TWiM explains how competition for nutrients anticipates and potentially mitigate drug side effects on the gut microbiota, and metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance.

Hosts:  Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt and Petra Levin

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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Links for this episode:

• Nutrient competition predicts drug effects on microbiota (Cell)

• Metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance in E coli (Nat Micro)

• Santiago Cano-Muniz

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

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