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Bacterial Dormancy and Food Microbiology With Xiaonan Lu

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Making Microbes Memorable: Dr. Warhol's Periodic Table of Microbes

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AI and the Future of Science, Discovery and Trust

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The Value of Curiosity-Driven Research: Mechanism Discovery With Glen McGugan

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Diagnostics in Action: Telling Microbial Stories

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Decoding the Pneumococcal Capsule With Moon Nahm

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From Earth to Orbit: Applied and Environmental Microbiology With Veronica Garcia

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Unraveling Introns and Expectations With Marlene Belfort, Ph.D.

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The Gut Healing Power of Microbes and Cruciferous Vegetables

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Preventing Foodborne Pathogens With Plant-Derived Compounds with Karl Matthews

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Early Microbial Life with Michael Lynch and Vaughn Cooper

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How FMTs, Coprophagia and the Milk Microbiome Inform Wildlife Conservation With Sally Bornbusch

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Agnostic Diagnostics and the Future of ASM Health With Dev Mittar

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Implementing a National Action Plan to Combat AMR in Pakistan With Afreenish Amir

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Discovering Fossilized Microbes in Antarctic Ice Cores With Manuel Martinez Garcia

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Revenge of the Microbes With Brenda Wilson and Brian Ho

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Binning Singletons With Joseph James

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Biorisk Assessment and Management With Saeed Khan

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From Hydrothermal Vents to Cold Seeps: How Bacteria Sustain Ocean Life With Nicole Dubilier

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When Proteins Become Infectious: Understanding Prion Disease With Neil Mabbott

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Trillion Dollar Microbes Make the Bioeconomy Go Round With Tim Donohue

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Rabies: The Diabolical Virus With Many Symptoms and Hosts With Rodney Rohde

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Increasing Laboratory Capacity for TB Diagnosis With Aureliana Chambal

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Good Science, Bad Science and How to Make it Better with Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall

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Using AI to Understand How the Gut-Brain Axis Points to Autism With James Morton

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Atypical Metabolism of Leishmania and Other Parasitic and Free-Living Protists With Michael Ginger

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IBS Biomarkers and Diagnostic Diapers With Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb

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Think Fungus Early: Preventing Angioinvasion Via Early Detection With Gary Procop

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Moldy Skin, Invasive Aspergillosis and the Rise of Candida auris With Shawn Lockhart

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Microbial Flavor Profiles for Bread and Wine Production With Kate Howell

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AncientBiotics With Steve Diggle and Freya Harrison

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Sending Yeast to the Moon With Jessica Lee

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Invisible Extinction: The Loss of Our Microbes with Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Martin Blaser

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The Self-Experimentation of Barry Marshall

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The Career of Tony Fauci

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi's Discovery of HIV

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Permafrost with Devin Drown

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To Catch a Virus with Marie Landry and John Booss

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Outbreak Detection with Wun-Ju Shieh

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Lyme Disease Prevention and Treatment with Linden Hu

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Tardigrades and Microbial Midwives with Mark O. Martin

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Shark Epidermis Microbiome with Elizabeth Dinsdale

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Microbial Culture Collections and the Soil Microbiome with Mallory Choudoir

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Neglected Tropical Diseases and Pandemic Prevention With Peter Hotez

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133: Vibrio cholerae with Rita Colwell

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132: Life Science and Earth Science and Biogeomicrobiology with Denise Akob

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131: Powassan virus and tick biology with Marshall Bloom

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130: Bioremediation of oil spills with Joel Kostka

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129: Arbovirus evolution with Greg Ebel

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128: Managing Plant Pathogens Using Streptomyces with Linda Kinkel

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127: E. coli and Burkholderia vaccines with Alfredo Torres

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126: Placental biology, infection and immunity with Carolyn Coyne

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125: Coronavirus Antiviral Drug Discovery with Timothy Sheahan

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124: Gastroenteritis Viruses with Mary Estes

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123: SAR11 and Other Marine Microbes with Steve Giovannoni

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122: Prions and Chronic Wasting Disease with Jason Bartz

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121: Microbial Interkingdom Interactions with Deb Hogan

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Bonus: Diagnosing C. diff Infections for Optimal Patient Outcomes with Colleen Kraft

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120: Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospital Sinks with Amy Mathers

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119: Microbiome Diversity and Structural Variation with Ami Bhatt

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118: Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections with Jorge Benach

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117: Influenza Virus Evolution with Jesse Bloom

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116: Citrus Greening and the Microbiome in Diabetes with Graciela Lorca

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115: 20 Years of the Lab Response Network with Julie Villanueva

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114: Global Public Health with George F. Gao

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113: Bacteriophage Interactions in the Gut with Jeremy Barr

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112: A Career in Salmonella with Stanley Maloy

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111: The Cheese Microbiome with Rachel Dutton

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110: Metagenomic Sequencing for Infectious Diseases Diagnostics with Charles Chiu

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109: Antimicrobial-Eating Microorganisms and the Resistome with Gautam Dantas

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108: Microbes, Heme, and Impossible Burgers with Pat Brown

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107: CRISPR, anti-CRISPR, and anti-anti-CRISPR systems with Joe Bondy-Denomy

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106: Creepy dreadful wonderful parasites (and a few bacteria) with Bobbi Pritt

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105: HPV vaccination with Doug Lowy

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104: Burkholderia pseudomallei and the Neglected Tropical Disease Melioidosis with Direk Limmathurotsakul

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103: Predicting Spillover Events with Barbara Han

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102: HIV vaccines with Dan Barouch

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101: Structural Biology Insights into Ebola Virus with Erica Ollmann Saphire

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100: It's our 100th Episode! A retrospective into Meet the Microbiologist with Merry Buckley and Carl Zimmer

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099: Microbial engineering for biofuels and beyond with Wayne Curtis

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098: Insect and human microbial symbionts with Seth Bordenstein

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097: The Cool World of Glacial Microbiology with Christine Foreman

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096: HIV interaction with the immune system with Mark Connors

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095: The Evolution of Virulence with Andrew Read

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094: Containing a Nipah virus outbreak with G Arunkumar

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093: Biofilms and metagenomic diagnostics in clinical infections with Robin Patel

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092: A new type of malaria vaccine utilizing the mosquito immune system with Carolina Barillas-Mury

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091: SARS and MERS coronaviruses with Stanley Perlman

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090: Using yeast to generate new chocolate and beer flavors with Kevin Verstrepen

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089: Using the zebrafish microbiome to study development and the gut-brain axis with John Rawls

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088: Using Bacterial Structures as Nanowires with Gemma Reguera

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087: Legionnaire's Disease with Michele Swanson

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086: Toxoplasma gondii and neuro-invasive disease with Anita Koshy

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085: Using DNA technologies to answer epidemiological questions with Jennifer Gardy

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084: How viral-bacterial interactions influence viral infection with Julie Pfeiffer

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083: Microbial communication via quorum sensing with Pete Greenberg

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082: The struggle to study hepatitis C virus with Charlie Rice

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081: Developing infectious disease diagnostics with Melissa Miller

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080: Implementing One Health with Mathew Muturi

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079: Comparative Bacterial Genomics with Dave Rasko