TWiM #110: Ex­plor­ing un­seen life with un­pro­nounce­able words

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The pod­cast about un­seen life on Earth hosted by: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swan­son. 

The TWiM team fo­cuses on the gut mi­cro­biome, from a sin­gle mem­ber, Akker­man­sia muciniphila, to the ef­fect of an­tibi­otics on its com­po­si­tion and col­o­niza­tion re­sis­tance against C. dif­fi­cile.

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Links for this episode

• Agar art con­test
• Akker­man­sia muciniphilia and obe­sity (Gut)
• A. muciniphilia genome (Biol Di­rect)
• Al­ter­ations of gut mi­cro­biota and C. dif­fi­cile col­o­niza­tion (mBio)
• Sci­ence De­liv­ered
• Girls Who Code
• F.E.M.M.E.S.
• As­so­ci­a­tion for Women in Sci­ence
• UMich Host-Mi­cro­biome Ini­tia­tive
• UMich anaer­o­bic cham­ber room (png)
• Let­ters read on TWiM 110 

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