TWiM #128: A moonlighting phage protein

This Week in Microbiology

A eukaryote without a mitochondrion, and using a phage enzyme to eliminate intracellular bacteria are two topics discussed by the TWiMers on this episode.

Image (right): An entry in the ASM Agar Art Contest which bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the TWiM hosts.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt.

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Links for this episode

• Copper and Michael Schmidt in the news (The Scientist)
• Fair Pay for Postdocs (Huff Post)
• National Microbiome Initiative (White House)
• The shrinking mitochondrion (The Scientist)
• Eukaryote without a mitochondrion (Curr Biol)
• Why have organelles retained genomes? (Cell Sys)
• Bugs as drugs (Amer Acad Micro)
• Phage encoded lysin eliminates intracellular bacteria (eLife)

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