Matters Microbial

Matters Microbial #129: Microbes Reveal How Evolution Might Replay

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #129: Microbes Reveal How Evolution Might Replay May 5, 2026 Today Dr. Michael Travisano, Distinguished McKnight University Profes...

Matters Microbial #128: C. diff from Nursery to Nursing Home

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #128: C. diff from Nursery to Nursing Home April 20, 2026 Today Dr. Joseph Zackular, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laborato...

Matters Microbial #127: Even Your Navel Has Them — An Archaea‑Whisperer Explores

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #127: Even Your Navel Has Them — An Archaea‑Whisperer Explores April 7, 2026 Today Dr. Nahui Medina-Chavez, postdoctoral schol...

Matters Microbial #126: Squid Eggs Come With Antifungal Frosting

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #126: Squid Eggs Come With Antifungal Frosting March 24, 2026 Today Dr. Spencer Nyholm, Professor in the Department of Molecular a...

Matters Microbial #125: Antibiotics, Streptomyces and Evolution

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #125: Antibiotics, Streptomyces and Evolution March 15, 2026 Today Professor Paul Hoskisson, Royal Academy of Engineering Research...

Matters Microbial #124: How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #124: How Bacteria Die in the Microbial Marine Forest February 24, 2026 Today Dr. Anne Thompson, Research Assistant Professor in t...

Matters Microbial #123: What Whooping Cough Can Teach US

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #123: What Whooping Cough Can Teach Us February 6, 2026 Today Dr. Seema Mattoo, Associate Professor of Biological Scienc...

Matters Microbial #122: Jumbo Marine Viruses and Nanoscopic Warfare

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #122: Jumbo Marine Viruses and Nanoscopic Warfare January 26, 2026   Today Dr. Alaina Weinheimer, Simons Foundation Pos...

Matters Microbial #121: Phollowing Phage in the Gut Microbiome

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #121: Phollowing Phage in the Gut Microbiome January 7, 2026 Today Dr. Liz de Ora Ortiz, postdoctoral scholar in the Secor Laborat...

Matters Microbial #120: Bacterial Interactions among Oral Microbes

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #120: Bacterial Interactions among Oral Microbes December 29, 2025 For Episode 120, we welcome Dr. Batbileg Bor, Associate Profess...

Matters Microbial #119: Investigating Microbial "Dark Matter"

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #119: Investigating Microbial "Dark Matter" December 22, 2025 Today Dr. Julia Willett, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mi...

Matters Microbial #118: Biofilms Everywhere!

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #118: Biofilms Everywhere! December 15, 2025 Today Dr. Matthew Fields, Director of the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana S...

Matters Microbial #117: Cancer Virus Hunters and Molecular Biology

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #117: Cancer Virus Hunters and Molecular Biology December 8, 2025 Today Dr. Gregory Morgan, Professor in the School of Humanities,...

Matters Microbial #116: Microbes in the Concrete Instead of the Abstract

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #116: Microbes in the Concrete Instead of the Abstract November 14, 2025 Today Dr. Julie Maresca, Associate Professor in the Depar...

Matters Microbial #115: Suiting Up Against Bacterial Predators!

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #115: Suiting Up Against Bacterial Predators! November 6, 2025 Today Dr. Hannah Ledvina, Assistant Professor in the Molecular, Cel...

Matters Microbial #114: A Tongue-n-Cheek Look at the Oral Microbiome

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #114: A Tongue-n-Cheek Look at the Oral Microbiome October 31, 2025 Today Dr. Jessica Mark Welch, Professor at the ADA Forsyth Ins...

Matters Microbial #113: Microbes That Swim, Swarm, Stand Up—and 'Walk'

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #113: Microbes That Swim, Swarm, Stand Up—and 'Walk' October 24, 2025 Today Dr. Joshua Shrout, Professor of Civil and Environmen...

Matters Microbial #112: Bacterial Size, Stress, and Antibiotic Resistance

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #112: Bacterial Size, Stress, and Antibiotic Resistance October 17, 2025 Today Dr. Petra Levin, the George and Irene Freiberg Prof...

Matters Microbial #111: Shocking Tales of Metal-Loving Microbes

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #111: Shocking Tales of Metal-Loving Microbes October 10, 2025 Today Dr. Jeff Gralnick, Professor of the Department of Plant and M...

Matters Microbial #110: Enumerating the Microbiome

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #110: Enumerating the Microbiome October 3, 2025 Today Dr. Sean Gibbons, Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology...

