316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.

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

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Links for this episode

• Gut microbiota and food addiction (Probiotics)
• Blautia may have probiotic properties (Gut Microbes)
• Blautia wexlerae ameliorates obesity and type 2 diabetes (Nat Commun)
• Phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors (Science)
• What is a bacteriocin? (Front Micro)
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