<description>&lt;p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"&gt; &lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; TWiM reveals a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Vibrio&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; as the causative agent of sea star wasting disease, and using microcolony-seq to uncover phenotypic inheritance from single cells.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Hosts:  &lt;a href= "https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Schmidt-Michael"&gt; Michael Schmidt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href= "https://experts.umich.edu/2682-michele-swanson"&gt;Michele Swanson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Guest: Mark O. 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font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Links for this episode:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul style= "margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" style= "list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Agent of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="text-decoration: none;" href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40760083/"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sea star wasting disease&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (Nat Ecol Evol)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" style= "list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Sea star wasting&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="text-decoration: none;" href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02789-2"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; mystery solved&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (Nat Ecol Evol)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" style= "list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Phenotypic inheritance from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style= "text-decoration: none;" href= "https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2825%2900915-8"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; 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This Week in Microbiology

Vincent Racaniello

341: Sea Star Wasting Disease

SEP 27, 202548 MIN
This Week in Microbiology

341: Sea Star Wasting Disease

SEP 27, 202548 MIN

Description

TWiM reveals a Vibrio as the causative agent of sea star wasting disease, and using microcolony-seq to uncover phenotypic inheritance from single cells.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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