231: It’s a microbe-eat-microbe world

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of a</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">predatory bacterium appropriately named Vampirococcus lugosii, and Elio reveals how bacteria can be used on the International Space Station to efficiently extract rare earth elements in microgravity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Space Station</span> <a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19276-w"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">biomining</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Nat Comm)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Reductive evolution in a</span> <a href= "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.10.374967v1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> predatory bacterium</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(bioRxiv)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by</span> <a href= "http://ronaldjenkees.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ronald Jenkees</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and used with permission.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Send your microbiology questions and comments to</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">twim@microbe.tv</span></p> <p> </p>