219: Commensal for a healthy skin
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson, Michael Schmidt
- Published
- Fri 19 Jun 2020
- Episode Link
- https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-219/
The TWiM discusses eradicating racism in academia and STEM, and a peptide from commensal bacteria that protects skin from damage caused by MRSA
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Links for this episode:
- Responsibility in academic research
- Improving equity in faculty hiring (MBoC)
- #ShutDownSTEM
- Peptide protects skin from microbial damage (AAC)
- Agr phase variants in S. aureus (mBio)
- S. aureus quorum sensing system (BMC Res Notes)
- COVID-19 joins pandemic legion (mBio)
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