Matters Microbial #109: Bat-Crazy About Rabies

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #109: Bat-Crazy About Rabies September 26, 2025 In honor of World Rabies Day, Dr. Rodney Rohde, Regents Professor at Texas State U...

Matters Microbial #108: Neanderthal Oral Health, Ancient Bacteria and DNA

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #108: Neanderthal Oral Health, Ancient Bacteria and DNA September 19, 2025 Today, Dr. Laura Weyrich, Associate Professor of Anthro...

Matters Microbial #107: Listeria Sprouting Hysteria?

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #107: Listeria Sprouting Hysteria? September 11, 2025 Today, Dr. Lisa Gorski, a microbiologist and food safety consultant recently...

Matters Microbial #106: Cells Without Walls – Full-Frontal Bacteria

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #106: Cells Without Walls – Full-Frontal Bacteria September 6, 2025 Today, Dr. Dennis Claessen of Leiden University's Institute ...

Matters Microbial #105: Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #105:  Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea August 29, 2025 Let's take a deep dive into chemoautotrophy!  Today, Dr. Roxanne ...

Matters Microbial #104: Antibiotic "Tolerance" and Biofilms

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #104: Antibiotic "Tolerance" and Biofilms August 21, 2025 Today, Dr. Boo Shan Tseng, Associate Professor at the University of Neva...

Matters Microbial #103: Giant Bacteria and Bigger Questions

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #103: Giant Bacteria and Bigger Questions August 14, 2025 Today, Dr. Jean-Marie Volland, Assistant Professor at the University of ...

Matters Microbial #102: Teaching Through the Issues with Microbes!

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #102: Teaching Through the Issues with Microbes! July 31, 2025 Today, Dr. Davida Smyth, Professor of Biology and Deputy Director o...

Matters Microbial #101: Electrifying News about Cable Bacteria

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #101: Electrifying News about Cable Bacteria July 25, 2025 Today, Dr. Nicole Geerlings from the University of Vienna in Austria jo...

Matters Microbial #100: What's the Buzz on Phage Therapy for Honeybees?

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #100: What's the Buzz on Phage Therapy for Honeybees? July 14, 2025 Today, Dr. Heather Hendrickson from the University of Canterbu...

Matters Microbial #99: Albert Kluyver—Microbial Unity and Diversity in Metabolism

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #99: Albert Kluyver—Microbial Unity and Diversity in Metabolism July 10, 2025 Today, Dr. Dianne Newman of Caltech joins the #Qua...

Matters Microbial #98: Nesting Dolls of Endosymbiosis

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #98: Nesting Dolls of Endosymbiosis July 3, 2025 Today, Dr. John McCutcheon of Arizona State University joins the #QualityQuorum t...

Matters Microbial #97: Microbes in the Air (Way)

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #97: Microbes in the Air (Way) June 27, 2025 Today, Dr. Ari Kozik, Assistant Professor at the University of MIchigan joins the #Qu...

Matters Microbial #96: Molecular Microbiology in High Schools

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #96: Molecular Microbiology in High Schools June 19, 2025 Today, Bob Kuhn, biotechnology teacher at the Fulton County Schools Inno...

Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story June 12, 2025 Today, Dr. Tory Hendry, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Cornel...

Matters Microbial #94: One Health and Microbiomes Everywhere

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #94: One Health and Microbiomes Everywhere June 5, 2025 Today, Dr. Seth Bordenstein and Dr. Nichole Ginnan of Pennsylvania State U...

Matters Microbial #93: Preventing Antibiotic Resistance

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #93: Preventing Antibiotic Resistance May 29, 2025 Today's episode was an in-person podcast at the University of Texas Austin!  D...

Matters Microbial #92: Microbial Metabolism in Extreme Places

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #92: Microbial Metabolism in Extreme Places May 22, 2025 Today, Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and...

Matters Microbial #91: You Are What Your Genes Feed Your Microbiome

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #91: You Are What Your Genes Feed Your Microbiome May 16, 2025 Today, Dr. Emily Davenport, Assistant Professor in the Department o...

Matters Microbial #90: Using Soil Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #90: Using Soil Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture May 8, 2025 Today, Dr. Francisco Dini Andreote, Assistant Professor of Phyt...

Matters Microbial #89: Can AI Point Us to New Antibiotics

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #89: Can AI Point Us to New Antibiotics May 1, 2025 Today, Dr. Amir Mitchell, Associate Professor of Systems Biology at the Univer...

Matters Microbial #88: Microbial Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #88: Microbial Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis April 24, 2025 Today, Dr. Reed Stubbendieck, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & ...

