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Nov 2015
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MWV 101(aduio only) - Profiling the Pogl...

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY
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Vincent take This Week in Microbiology to the University of California, San Diego campus and into the the laboratories of Kit and Joseph Pogliano, where he learns about their work on the bacterial cytoskeleton, sporulation, and the effects of antibiotics on bacterial cells.

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