TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt

Michael and Vincent present Spotlights, brief reviews of classic papers in the Journal of Bacteriology, and explain how a single bacterial species can reverse autism-like social deficits in the offspring of obese mice.

• Protein secretion in E. coli (J Bacteriol)
• Plague pathogenesis (J Bacteriol)
• Reversal of diet induced social defects (Cell)
• Letters read on TWiM 131

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

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