Vincent Racaniello
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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.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research papers become lively, method-conscious conversations about microbes, resistance, host biology and the experiments behind scientific claims.
This Week in Microbiology turns research papers into conversations about how microbial science is actually done. Vincent Racaniello, Michelle Swanson, Petra Levin, Michael Schmidt and their guests move from findings to mechanisms, methods and remaining questions, keeping the…
Michael Schmidt follows an antibiotic target to the bacterial outer membrane; your curiosity gets to tag along.
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A clear food allergy discussion that tracks peanut proteins from immune alarm to the microbiome.
Peanut allergy becomes a microbiology problem as This Week in Microbiology follows what happens when human enzymes cannot fully digest key peanut allergens.
A focused episode linking Staph-driven itch and skin damage to the search for new gram-negative antibiotic targets.
This Week in Microbiology opens with itch treated as a microbiology story: Staph aureus drives scratching and skin damage through a V8 protease-PAR1 axis.
A thoughtful year-end conversation links phages, sequencing, and the hard-to-pin-down biology of antibiotic resistance.
Microbial life gets a clear year-end conversation as Vincent Racaniello and Petra Levin move from phages and fast sequencing into the mechanics of antibiotic resistance.
A milestone episode follows one isolate from microbial identification to antimicrobial testing, with the bench work kept clearly in view.
The 300th episode uses a single bacterial isolate as a way into the practical work of microbial identification and testing. Vincent Racaniello, with Michael Schmidt, Michelle Swanson, and Petra Levin, follows MV2 through 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing, landing on…
A live panel makes microbiology teaching feel more open, practical, and student-centered.
This Week in Microbiology uses a live Phoenix panel to turn microbiology teaching into something practical and inviting. Amaya Costas and Gwendolyn Knapp talk through podcasts, papers, spoken vocabulary, and peer explanation as different routes into hard material, with the…
Mushroom culture from soil to society.
Clear neuroscience for curious minds.
Plant papers, jokes, and useful uncertainty.
Weed science, from genomes to paddocks.
Biomedical careers, described from the inside.
Human stakes behind biomedical progress.
This episode of This Week in Microbiology features hosts Vincent Racaniello and guests Michelle Swanson and Michael Schmidt discussing a new blue cheese-making fungus, with insights into microbial food science and local cheese production at Clemson University.
This episode of This Week in Microbiology features host Vincent Racaniello and guests discussing unusual warm weather across the US, blending casual conversation with an introduction to microbial topics.
Host Vincent Racaniello and guests Michelle Swanson and Michael Schmidt introduce an episode exploring the link between the microbiome and heart health, starting with casual football talk about the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears.
This Week in Microbiology episode 353, recorded April 2, 2026, opens with a TS201 maize study that spans seven years, 22 locations, and 81 on-farm sites.
This Week in Microbiology episode 302 pairs a Cell study on Staphylococcus aureus itch with a Nature paper on Zosurabalpin for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
This Week in Microbiology 301, recorded on December 28, 2023, pairs Vincent Racaniello and Petra Levin with a Stanford cell-free DNA study on sepsis.
This Week in Microbiology episode 300, recorded December 14, 2023, centers on a Tiny Earth paper from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College about soil microbes from a 6.4-acre Green Bay park.
This Week in Microbiology episode 299 was recorded live in Phoenix at ASMQ on November 18, 2023, with Vincent Racaniello opening a panel on teaching undergraduates with TWIM.
This episode of This Week in Microbiology features hosts discussing recent microbiology research and news, with informal conversation among experts.
A live episode from ASM Microbe 2022 featuring an interview with a researcher about Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Vincent Racaniello and guests discuss recent microbiology research and news in an informal roundtable format.
A roundtable discussion with microbiology experts about recent research and topics in the field.
A roundtable discussion among microbiologists about recent research and summer activities.