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Meet the Microbiologist
Who is microbiology? Meet the Microbiologist (MTM) introduces you to the people who discover, innovate and advance the field of microbiology. Go behind-the-scenes of the microbial sciences with experts in virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and more! Share in their passion for microbe...
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Preventing Foodborne Pathogens With Plant-Derived Compounds with Karl Matthews
Karl Matthews, Ph.D., Professor of Microbial Food Safety at Rutgers University, discusses ways to eliminate pathogens like Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7...
Early Microbial Life with Michael Lynch and Vaughn Cooper
Michael Lynch, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University and Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D., professor of Microbiolo...
How FMTs, Coprophagia and the Milk Microbiome Inform Wildlife Conservation With Sally Bornbusch
Sally Bornbusch, Ph.D., is an NSF postdoctoral fellow in biology conducting microbial ecology research in animal care and conservation at the Smithson...
Agnostic Diagnostics and the Future of ASM Health With Dev Mittar
Dev Mittar, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the ASM Health Scientific Unit discusses the use of metagenomic next generation sequencing to develop agnost...
Implementing a National Action Plan to Combat AMR in Pakistan With Afreenish Amir
Capacity building is a key to everything, I must say, [whether] you talk about the training or development of materials.
I've been enga...
Discovering Fossilized Microbes in Antarctic Ice Cores With Manuel Martinez Garcia
Manuel Martinez Garcia, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology in the Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology Department at the University of Alicante in Sp...
Revenge of the Microbes With Brenda Wilson and Brian Ho
Wilson: “I'll start with actually my Ph.D., which is talking about bacterial antibiotic biosynthesis. And so, I did some work in that arena, but since...
Binning Singletons With Joseph James
Joseph James, biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discusses his career trajectory and the creation of Binning Singletons, a unique...
Biorisk Assessment and Management With Saeed Khan
Saeed Khan, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Molecular Pathology at Dow diagnostic research and reference laboratory and President of the Pakistan Bio...
From Hydrothermal Vents to Cold Seeps: How Bacteria Sustain Ocean Life With Nicole Dubilier
Nicole Dubilier, Ph.D., Director and head of the Symbiosis Department at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, has led numerous reserach c...
When Proteins Become Infectious: Understanding Prion Disease With Neil Mabbott
From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Neil Mabbott, Ph.D., has worked for nearly 2 decades on understanding...
Trillion Dollar Microbes Make the Bioeconomy Go Round With Tim Donohue
Episode Summary Timothy Donohue, Ph.D.—ASM Past President, University of Wisconsin Foundation Fetzer Professor of Bacteriologyand Director of the Grea...
Rabies: The Diabolical Virus With Many Symptoms and Hosts With Rodney Rohde
Rodney Rohde, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor and Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State University discusses the many variants, mam...
Increasing Laboratory Capacity for TB Diagnosis With Aureliana Chambal
ASM's Young Ambassador, Aureliana Chambal, discusses the high incidence of tuberculosis in Mozambique and how improved surveillance can help block dis...
Good Science, Bad Science and How to Make it Better with Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall
The scientific process has the power to deliver a better world and may be the most monumental human achievement. But when it is unethically performed...
Using AI to Understand How the Gut-Brain Axis Points to Autism With James Morton
Dr. James Morton discusses how the gut microbiome modulates brain development and function with specific emphasis on how the gut-brain axis points to...
Atypical Metabolism of Leishmania and Other Parasitic and Free-Living Protists With Michael Ginger
Dr. Michael ginger, Dean of the School of Applied Sciences in the Department of Biological and geographical Science at the University of Huddersfield,...
IBS Biomarkers and Diagnostic Diapers With Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb
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We engineer bacteria to sense particular molecules of in...
Think Fungus Early: Preventing Angioinvasion Via Early Detection With Gary Procop
Dr. Gary Procop, CEO of the American Board of pathology and professor of pathology at the Cleveland Clinic, Lerner School of Medicine discusses the im...
Moldy Skin, Invasive Aspergillosis and the Rise of Candida auris With Shawn Lockhart
From antifungal resistance to disaster microbiology and tales of visible mold growing across the skin of patients following a tornado in Joplin, Misso...
Microbial Flavor Profiles for Bread and Wine Production With Kate Howell
When we start drawing our lens on how microbes produce food for humans, we're coopting a process that happens quite naturally. Here I'll start off tal...
AncientBiotics With Steve Diggle and Freya Harrison
Dr. Steve Diggle, ASM Distinguished Lecturer and Microbiology Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia and Dr. Freya Harri...
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
Dr. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health and director of the Rutgers-based New Jersey Institute for Food, Nu...
The Self-Experimentation of Barry Marshall
Dr. Robert Gaynes, distinguished physician and professor of infectious diseases at Emory University, joins Meet the Microbiologist for the 3rd , and f...
The Career of Tony Fauci
Dr. Robert Gaynes, distinguished physician and professor of infectious diseases at Emory University, joins Meet the Microbiologist for the 2nd episode...
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi's Discovery of HIV
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From the ancient worlds of Hippocrates and Avicenna to t...
Permafrost with Devin Drown
Episode Summary Dr. Devin Drown, associate professor of biology and faculty director of the Institute of Arctic Biology Genomics Core at the Universi...
To Catch a Virus with Marie Landry and John Booss
Dr. Marie Landry, Professor of Laboratory medicine and Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine and Dr. John Booss, former National D...
Outbreak Detection with Wun-Ju Shieh
Dr. Wun-Ju Shieh, worked as a pathologist and infectious diseases expert with the CDC from 1995-2020. He recounts his experiences conducting high risk...
Lyme Disease Prevention and Treatment with Linden Hu
Dr. Linden Hu, Vice Dean for Research at Tufts University in Boston Massachusetts and Paul and Elaine Chervinsky Professor in Immunology, discusses ne...
Tardigrades and Microbial Midwives with Mark O. Martin
Dr. Mark O. Martin, Associate professor of biology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington is a distinguished educator with a well-know...
Shark Epidermis Microbiome with Elizabeth Dinsdale
Dr. Elizabeth Dinsdale, Matthew Flinders Fellow in Marine Biology in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University in Adelaide, Austra...
Microbial Culture Collections and the Soil Microbiome with Mallory Choudoir
Dr. Mallory Choudoir, microbial ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst shares how she leverages microbial cul...
Neglected Tropical Diseases and Pandemic Prevention With Peter Hotez
Peter Hotez talks about the global impact and historical context of neglected tropical diseases. He also highlights important developments in mass dru...
133: Vibrio cholerae with Rita Colwell
Rita Colwell has made major advances in basic and applied microbiology, largely focused on Vibrio cholerae. She describes several lines of evidence fo...
132: Life Science and Earth Science and Biogeomicrobiology with Denise Akob
Denise Akob discusses her studies of microbial communities of contaminated and pristine environments using life science and earth science techniques....
131: Powassan virus and tick biology with Marshall Bloom
How does tick biology influence their ability to transmit disease? Marshall Bloom explains the role of the tick salivary glands in Powassan virus tran...
130: Bioremediation of oil spills with Joel Kostka
What kinds of microorganisms can degrade oil? How do scientists prioritize ecosystems for bioremediation after an oil spill? Joel Kostka discusses his...
129: Arbovirus evolution with Greg Ebel
How do arboviruses evolve as they pass between different hosts? Greg Ebel discusses his research on West Nile virus evolution and what it means for vi...