TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum
This Week in Microbiology · American Society for Microbiology
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Show Notes
The TWiM team brings you a bacterium from a Colorado field site that grows on uranium, and copper resistance in the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii.
Hosts:
Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge
- Uranium-respiring bacterium from a field site (PLoS One)
- Acid mine drainage (Wikipedia)
- Copper resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii
- ASM Grant Writing Online Course
- TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
- Image credit
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