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TWiV 1321: Phage cross talk and cross reactions
· 1 h 52 min · Episode 1321
Episode TWiV 1321: Phage cross talk and cross reactions
TWiV explains how cross-reactive anti-prophage antibodies and bacterial heteroresistance is implicated in phage therapeutic failure, and how phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey
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• Support science education at MicrobeTV • Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) • Craig Venter dies (Nature) • Hantavirus outbreak (WHO) • Hantavirus on board (YouTube) • HPS 25th anniversary discovery story (EID) • Phage therapeutic failure unraveled (Nat Med) • Phages communicate across species (Cell) • Control of lysis-lysogeny decisions (Trends Micro) • Arbitrium phages manipulate each other (Cell) • Elio Schaechter on arbitrium (TWiM 146) • Letters read on TWiV 1321 • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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Links in the notes 20
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello
- https://mgm.ufl.edu/profile/condit-rich/
- https://bbarkerdrew.com/
- https://ramseylab.vercel.app/
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/id1176779065
- https://www.microbe.tv/contribute
- https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/RosenfeldA@mlhs.org
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01433-8
- https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
- https://youtu.be/ndAYrzLVokM?si=V-kDxoVnUd82AO4q
- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/11/18-0381_article
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04301-0
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.004
- https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(24)00291-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0966842X24002919%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41923643/
- https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-146/
- https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1321-letters/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/science/space/mars-nasa-fungus-contamination.html
- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260507.html
- https://biol445.myportfolio.com/
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