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Meet the Microbiologist — 178 episodes

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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.

6

The Gut Healing Power of Microbes and Cruciferous Vegetables

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Preventing Foodborne Pathogens With Plant-Derived Compounds with Karl Matthews

8

Early Microbial Life with Michael Lynch and Vaughn Cooper

9

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

10

Agnostic Diagnostics and the Future of ASM Health With Dev Mittar

11

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

12

Discovering Fossilized Microbes in Antarctic Ice Cores With Manuel Martinez Garcia

13

Revenge of the Microbes With Brenda Wilson and Brian Ho

14

Binning Singletons With Joseph James

15

Biorisk Assessment and Management With Saeed Khan

16

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

17

When Proteins Become Infectious: Understanding Prion Disease With Neil Mabbott

18

Trillion Dollar Microbes Make the Bioeconomy Go Round With Tim Donohue

19

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

20

Increasing Laboratory Capacity for TB Diagnosis With Aureliana Chambal

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

IBS Biomarkers and Diagnostic Diapers With Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb

25

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

27

Microbial Flavor Profiles for Bread and Wine Production With Kate Howell

28

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

31

The Self-Experimentation of Barry Marshall

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The Career of Tony Fauci

33

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi's Discovery of HIV

34

Permafrost with Devin Drown

35

To Catch a Virus with Marie Landry and John Booss

36

Outbreak Detection with Wun-Ju Shieh

37

Lyme Disease Prevention and Treatment with Linden Hu

38

Tardigrades and Microbial Midwives with Mark O. Martin

39

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

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078: Tuberculosis treatment and mycobacterial genetics with Bill Jacobs

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077: Influenza, politics, and scientific credibility with Ilaria Capua

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076: Evolution of bacterial biofilm populations with Vaughn Cooper

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075: Working with the Microbes in our Drinking and Waste Water with Marylynn Yates

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074: Treating Ebola in America and Fecal Transfers with Colleen Kraft

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073: Biological sex and influenza with Sabra Klein

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072: Microbial diversity of natural ecosystems with Jennifer Martiny

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071: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Advocacy with Peter Hotez

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070: Influenza vaccine and susceptibility with Stacey Schultz-Cherry

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069: Biopreparedness and biosecurity with Gigi Kwik Gronvall

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068: Microbiomes everywhere with Jack Gilbert

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067: MRSA in agriculture and zombie epidemiology with Tara C. Smith

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066: Insect-pathogenic fungi as fertilizers and mosquito control with Raymond St. Leger

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065: Polio Research Breakthroughs with Vincent Racaniello

112

Welcome to Meet the Microbiologist!

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MTS64 - Martin Blaser - Save Our Endangered Germs

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MTS63 - Jeff Gralnick - I Sing the Microbe Electric

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MTS62 - Jessica Green - The Living Air

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MTS61 - Charles Bamforth - Beer: Eight thousand years of biotechnology (39.5 min.)

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MTS60 - Thomas Scott - The Bone-Breaking Virus (29.5 min.)

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MTS59 - Charles Ofria - Digital Life

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MTS58 - David Baker - Crowdsourcing Biology

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MTS57 - Forest Rohwer - Curing the Corals

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MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life

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MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking Microbe

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MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes

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MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap

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MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare Biosphere

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MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel Refineries

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MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast

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MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm

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MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred Years

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MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant

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MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe

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MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It

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MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic Biology

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MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden History

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MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit Us

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MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver Bullet

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MTS41 - Sallie Chisholm - Harvesting the Sun

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MTS40 - John Wooley - Exploring the Protein Universe

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MTS39 - Paul Turner - Pandemic in a Petri Dish

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MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes

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MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers

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MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers

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MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin

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MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines

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MTS33 - Abigail Salyers - The Art of Teaching Science

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MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens

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MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes

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MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines

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MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System

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MTS28 - Joseph DeRisi - New Tech Approaches to Infectious Disease

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MTS27 - Melanie Cushion - Pneumocystis carinii

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MTS26 - Ian Orme - Tuberculosis

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MTS25 - Parisa Ariya - Bioaerosols | The Living Atmosphere

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MTS24 - Jeff Bender - MRSA in Animals

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MTS23 - Jo Handelsman - The Science of Bug Guts

156

MTS22 - David Knipe - Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2)

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MTS21 - Andrew Knoll - Ancient Life and Evolution

158

MTS20 - Roberto Kolter - Bacillus Subtilis and Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms

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MTS19 - Ellen Jo Baron - The Challenges and Rewards of Working in the Developing World

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MTS18 - Elizabeth Edwards - Cleaning Up Solvents in Groundwater

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MTS17 - Stuart Levy, MD - Antibiotic Resistance and Biosecurity

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MTS16 - Paul Keim, Ph.D. - The Science Behind the 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks

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MTS15 - Kathryn Boor - The Science of Foodborne Pathogens

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MTS14 - Moselio Schaechter - Successful Science Blogging and Hunting Mushrooms

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MTS13 - Video Supplement - Proteopedia Video Guide

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MTS13 - Joel Sussman - Proteopedia.org and Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins

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MTS12 - Nancy Keller - Aspergillus and the Fungal Toxin Problem

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MTS11 - Daniel Lew - The Yeast Cell Cycle

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MTS10 - Anthony Maurelli - Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes

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MTS9 - Stanley Falkow - 21st Century Microbe Hunter

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MTS8 - Rachel Whitaker - The Evolution of Sulfolobus

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MTS7 - Anthony Fauci - Managing Infectious Disease on a Global Scale

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MTS6 Bruce Rittmann - Microbes, Waste and Renewable Energy

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MTS5 Brett Finlay - E.coli and the Human Gut

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MTS4 David Relman - The Human Microbiome

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MTS3 Ute Hentschel - Symbiotic Sea Sponges

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MTS2 - Seth Darst - RNA polymerase

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MTS1 Ralph Tanner - The Future of Biofuels