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microTalk — 88 episodes

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When E. Coli's Day Is Gone and It Wants To Ride on…Cocaine. With Vanessa Sperandio, Ph.D.

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You Gotta Be Squid-ding Me!: microTalk with Ned Ruby and Margaret McFall-Ngai

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How Microbiology Is Evolving: Insights from ASM Leadership and Researchers

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Weed My Lips: Cannabis Viroids with Dr. Zamir Punja

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Archaea for Me-a With Dr. Alexandre Bisson

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Eradication of the Guinea Worm with Adam Weiss

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CHARMing the Superbugs with Dr. Victor Nizet

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300 Days in Space with Astronaut Dr. Kate Rubins

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Gut on a Chip: Human Gastrointestinal Organoids with Dr. Hyun Jung Kim

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Plague, Anthrax, and ASM, Oh My! With ASM president Virginia Miller and president-elect Theresa Koehler

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Microbes to the Rescue! Bioremediation with Dr. John Coates

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The Evolution Revolution with Dr. Vaughn Cooper

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Adversary o' Malaria with Dr. Debopam Chakrabarti

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"Ex" Marks the Spot: Exosomes with Ramin Hakami

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Coxiella burnettii with Stacey Gilk

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Chytridiomycosis: Amphibians and Fungal Disease with Anat Belasen

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The Largest Bacterium, Thiomargarita Magnifica, with Jean-Marie Volland

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Vibrio vulnificus (and other Vibrios) with Salvador Almagro-Moreno

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Get a Whiff of Cdiff: A Discussion About C. difficile with Vincent Young

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A Career in the Time of Cholera: A Discussion with ASM Lifetime Achievement Award Winner John Mekalanos

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"Crypto" currency: Cryptosporidium with Boris Striepen

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067: The Chicken Runs: Campylobacter Diarrhea with David Hendrixson

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066: The Eyes Have It: Corneal Infections with Eric Pearlman

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065: Cheese Please! The Cheese Microbiome with Rachel Dutton

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064: Fun(gus) in the Sun(gus): Fungal Infections with Neil Clancy

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063: Tick Schtick: Lyme Disease with Tim Sellati

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062: The Rules of Attraction: Bacterial Magnetosomes with Arash Komeili

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061: TB or not TB? That is the Question… for Bill Jacobs

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060: Geezer Germs: Geriatric Bacteria with Steve Finkel

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059: All Hail Females: Women in Science with Joan Bennett

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058: Biotechnology Ideology: Genomics Technologies with Joe DeRisi

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057: Undone by Fungi Again: The Mycobiome with Mahmoud Ghannoum

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056: Lilliputian Evolution: Bacterial Evolution with Stanley Maloy

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055: The Age of Phage: Phage Therapy with Graham Hatfull

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054: Urine Trouble: Urinary Tract Infections with Harry Mobley

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053: Vibri-Oh-No! - "Flesh Eating" Vibrios with Karla Satchell

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052: Goodbye Guinea Worm: Guinea Worm Eradication with Adam Weiss

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051: Microbes in Hot Water: Climate Change with Sanghoon Kang

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050: Into the Matrix: Fungal Biofilms with David Andes

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049: Trivia About Chlamydia: Sexually Transmitted Disease with Mary Weber

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048: Zebrafish in the Time of Cholera: Vibrio cholerae with Brian Hammer

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047: Urinary Commentary: UTIs and Proteus mirabilis with Karine Gibbs

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046: The Scoop on Whoop: Bordetella with Jeff Miller

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045: Tiptoe Through the Crypto: Cryptococcus with Paul de Figueiredo

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044: Giant Viruses, Rickettsia, and Whipple, Oh My! A Discussion with Didier Raoult

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043: Native Alaskan Perspectives in Microbiology with Kat Milligan-Myhre

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042: Undone by Fungi: Mucormycosis with Ashraf Ibrahim

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041: There's a Germ in my Worm: Bacterial-driven Metamorphosis with Nick Shikuma

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040: Public Health in the Time of Cholera: Enteric Disease Intervention with Christine Marie George

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039: Let's Veto Mosquitoes: Malaria with Gunnar Mair

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038: Babbling Bacteria: A Discussion About Quorum Sensing with Marvin Whiteley

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037: Coral Reefs in Crisis! A Discussion with Rebecca Vega-Thurber

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036: Viruses from Heaven and Hell: A Discussion with Ken Stedman

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035: Flip-flops and Surfboards made from Algae? Renewable algae-derived biomaterials with Steve Mayfield

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034: Disease Expertise with the Big Cheese: CDC Deputy Director Anne Schuchat

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033: Mr. CRISPR, Kevin Doxzen, Discusses the Revolutionary Gene Editing Technology

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032: The Wrath of Maria: Puerto Rican Microbiologists Discuss Post-Hurricane Science

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031: Content in Cement: Julie Maresca Discusses the Concrete Microbiome

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030: Mycology Loquacity: Carol Kumamoto Gets Candid about Candida

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029: Prevent What's Preventable: Vaccine Preventable Diseases with Cherise Rohr-Allegrini

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028: You Gotta Be Squidding Me! A Discussion with Ned Ruby

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027: Do the Bugs in your Gut Cause Parkinson's Disease? A Discussion with Sarkis Mazmanian

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026: Bugs in Space! High School Students Send a Microbiology Experiment on the ISS

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025: It's a Fungal Jungle Out There! A Discussion with Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk

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024: Time for Lyme: A Discussion with Dr. Steve Norris

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023: There's Another Fungus Among Us! With Dr. Andrew Alspaugh

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022: Allan Hall Distills Down the Art of Fermentation

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021: Ticks and Sandflies Suck!

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020: The Promise of Stem Cells: Travis Block Communicates Science

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019: Inside the Hot Zone: A Discussion of Ebola Virus and BSL4 containment with Anthony Griffiths and Ricardo Carrion

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018: Talking Bioscience with Hizzoner: A Discussion with Mayor Ron Nirenberg

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017: David Blehert sends out the Bat Signal: White Nose Fungus is Among Us!

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016: Cdiff Infections and Fecal Transplants with Jimmy Ballard

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015: Beware of bloodsuckers! What's the buzz about mosquitoes?

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014: Parasites, Vampire Bats, and Science, Oh My! A Discussion with Dan Riskin

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013: Science Not Silence: A Discussion with Jonathan Berman, March for Science Organizer

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012: There's a Fungus Among Us! – Damian Krysan, M.D., Ph.D.

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011: Sick as a…plant? Yep, plants get viruses too – David Bisaro, Ph.D

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010: Extra! Extra! Hear All About It! Science Reporting in the Age of Fake News – Alex Berezow, Ph.D

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009: Whoop Whoop! The Pertussis Vaccine – Rajendar Deora, Ph.D

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008: Murderous Microbes: The Type Six Secretion System – Stefan Pukatzki, Ph.D.

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007: Gnarly! The Surfer Biome Project – Mr. Cliff Kapono

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006: Blood-sucking Disease: Malaria and the Microbiome – Nathan Schmidt, Ph.D

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005: Selenium for the Millenium: A Whooping Trace Element – Girish Kirimanjeswara, Ph.D

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004: California Cows in Crisis: Epizootic Bovine Abortion – Jeffrey Stott, Ph.D

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003: The Superbug Crisis: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria – Mike Gilmore, Ph.D

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002: Shining a Light on Diabetes: New Developments in Treating Diabetic Vision Loss – Timothy Kern, Ph.D

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001: Global Health Starts Locally – Jason Rosenfeld, MPH