All Episodes

Matters Microbial #129: Microbes Reveal How Evolution Might Replay

Matters Microbial #128: C. diff from Nursery to Nursing Home

Matters Microbial #127: Even Your Navel Has Them — An Archaea‑Whisperer Explores

Matters Microbial #126: Squid Eggs Come With Antifungal Frosting

Matters Microbial #125: Antibiotics, Streptomyces and Evolution

Matters Microbial #124: How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest

Matters Microbial #123: What Whooping Cough Can Teach US

Matters Microbial #122: Jumbo Marine Viruses and Nanoscopic Warfare

Matters Microbial #121: Phollowing Phage in the Gut Microbiome

Matters Microbial #120: Bacterial Interactions among Oral Microbes

Matters Microbial #119: Investigating Microbial "Dark Matter"

Matters Microbial #118: Biofilms Everywhere!

Matters Microbial #117: Cancer Virus Hunters and Molecular Biology

Matters Microbial #116: Microbes in the Concrete Instead of the Abstract

Matters Microbial #115: Suiting Up Against Bacterial Predators!

Matters Microbial #114: A Tongue-n-Cheek Look at the Oral Microbiome

Matters Microbial #113: Microbes That Swim, Swarm, Stand Up—and 'Walk'

Matters Microbial #112: Bacterial Size, Stress, and Antibiotic Resistance

Matters Microbial #111: Shocking Tales of Metal-Loving Microbes

Matters Microbial #110: Enumerating the Microbiome

Matters Microbial #109: Bat-Crazy About Rabies

Matters Microbial #108: Neanderthal Oral Health, Ancient Bacteria and DNA

Matters Microbial #107: Listeria Sprouting Hysteria?

Matters Microbial #106: Cells Without Walls – Full-Frontal Bacteria

Matters Microbial #105: Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea

Matters Microbial #104: Antibiotic "Tolerance" and Biofilms

Matters Microbial #103: Giant Bacteria and Bigger Questions

Matters Microbial #102: Teaching Through the Issues with Microbes!

Matters Microbial #101: Electrifying News about Cable Bacteria

Matters Microbial #100: What's the Buzz on Phage Therapy for Honeybees?

Matters Microbial #99: Albert Kluyver—Microbial Unity and Diversity in Metabolism

Matters Microbial #98: Nesting Dolls of Endosymbiosis

Matters Microbial #97: Microbes in the Air (Way)

Matters Microbial #96: Molecular Microbiology in High Schools

Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story

Matters Microbial #94: One Health and Microbiomes Everywhere

Matters Microbial #93: Preventing Antibiotic Resistance

Matters Microbial #92: Microbial Metabolism in Extreme Places

Matters Microbial #91: You Are What Your Genes Feed Your Microbiome

Matters Microbial #90: Using Soil Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture

Matters Microbial #89: Can AI Point Us to New Antibiotics

Matters Microbial #88: Microbial Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis

Matters Microbial #87: Dietary Protein and the Microbiome

Matters Microbial #86: Intraterrestrials — the Strangest Life on, and in, the Earth

Matters Microbial #85: The Microbiomes of Hawai'ian Seascapes

Matters Microbial #84: Detecting Pathogens — and Worse — in Wastewater

Matters Microbial #83: Helicobacter — Passing the Acid Test

Matters Microbial #82: Melanin, Fungi, and Global Warming

Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates

Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists?

Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat

Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis

Matters Microbial #77: It's a Germ-Eat-Germ World!

Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!

Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?

Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation

Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome

Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water?

Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment

Matters Microbial #70: Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance

Matters Microbial #69: Can Eating Microbes Make You Healthy?

Matters Microbial #68: Social Evolution in Viruses

Matters Microbial #67: Chemical Communication in Microbe Symbioses

Matters Microbial #66: Digesting the Science of Fermented Foods

Matters Microbial #65: Squishy Tissues and Hints from Archaea

Matters Microbial #64: Making Sense of the Microbiome

Matters Microbial #63: A Symphony of Cyanobacteria

Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells

Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy

Matters Microbial #60: Influenza, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Fortunate Mistakes

Matters Microbial #59: Some (Microbes) Like It Hot—Discussions with the Thermal Biology Institute

Matters Microbial #58: The Virosphere from Coral Reefs to Other Worlds

Matters Microbial #57: Pitting Metabolic Inhibitors Against Viruses

Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution

Matters Microbial #55: An accidental microbiologist

Matters Microbial #54: In the shadow of giant viruses

Matters Microbial #53: Heavy metal microbes!

