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Meet the Microbiologist — 179 episodes
AI and the Future of Science, Discovery and Trust
The Value of Curiosity-Driven Research: Mechanism Discovery With Glen McGugan
Diagnostics in Action: Telling Microbial Stories
Decoding the Pneumococcal Capsule With Moon Nahm
From Earth to Orbit: Applied and Environmental Microbiology With Veronica Garcia
Unraveling Introns and Expectations With Marlene Belfort, Ph.D.
The Gut Healing Power of Microbes and Cruciferous Vegetables
Preventing Foodborne Pathogens With Plant-Derived Compounds with Karl Matthews
Early Microbial Life with Michael Lynch and Vaughn Cooper
How FMTs, Coprophagia and the Milk Microbiome Inform Wildlife Conservation With Sally Bornbusch
Agnostic Diagnostics and the Future of ASM Health With Dev Mittar
Implementing a National Action Plan to Combat AMR in Pakistan With Afreenish Amir
Discovering Fossilized Microbes in Antarctic Ice Cores With Manuel Martinez Garcia
Revenge of the Microbes With Brenda Wilson and Brian Ho
Binning Singletons With Joseph James
Biorisk Assessment and Management With Saeed Khan
From Hydrothermal Vents to Cold Seeps: How Bacteria Sustain Ocean Life With Nicole Dubilier
When Proteins Become Infectious: Understanding Prion Disease With Neil Mabbott
Trillion Dollar Microbes Make the Bioeconomy Go Round With Tim Donohue
Rabies: The Diabolical Virus With Many Symptoms and Hosts With Rodney Rohde
Increasing Laboratory Capacity for TB Diagnosis With Aureliana Chambal
Good Science, Bad Science and How to Make it Better with Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall
Using AI to Understand How the Gut-Brain Axis Points to Autism With James Morton
Atypical Metabolism of Leishmania and Other Parasitic and Free-Living Protists With Michael Ginger
IBS Biomarkers and Diagnostic Diapers With Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb
Think Fungus Early: Preventing Angioinvasion Via Early Detection With Gary Procop
Moldy Skin, Invasive Aspergillosis and the Rise of Candida auris With Shawn Lockhart
Microbial Flavor Profiles for Bread and Wine Production With Kate Howell
AncientBiotics With Steve Diggle and Freya Harrison
Sending Yeast to the Moon With Jessica Lee
Invisible Extinction: The Loss of Our Microbes with Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Martin Blaser
The Self-Experimentation of Barry Marshall
The Career of Tony Fauci
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi's Discovery of HIV
Permafrost with Devin Drown
To Catch a Virus with Marie Landry and John Booss
Outbreak Detection with Wun-Ju Shieh
Lyme Disease Prevention and Treatment with Linden Hu
Tardigrades and Microbial Midwives with Mark O. Martin
Shark Epidermis Microbiome with Elizabeth Dinsdale
Microbial Culture Collections and the Soil Microbiome with Mallory Choudoir
Neglected Tropical Diseases and Pandemic Prevention With Peter Hotez
133: Vibrio cholerae with Rita Colwell
132: Life Science and Earth Science and Biogeomicrobiology with Denise Akob
131: Powassan virus and tick biology with Marshall Bloom
130: Bioremediation of oil spills with Joel Kostka
129: Arbovirus evolution with Greg Ebel
128: Managing Plant Pathogens Using Streptomyces with Linda Kinkel
127: E. coli and Burkholderia vaccines with Alfredo Torres
126: Placental biology, infection and immunity with Carolyn Coyne
125: Coronavirus Antiviral Drug Discovery with Timothy Sheahan
124: Gastroenteritis Viruses with Mary Estes
123: SAR11 and Other Marine Microbes with Steve Giovannoni
122: Prions and Chronic Wasting Disease with Jason Bartz
121: Microbial Interkingdom Interactions with Deb Hogan
Bonus: Diagnosing C. diff Infections for Optimal Patient Outcomes with Colleen Kraft
120: Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospital Sinks with Amy Mathers
119: Microbiome Diversity and Structural Variation with Ami Bhatt
118: Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections with Jorge Benach
117: Influenza Virus Evolution with Jesse Bloom
116: Citrus Greening and the Microbiome in Diabetes with Graciela Lorca
115: 20 Years of the Lab Response Network with Julie Villanueva
114: Global Public Health with George F. Gao
113: Bacteriophage Interactions in the Gut with Jeremy Barr
112: A Career in Salmonella with Stanley Maloy
111: The Cheese Microbiome with Rachel Dutton
110: Metagenomic Sequencing for Infectious Diseases Diagnostics with Charles Chiu
109: Antimicrobial-Eating Microorganisms and the Resistome with Gautam Dantas
108: Microbes, Heme, and Impossible Burgers with Pat Brown
107: CRISPR, anti-CRISPR, and anti-anti-CRISPR systems with Joe Bondy-Denomy
106: Creepy dreadful wonderful parasites (and a few bacteria) with Bobbi Pritt
105: HPV vaccination with Doug Lowy
104: Burkholderia pseudomallei and the Neglected Tropical Disease Melioidosis with Direk Limmathurotsakul
103: Predicting Spillover Events with Barbara Han
102: HIV vaccines with Dan Barouch
101: Structural Biology Insights into Ebola Virus with Erica Ollmann Saphire
100: It's our 100th Episode! A retrospective into Meet the Microbiologist with Merry Buckley and Carl Zimmer
099: Microbial engineering for biofuels and beyond with Wayne Curtis
098: Insect and human microbial symbionts with Seth Bordenstein
097: The Cool World of Glacial Microbiology with Christine Foreman
096: HIV interaction with the immune system with Mark Connors
095: The Evolution of Virulence with Andrew Read
094: Containing a Nipah virus outbreak with G Arunkumar
093: Biofilms and metagenomic diagnostics in clinical infections with Robin Patel
092: A new type of malaria vaccine utilizing the mosquito immune system with Carolina Barillas-Mury
