Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!

Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes! January 29, 2025 Today, Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the exciting work he did during his PhD to unravel a fascinating topic: multicellular magnetotactic microbes! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: George Schaible Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode What is a postdoctoral scholar in microbiology? A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about giant bacteria from Dr. Esther Angert. A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about magnetotactic bacteria from Dr. Arash Komeili. A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about multicellularity in microbes from Dr Will Ratcliff. The transformative Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. An article describing the value of the Microbial Diversity Course. I wrote this blog post on Chlorochromatium aggregatum consortium for Small Things Considered many years ago. The "pink berry" consortium at Woods Hole. A research paper on genetic interactions within the pink berry consortium, coauthored by a former undergraduate researcher of mine, Dr. Danielle Campbell. Yes, I am very proud. A strategy to easily enrich for magnetotactic bacteria from nature. Here is a video that informs and amuses. An early report of multicellular magnetotactic microbes. The research article under discussion in today's podcast. A link to Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler's laboratory website (Dr. Hatzenpichler was the originator of this research, all the way back to his own attending the Microbial Diversity Course.). The deeply strange genome(s) of Achromatium. An introduction to nanoSIMS technology. An introduction to stable isotope probing. The laboratory website of Dr. Jean-Marie Volland, where Dr. Schaible works at UC Santa Barbara Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to [email protected]