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TWiM #48: It’s all about direction

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Jo Handelsman.

Vincent, Michael, and Jo discuss how subtle gender bias of science faculty favors male students, and the relationship of invasive infection and antibody orientation at bacterial surfaces.

Right click to download TWiM #48 (52 MB .mp3, 76 minutes).

Links for this episode:

• Science faculty's subtle gender biases (PNAS)
• 366 days: Nature's 10
• Antibody orentation and invasive infection (JEM)
• Commentary on antibody and invasive infection (ScienceDaily)
• Figure from Nordenfeldt et at. (JEM)
• Letters read on TWiM 048

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