# 347: At Wound's Edge Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/347-at-wound-s-edge Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/347-at-wound-s-edge.md Podcast: [This Week in Microbiology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713) Published: 2026-01-05T01:56:29+00:00 Episode link: https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-347/ Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM347.mp3?dest-id=53322 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/episodes/347-at-wound-s-edge Duration seconds: 3300 ## Resource TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host microenvironment, and short chain fatty acids produced by commensal microbiota reduces its competitive fitness. Hosts: Michael Schmidt , Michele Swanson and Petra Levin . Guest: Mark O. Martin Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Niche-specific fitness of S. aureus at the wound edge (Nat Comm) Commensal derived short chain fatty acids attenuate S. aureus (mBio) Ditch the term pathogen (Nature) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/episodes/347-at-wound-s-edge/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/347-at-wound-s-edge.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.