Matters Microbial
Episodes
Matters Microbial #29: Exploring cave microbiology and career paths with Hazel Barton
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Dr. Hazel Barton, Loper Endowed Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama, joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us about her ...
Matters Microbial #28: From Lizard Cloacal Microbes to CPG in the Business Sector with Franny Gilman
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Dr. Franny Gilman, Principal Scientist at the Kraft-Heinz Company (and another #DocMartian who worked in my undergraduate research lab), join...
Matters Microbial #27: Broccoli sprouts, gut health, and microbes for all with Dr. Sue Ishaq
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Dr. Sue Ishaq of the University of Maine joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us about the relationship between what we eat and our microbes, as we...
Matters Microbial #26: Cultivating the hidden microbial majority
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Dr. Cameron Thrash of the University of Southern California will discuss marine microbiology, an extremely…ubiquitous…microbe (with a name ...
Matters Microbial #25: Gut feelings about phage and the gut microbiome
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Dr. Danielle Campbell (and former #DocMartian!), a postdoctoral scholar of the Baldridge group at Washington University in St. Louis, will shar...
Matters Microbial #24: It takes a quorum to cause disease
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Julia van Kessel of Indiana University will chat with us about how groups of bacteria can sense one another ...
Matters Microbial #23: Fungi: Cool Friends and Looming Foes
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, the impressive Dr. Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins University will joint #MattersMicrobial to discuss his path in science, how fungi need mo...
Matters Microbial #22: A microbial path through the graduate school maze with Lauren Augusta
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today my former undergraduate student Lauren Augusta, currently in a PhD program in Microbiology at the University of Indiana, joins the podcast to ch...
Matters Microbial #21: Microbes, mermaids and coral reefs with Chris Kellogg
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Christina Kellogg of the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg Florida chats with the podcast about her ma...
Matters Microbial #20: Who You Calling Weird? Diving into Microbes at the Bottom of the Ocean
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matters Microbial #19: You are what you(r microbes) eat
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Suzanne Devkota of the Cedars-Sinai Division of Gastronterology and Director of the Cedars Sinai Human Microbiome Research Institute will te...
Matters Microbial #18: The Perfect Predator: Why Phage is Rage
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at UC San Diego and Co-Director at the Center for Innovative Phage Application...
Matters Microbial #17: Evolution in action for everyone with Vaughn Cooper
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Vaughn Cooper, Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, will chat with us about h...
Matters Microbial #16: What's bugging the fruit fly microbiome?
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Nichole Broderick, Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Johns Hopkins University, will chat with us about how the study of the f...
Matters Microbial #15: A Gut Feeling About Precision Medicine
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Sean Gibbons, Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology, will chat with us about how the study of host-associated microbial c...
Matters Microbial #14: An inordinate fondness for viruses with Jack Gilbert
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Jack Gilbert, Professor of Pediatrics and of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chats with us about his MANY interests in microbiology...
Matters Microbial #13: (Magnetically) attractive bacteria with Arash Komeili
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Arash Komeili, professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss compartmentalization in bacteria...
Matters Microbial #12: Shedding light on symbiosis with Ruth Isenberg
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Ruth Isenberg, postdoctoral scholar (and former #DocMartian!) in the Willett Lab at the University of Minnesota, will tell us about her firs...
Matters Microbial #11: Viruses from hell with Ken Stedman
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. Ken Stedman, Professor of Biology at Portland State University, tells us about the strange and wonderful viruses of heat loving extremophili...
Matters Microbial #10: Bacterial fight club
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Dr. David Baltrus, Associate Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona, talks with us about how his laboratory studies bacteria t...
Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen science, and tools for all
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today Sebastian Cocioba, a citizen scientist with myriad interests, talks with us about his path in science, some of the tools he has made for others,...
Matters Microbial #8: Who goes there? Going deep in the Pine Barrens with Lauren Seyler
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Microbes are everywhere and do remarkable things—-like breathing metal! Lauren Seyler joins us today to discuss the microbial mysteries of New Jerse...
Matters Microbial #7: Microbiology from the refrigerator with Elinne Becket
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We exist in a sea of microbes, it is true. We only need to look. And Dr. Elinne Becket of California State University San Marcos, joins Mark to desc...
Matters Microbial #6: What's the buzz on honeybee microbes? With Irene Newton
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is true that microbes are everywhere, and have impacts and applications that are often unexpected. Today, a true microbial force of nature visits M...
Matters Microbial #5: Mothers, Microbes, and Dung Beetles
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's interesting to think about the microbes in and on us—some of which are vital to our well being—and how we came to possess them. Mark introduc...
Matters Microbial #4: Extreme Microbial Closeups: Cryo-EM and Fine Structure of Microbes with Ariane Briegel
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone thinks microbes are very small, and most of them are. But how to see them? The microscope opened a whole new world to the observer, starting ...
Matters Microbial #3: How much of you is microbial? With Seth Bordenstein
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who are you? Human or a group of microbes? Mark discusses this with this with Dr. Seth Bordenstein of Penn State. Seth teaches Mark about a new word, ...
Matters Microbial #2: Shock and awe microbiology and a chat with Mya Breitbart
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark discusses some "shock and awe" concepts about the microbial world that he introduces to his microbiology students, and asks three important quest...
Matters Microbial #1: A microbiological introduction and a chat with Vincent Racaniello
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Matters Microbial, Mark introduces himself and his history, talks a bit about his goals for this podcast, then asks three impo...