Hosts: <a style="color: #4da7d4; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.virology.ws">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a style="color: #4da7d4; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank">Michael Schmidt</a>, <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #4da7d4; text-decoration: underline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://schaechter.asmblog.org/" target="_blank">Elio Schaechter</a> and <a style="color: #4da7d4; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.med.umich.edu/microbio/bio/swanson_m.htm">Michele Swanson</a>. 
The TWiMers discuss how aroma helps disperse yeast cells on insect vectors, and evidence that MRSA is transmitted within households.
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TWiM #102: Happiness is the spore-formers in your gut

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.