219: Commensal for a healthy skin

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TWiM discusses eradicating racism in academia and STEM, and a peptide from commensal bacteria that protects skin from damage caused by MRSA</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of TWiM</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "http://rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org/blog/equity-power-responsibility-academic-research/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Responsibility</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in academic research</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Improving</span> <a href= "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789160/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> equity</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in faculty hiring (MBoC)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.shutdownstem.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">#ShutDownSTEM</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00172-20"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Peptide protects skin</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">from microbial damage (AAC)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agr</span> <a href= "https://mbio.asm.org/content/mbio/10/4/e00796-19.full.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> phase variants</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">S. aureus</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(mBio)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">S. aureus</span></em> <a href= "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057012/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> quorum sensing</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">system (BMC Res Notes)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">COVID-19 joins</span> <a href= "https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/3/e00812-20"><span style= "font-we