TWiM #80: Hurling fleas and designer chromosomes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.
Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how to synthesize a designer yeast chromosome, and deciphering the genetic changes path that allowed Yersinia pestis to be transmitted by fleas.
Links for this episode:- Total synthesis of a yeast chromosome (Science)
- Evolution of Y. pestis to flea-borne transmission (Cell Host Micr)
- Proventricular valve (Wikipedia)
- Image: flea with Y. pestis proventricular mass
- Letters read on TWiM 80
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twim.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.
Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how to synthesize a designer yeast chromosome, and deciphering the genetic changes path that allowed Yersinia pestis to be transmitted by fleas.
Links for this episode:- Total synthesis of a yeast chromosome (Science)
- Evolution of Y. pestis to flea-borne transmission (Cell Host Micr)
- Proventricular valve (Wikipedia)
- Image: flea with Y. pestis proventricular mass
- Letters read on TWiM 80
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twim.
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