011
- Latest episode
- 26 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
62 of 365 episodes have a transcript.
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
364: DNA Damage as Defense Against Bee Pathogens
12 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
363: Why Vegetables Are Good for Your Heart
29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
362: When Gut Bacteria Share Chromosomes
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364: DNA Damage as Defense Against Bee Pathogens
Published 26 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's really dominated by five core taxa. One of my favorite names is Snodgracella. I mean, I know. Perfect, right? Gilemella, Bombi lactobacillus, lactobacillus, and bifidobacterium. So, you know, they're organized in what's considered the hindgut of the organism. And they're non-core bacterial symbionts of Symbartinella and then this guy, Frisella Pereira, or F. Pereira. And it actually colonizes a region called the pylorus, which is between the midgut and the hindgut. And that overlaps, it says, a bacterial biofilm formed by Snodgracilla. I just want to say that again, Snodgracilla and the gillimella, a couple of gillimella species. […]
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- John Coffin
- Michael Malamy
- Verna Manni
- Mark O Martin
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- YouTube views
- 3,023,148
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 533 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 200 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Michael Schmidt and Vincent Racaniello and Michele Swanson and Petra Levin host the show. Published by Vincent Racaniello.
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