The TWiM hosts reveal how to test antimicrobial susceptibility in less than 30 minutes, and a carbonate-sensitive phytotransferrin in diatoms that controls iron uptake. Become a <a href= "http://www.patreon.com/microbetv" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Patron of TWiM</a>! Links for this episode: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.asm.org/index.php/podcasts/meet-the-microbiologist/item/7392-legionnaire-s-disease-with-michele-swanson"> Legionnaire’s Disease with Michele Swanson</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "http://www.pnas.org/content/114/34/9170">Antibiotic susceptibility</a> in less than 30 min (PNAS)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">S. saprophyticus growing in <a href= "http://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1708558114/video-3"> microfluidic chip</a> (movie, PNAS)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://jun.ucsd.edu/mother_machine.php">Mother machine</a> (Jun lab)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">E. coli growth in mother machine (YouTube)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Diatom <a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25982">phytotransferrin</a> (Nature)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">CRISPR <a href= "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765029">tool kit</a> (Nat Commun)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://amzn.to/2ArBWBI">A Crack in Creation</a> by Doudna and Sternberg</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bmb.21108"> CRISPR/Cas9</a> for undergrads (BMBE)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">John Oliver on <a href= "https://youtu.be/AJm8PeWkiEU">gene editing</a> (YouTube)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeodactylum_tricornutum#/media/File:Phaeodactylum_tricornutum.png"> Image credit</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Letters read on TWiM 182</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>

183: Two symbioses

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.