Hosts: <a style="color: #4da7d4; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.virology.ws">Vincent Racaniello</a> and <a style="color: #4da7d4; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank">Michael Schmidt</a>.
Vincent and Michael discuss the highly diverse microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians, and how the composition of human urine plays a role in the battle for iron.
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Links for this episode
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<li style="padding: 0.4em 0px 0.4em 36px; background-image: url(http://www.microbeworld.org/templates/microbeworld/images/_layout/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; height: 8.65625px; background-position: 16px 0.35em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Urinary composition controls <a style="color: rgb(77, 167, 212);" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25861985" target="_blank">siderocalin activity</a> (J Biol Chem)</li>
<li style="padding: 0.4em 0px 0.4em 36px; background-image: url(http://www.microbeworld.org/templates/microbeworld/images/_layout/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; height: 8.65625px; background-position: 16px 0.35em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Urine acidity and <a style="color: rgb(77, 167, 212);" href="http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2015/06/a-persons-diet-urine-acidity-may-affect-susceptibility-to-utis.aspx" target="_blank">UTI susceptibility</a> (Infect Cont Today)</li>
<li style="padding: 0.4em 0px 0.4em 36px; background-image: url(http://www.microbeworld.org/templates/microbeworld/images/_layout/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; height: 8.65625px; background-position: 16px 0.35em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a style="color: rgb(77, 167, 212);" href="http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=3CMP" target="_blank">Image (from pdb file 3cmp)</a> shows siderocalin (magenta) complexed</li>
<li style="padding: 0.4em 0px 0.4em 36px; background-image: url(http://www.microbeworld.org/templates/microbeworld/images/_layout/bullet.gif); line-height: 1.4em; height: 8.65625px; background-position: 16px 0.35em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">with iron (orange) and enterobactin (sticks)</li>
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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.