<description>&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hosts: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/profvrr" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Vincent Racaniello&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Michael Schmidt&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href= "https://biology.wustl.edu/people/petra-levin" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;Petra Levin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Become a &lt;a href="http://www.microbe.tv/contribute" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;patron&lt;/a&gt; of TWiM.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links for this episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Natural &lt;a href= "https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf5300" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;products from ancient bacterial genomes&lt;/a&gt; (Science)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href= "https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(23)00470-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Plant mRNAs move into fungal pathogens&lt;/a&gt; (Cell Host Microb)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://asm.org/twimpoll" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;Take the TWiM Listener surve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href= "https://asm.org/twimpoll" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;y!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to &lt;a href= "mailto:twim@microbe.tv"&gt;twim@microbe.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

This Week in Microbiology

Vincent Racaniello

306: Spirulina Smoothies

MAR 15, 202452 MIN
This Week in Microbiology

306: Spirulina Smoothies

MAR 15, 202452 MIN

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TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin.

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