Matters Microbial #52: A relationship between the microbiome and nasopharyngeal cancer?

Matters Microbial #51: From Legionella to mentoring to outreach

Matters Microbial #50: One versus many, the evolution of multicellularity

Matters Microbial #49: Microbes and Macrobes: Always Interconnected

Matters Microbial #48: Many are bright but few are chosen

Matters Microbial #47: A lifetime enamored with microbes

Matters Microbial #46: Parsley, Sage, Cholera, and Thyme with Nkrumah Grant

Matters Microbial #45: CU Later Microbes: Copper as an Antimicrobial Agent!

Matters Microbial #44: Labs, Labs, Congress, and Classrooms!

Matters Microbial #43: New Archaea from old habitats

Matters Microbial #42: Many paths to microbiology with Jessica Buchser

Matters Microbial #41: Giant Bacteria: Not All Are Small! with Esther Angert

Matters Microbial #40: Using THOR's hammer to investigate microbial communities

Matters Microbial #39: Global flatulence: Mysterious Archaea and methane

Matters Microbial #38: Microbes, cheese, and Brie-ond!

Matters Microbial #37: Wolbachia and STEM: Two symbioses!

Matters Microbial #36: Leafy microbial strangers with benefits

Matters Microbial #35: Clostridioides difficile: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

Matters Microbial #34: Artificial gut feelings: Gut microbes and the ECM

Matters Microbial #33: Ancient Fats in Modern Microbes with Paula Welander

Matters Microbial #32: What's bugging ants, microbially speaking?

Matters Microbial #31: Spirochetes do things...differently

Matters Microbial #30: Deep (Marine Microbial) Thoughts with Jennifer Biddle

Matters Microbial #29: Exploring cave microbiology and career paths with Hazel Barton

Matters Microbial #28: From Lizard Cloacal Microbes to CPG in the Business Sector with Franny Gilman

Matters Microbial #27: Broccoli sprouts, gut health, and microbes for all with Dr. Sue Ishaq

Matters Microbial #26: Cultivating the hidden microbial majority

Matters Microbial #25: Gut feelings about phage and the gut microbiome

Matters Microbial #24: It takes a quorum to cause disease

Matters Microbial #23: Fungi: Cool Friends and Looming Foes

Matters Microbial #22: A microbial path through the graduate school maze with Lauren Augusta

Matters Microbial #21: Microbes, mermaids and coral reefs with Chris Kellogg

Matters Microbial #20: Who You Calling Weird? Diving into Microbes at the Bottom of the Ocean

Matters Microbial #19: You are what you(r microbes) eat

Matters Microbial #18: The Perfect Predator: Why Phage is Rage

Matters Microbial #17: Evolution in action for everyone with Vaughn Cooper

Matters Microbial #16: What's bugging the fruit fly microbiome?

Matters Microbial #15: A Gut Feeling About Precision Medicine

Matters Microbial #14: An inordinate fondness for viruses with Jack Gilbert

Matters Microbial #13: (Magnetically) attractive bacteria with Arash Komeili

Matters Microbial #12: Shedding light on symbiosis with Ruth Isenberg

Matters Microbial #11: Viruses from hell with Ken Stedman

Matters Microbial #10: Bacterial fight club

Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen science, and tools for all

Matters Microbial #8: Who goes there? Going deep in the Pine Barrens with Lauren Seyler

Matters Microbial #7: Microbiology from the refrigerator with Elinne Becket

Matters Microbial #6: What's the buzz on honeybee microbes? With Irene Newton

Matters Microbial #5: Mothers, Microbes, and Dung Beetles

Matters Microbial #4: Extreme Microbial Closeups: Cryo-EM and Fine Structure of Microbes with Ariane Briegel

Matters Microbial #3: How much of you is microbial? With Seth Bordenstein

Matters Microbial #2: Shock and awe microbiology and a chat with Mya Breitbart

Matters Microbial #1: A microbiological introduction and a chat with Vincent Racaniello