Matters Microbial #87: Dietary Protein and the Microbiome

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #87: Dietary Protein and the Microbiome April 17, 2025 Today, Dr. Manuel Kleiner, Associate Professor of Microbiomes and Complex M...

Matters Microbial #86: Intraterrestrials — the Strangest Life on, and in, the Earth

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #86: Intraterrestrials — the Strangest Life on, and in, the Earth April 10, 2025 Today, Dr. Karen Lloyd, Professor of Earth Scie...

Matters Microbial #85: The Microbiomes of Hawai'ian Seascapes

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #85: The Microbiomes of Hawai'ian Seascapes April 3, 2025 Today, Dr. Rosie 'Anolani Alegado of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa...

Matters Microbial #84: Detecting Pathogens — and Worse — in Wastewater

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #84: Detecting Pathogens — and Worse — in Wastewater March 27, 2025 Today, Dr. Rachel Poretsky, Associate Professor of Biolog...

Matters Microbial #83: Helicobacter — Passing the Acid Test

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #83: Helicobacter — Passing the Acid Test March 19, 2025 Today, Dr. Karen Ottemann, Professor and Chair of the Department of Mic...

Matters Microbial #82: Melanin, Fungi, and Global Warming

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #82: Melanin, Fungi, and Global Warming March 13, 2025 Today, the impressive Dr. Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins University ret...

Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates March 5, 2025 Today, Dr. Brianne Barker, Associate Professor of the Biology Depa...

Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists?

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists? February 27, 2025 Today, Dr. Marc Chevrette, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Cell...

Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat February 20, 2025 Today, Dr. Angela Oliverio, Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Syra...

Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis February 13, 2025 Today, Dr Ariane Briegel, Professor and head of the Integ...

Matters Microbial #77: It's a Germ-Eat-Germ World!

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #77: It's a Germ-Eat-Germ World! February 6, 2025 Today, Dr Laura Williams, Director of Undergraduate Research at Georgia Institut...

Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #76:  Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes! January 29, 2025 Today, Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Un...

Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?   January 22, 2025 Today, Dr. Darrell Cockburn, Associate Professor of Food Science at P...

Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation January 16, 2025 Today, Dr. Jessica Coates of the Biology Department at Spelman...

Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome January 8, 2025 Today, Dr. Travis Wiles, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at t...

Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water?

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water? January 2, 2025 Today, Dr. Ameet Pinto, Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in Civil and Environmenta...

Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment December 25, 2024 Ever wonder what's growing on your toothbrush? Today, Dr. Erica Hartmann...

Matters Microbial #70: Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #70: Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance December 18, 2024 Today, Dr. Dr. Erika Ganda, Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microb...

Matters Microbial #69: Can Eating Microbes Make You Healthy?

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #69: Can Eating Microbes Make You Healthy? December 11, 2024 Today, Dr. Maria Marco, Professor of Food Science and Technology at t...

Matters Microbial #68: Social Evolution in Viruses

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #68: Social Evolution in Viruses December 4, 2024 Today, Dr. Sam Díaz-Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular G...

Matters Microbial #67: Chemical Communication in Microbe Symbioses

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #67: Chemical Communication in Microbe Symbioses November 27, 2024 Today, Dr. Marcy Balunas, Associate Professor of Microbiology a...

Matters Microbial #66: Digesting the Science of Fermented Foods

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #66: Digesting the Science of Fermented Foods November 20, 2024 Today, Dr. Ben Wolfe, Associate Professor of Biology at Tufts Univ...

Matters Microbial #65: Squishy Tissues and Hints from Archaea

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Alex Bisson, Assistant Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how he and his collaborators use a ...

Matters Microbial #64: Making Sense of the Microbiome

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Patrick Schloss, Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, joins ...

Matters Microbial #63: A Symphony of Cyanobacteria

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #63: A Symphony of Cyanobacteria October 30, 2024 Today, Dr. Nathan Algren, Associate Professor of Biology at Clark University, jo...

Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells October 23, 2024 Today, Dr. Jolene Ramsey, of ...

Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy October 17, 2024 Today, Dr. Paul Carini, of the Environmental Science depar...

Matters Microbial #60: Influenza, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Fortunate Mistakes

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #60: Influenza, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Fortunate Mistakes October 9, 2024 Today, Dr. Adam Lauring of the University of Michigan...

Matters Microbial #59: Some (Microbes) Like It Hot—Discussions with the Thermal Biology Institute

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #59: Some (Microbes) Like It Hot—Discussions with the Thermal Biology Institute October 3, 2024 Today is an unusual episode of...