091: SARS and MERS coronaviruses with Stanley Perlman
090: Using yeast to generate new chocolate and beer flavors with Kevin Verstrepen
089: Using the zebrafish microbiome to study development and the gut-brain axis with John Rawls
088: Using Bacterial Structures as Nanowires with Gemma Reguera
087: Legionnaire's Disease with Michele Swanson
086: Toxoplasma gondii and neuro-invasive disease with Anita Koshy
085: Using DNA technologies to answer epidemiological questions with Jennifer Gardy
084: How viral-bacterial interactions influence viral infection with Julie Pfeiffer
083: Microbial communication via quorum sensing with Pete Greenberg
082: The struggle to study hepatitis C virus with Charlie Rice
081: Developing infectious disease diagnostics with Melissa Miller
080: Implementing One Health with Mathew Muturi
079: Comparative Bacterial Genomics with Dave Rasko
078: Tuberculosis treatment and mycobacterial genetics with Bill Jacobs
077: Influenza, politics, and scientific credibility with Ilaria Capua
076: Evolution of bacterial biofilm populations with Vaughn Cooper
075: Working with the Microbes in our Drinking and Waste Water with Marylynn Yates
074: Treating Ebola in America and Fecal Transfers with Colleen Kraft
073: Biological sex and influenza with Sabra Klein
072: Microbial diversity of natural ecosystems with Jennifer Martiny
071: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Advocacy with Peter Hotez
070: Influenza vaccine and susceptibility with Stacey Schultz-Cherry
069: Biopreparedness and biosecurity with Gigi Kwik Gronvall
068: Microbiomes everywhere with Jack Gilbert
067: MRSA in agriculture and zombie epidemiology with Tara C. Smith
066: Insect-pathogenic fungi as fertilizers and mosquito control with Raymond St. Leger
065: Polio Research Breakthroughs with Vincent Racaniello
Welcome to Meet the Microbiologist!
MTS64 - Martin Blaser - Save Our Endangered Germs
MTS63 - Jeff Gralnick - I Sing the Microbe Electric
MTS62 - Jessica Green - The Living Air
MTS61 - Charles Bamforth - Beer: Eight thousand years of biotechnology (39.5 min.)
MTS60 - Thomas Scott - The Bone-Breaking Virus (29.5 min.)
MTS59 - Charles Ofria - Digital Life
MTS58 - David Baker - Crowdsourcing Biology
MTS57 - Forest Rohwer - Curing the Corals
MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life
MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking Microbe
MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes
MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap
MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare Biosphere
MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel Refineries
MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast
MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm
MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred Years
MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant
MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe
MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It
MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic Biology
MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden History
MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit Us
MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver Bullet
MTS41 - Sallie Chisholm - Harvesting the Sun
MTS40 - John Wooley - Exploring the Protein Universe
MTS39 - Paul Turner - Pandemic in a Petri Dish
MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes
MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers
MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers
MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin
MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines
MTS33 - Abigail Salyers - The Art of Teaching Science
MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens
MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes
MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines
MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System
MTS28 - Joseph DeRisi - New Tech Approaches to Infectious Disease
MTS27 - Melanie Cushion - Pneumocystis carinii
MTS26 - Ian Orme - Tuberculosis
MTS25 - Parisa Ariya - Bioaerosols | The Living Atmosphere
MTS24 - Jeff Bender - MRSA in Animals
MTS23 - Jo Handelsman - The Science of Bug Guts
MTS22 - David Knipe - Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2)
MTS21 - Andrew Knoll - Ancient Life and Evolution
MTS20 - Roberto Kolter - Bacillus Subtilis and Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms
MTS19 - Ellen Jo Baron - The Challenges and Rewards of Working in the Developing World
MTS18 - Elizabeth Edwards - Cleaning Up Solvents in Groundwater
MTS17 - Stuart Levy, MD - Antibiotic Resistance and Biosecurity
MTS16 - Paul Keim, Ph.D. - The Science Behind the 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks
MTS15 - Kathryn Boor - The Science of Foodborne Pathogens
MTS14 - Moselio Schaechter - Successful Science Blogging and Hunting Mushrooms
MTS13 - Video Supplement - Proteopedia Video Guide
MTS13 - Joel Sussman - Proteopedia.org and Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins
MTS12 - Nancy Keller - Aspergillus and the Fungal Toxin Problem
MTS11 - Daniel Lew - The Yeast Cell Cycle
MTS10 - Anthony Maurelli - Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes
MTS9 - Stanley Falkow - 21st Century Microbe Hunter
MTS8 - Rachel Whitaker - The Evolution of Sulfolobus
MTS7 - Anthony Fauci - Managing Infectious Disease on a Global Scale
MTS6 Bruce Rittmann - Microbes, Waste and Renewable Energy
MTS5 Brett Finlay - E.coli and the Human Gut
MTS4 David Relman - The Human Microbiome
MTS3 Ute Hentschel - Symbiotic Sea Sponges
MTS2 - Seth Darst - RNA polymerase
MTS1 Ralph Tanner - The Future of Biofuels