259: Sea Sawdust

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Martin returns to TWiM for a discussion of the frightening global burden of bacterial antibiotic resistance, and a solution to the problem of daylight nitrogen fixation in a cyanobacterium, despite the incompatibility of nitrogenase with oxygen produced during photosynthesis.</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><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global bacterial</span> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673621027240"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">antimicrobial resistance</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Nat Micro)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cancer</span> <a href= "https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">moon shot</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(NCI)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">When</span> <a href= "https://www.ted.com/talks/maryn_mckenna_what_do_we_do_when_antibiotics_don_t_work_any_more"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">antibiotics don’t work</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(TED)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cyanobacterium buoyancy (Nat Micro)</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 twim@microbe.tv</span></p>