The TWiM team describe the involvement of a microbiome in snail metamorphosis, and using Listeria to kill tumors. Hosts: <a href="http://virology.ws" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Schmidt</a>, and <a href= "https://twitter.com/umichmichele?lang=en" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Michele Swanson.</a> Subscribe to TWiM (free) on <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology/id422332846&ls=1https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology/id422332846?mt=2&ls=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a title= "TWiM on Google Podcasts" href= "https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aW1zaG93Lm1pY3JvYmV3b3JsZC5saWJzeW5wcm8uY29tLw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Podcasts</a>, <a title="TWiM on Android" href= "http://subscribeonandroid.com/twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>, <a title= "Subscribe to TWiM" href= "http://twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">RSS</a>, or by <a title= "Subscribe to TWiM via email" href="http://eepurl.com/Hu-U9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email.</a> Get the entire ASM Podcast Network via our <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id337731458?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microbeworld app</a>. Become a <a href="http://www.patreon.com/microbetv" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Patron of TWiM</a>! Links for this episode <ul> <li dir="ltr">Infectious diseases <a href= "https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/902305?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=32954HG&impID=1746099&faf=1"> after Florence</a> (Med Inf Dis)</li> <li dir="ltr"><a href= "http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1882/20181099">Cryptic niche switching</a> in gastropod (Proc Roy Soc B)</li> <li dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/science/snail-metamorphosis.html"> Metamorphosis</a> then no eating (NY Times)</li> <li dir="ltr">Listeria promotes <a href= "http://www.pnas.org/content/115/32/8179.long">tumor rejection</a> (PNAS)</li> <li dir="ltr"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopelta_chessoia#/media/File:Gigantopelta_chessoia.png"> Image credit</a></li> <li dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.aduro.com/file.cfm/18/docs/LADD_pathway_v3d.jpg">LADD pathway</a> (jpg)</li> <li dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.aduro.com/technology/ladd/">LADD</a> (Aduro Biotech)</li> <li dir="ltr"><a href="https://youtu.be/FIT0fdt6c3Y">Crawling cells and comet tails</a> (YouTube)</li> <li dir="ltr"><a href= "index.php/podcasts/twim/twim-letters/item/7517-twim-186-letters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letters read</a> on TWiM 168</li> </ul> Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by <a href= "http://ronaldjenkees.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ronald Jenkees</a> and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to <a target="_blank" rel= "noopener">twim@microbe.tv</a>

187: Rounding up the bees

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.