TWiM explains how to use microbes to enhance maize yield and reduce corn rootworm damage, and how the human microbiota modulates IgE-mediated reactions to foods through allergen metabolism.

Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, and Michele Swanson.

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

• Harnessing Microbes for Crop Production (Phytobiome J)
• Microbes take on corn rootworm (Science)
• Microbial metabolism of food allergens (Cell Host Microbe)
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TWiM reveals the archaeal roots of eukaryotic life, and a building a gut malabsorption biosensor with bacteria.

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Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

• The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life (PNAS)
• Building a malabsorption biosensor (Cell)
• Engineering gut biosensors with microbes (Nature)
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TWiM discusses the use of bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination, and a conjugal gene drive-like system that efficiently suppresses antibiotic resistance in bacteria.