Matters Microbial #58: The Virosphere from Coral Reefs to Other Worlds

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Cynthia Silveira of the Department of Biology at Miami University joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her research team's efforts to exp...

Matters Microbial #57: Pitting Metabolic Inhibitors Against Viruses

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #57: Pitting Metabolic Inhibitors Against Viruses September 18, 2024 Today, Dr. Tracie Delgado of the Biology Department at Seattl...

Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution September 11, 2024 Today, Dr. Carolina Martinez Gutierrez of the Department of Earth Sci...

Matters Microbial #55: An accidental microbiologist

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, the award winning and affable Dr. David Westenberg of the Missouri University of Science and Technology joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss his...

Matters Microbial #54: In the shadow of giant viruses

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Assistant Professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami jo...

Matters Microbial #53: Heavy metal microbes!

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Jennifer Goff of the Department of Chemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her ...

Matters Microbial #52: A relationship between the microbiome and nasopharyngeal cancer?

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Justine Debelius of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her fascinating work relating t...

Matters Microbial #51: From Legionella to mentoring to outreach

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Michele Swanson, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Michigan,  joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the her journey to microbio...

Matters Microbial #50: One versus many, the evolution of multicellularity

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Will Ratcliff of the Georgia Institute of Technology joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the fascinating work his group has done exploring ...

Matters Microbial #49: Microbes and Macrobes: Always Interconnected

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai of the California Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her philosophy of the future of biology...

Matters Microbial #48: Many are bright but few are chosen

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Mark Mandel, Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the res...

Matters Microbial #47: A lifetime enamored with microbes

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Roberto Kolter, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Harvard University (and past President of the American Society for Microbiology), joi...

Matters Microbial #46: Parsley, Sage, Cholera, and Thyme with Nkrumah Grant

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Nkrumah Grant, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joins the Quality Quorum today to dis...

Matters Microbial #45: CU Later Microbes: Copper as an Antimicrobial Agent!

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Michael Schmidt of This Week in Microbiology and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology of the Medical University of South Carolina, join...

Matters Microbial #44: Labs, Labs, Congress, and Classrooms!

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Kimberly Walker, Assistant Professor and Director of Medical Diagnostics at the University of Delaware, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss...

Matters Microbial #43: New Archaea from old habitats

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the central importance of archaea to our knowledge of ...

Matters Microbial #42: Many paths to microbiology with Jessica Buchser

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Jessica Buchser, graduate of West Chester University and entering PhD student at Pennsylvania State University joins the #QualityQuorum to disc...

Matters Microbial #41: Giant Bacteria: Not All Are Small! with Esther Angert

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Esther Angert of Cornell University joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the role her research collaborators have had studying truly giganti...

Matters Microbial #40: Using THOR's hammer to investigate microbial communities

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Jo Handelsman of the University of Wisconsin Madison and Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery joins the #QualityQuorum to disc...

Matters Microbial #39: Global flatulence: Mysterious Archaea and methane

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Geo Santiago-Martinez, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Microbiology at the University of Connecticut joins the #Quali...

Matters Microbial #38: Microbes, cheese, and Brie-ond!

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Rachel Dutton, Science Resident at the Astera Institute in Berkeley, California, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the complex (and tasty...

Matters Microbial #37: Wolbachia and STEM: Two symbioses!

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Sarah Bordenstein, Associate Research Professor of Biology & Entomology at Penn State University and Director of Discover the Microbes Within! ...

Matters Microbial #36: Leafy microbial strangers with benefits

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Jeri Barak of the University of Wisconsin Madison joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about how various microbes (some of which can cause dise...

Matters Microbial #35: Clostridioides difficile: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Vincent Young of the University of Michigan Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Division in Ann Arbor, joins the #Qualit...

Matters Microbial #34: Artificial gut feelings: Gut microbes and the ECM

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Ana Maria Porras of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about her work ...

Matters Microbial #33: Ancient Fats in Modern Microbes with Paula Welander

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Paula Welander, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University (and #DocMartian #4) joins the #QualityQuo...

Matters Microbial #32: What's bugging ants, microbially speaking?

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Manu Ramalho of West Chester University in Pennsylvania joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wonderful world of ants, their microbiomes,...

Matters Microbial #31: Spirochetes do things...differently

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Brian Stevenson of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss a twisty twirling form of life, spiro...

Matters Microbial #30: Deep (Marine Microbial) Thoughts with Jennifer Biddle

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Dr. Jennifer Biddle of the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss deep microbial...