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Diagnostics in Action: Telling Microbial Stories

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Andrea Prinzi, Ph.D., MPH, SM(ASCP), and Rodney Rohde, Ph.D.,SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, trace how passion‑driven, nonlinear paths in clinical microbiology l...

Decoding the Pneumococcal Capsule With Moon Nahm

28 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Moon Nahm, M.D., professor emeritus at UAB Department of Medicine and Director of the World Health Organization's Pneumococcal Serology Reference Labo...

From Earth to Orbit: Applied and Environmental Microbiology With Veronica Garcia

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From leading R&D at a biotech startup company to conducting environmental monitoring for NASA, Veronica Garcia, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the ASM ...

Unraveling Introns and Expectations With Marlene Belfort, Ph.D.

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Marlene Belfort, Ph.D., a distinguished professor at the University at Albany and author of Mommy, Can Boys Also Be Doctors?, discusses her journey i...

The Gut Healing Power of Microbes and Cruciferous Vegetables

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Summary Sue Ishaq, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiomes at the University of Maine, discusses how gut microbes transform seemingly inert...

Preventing Foodborne Pathogens With Plant-Derived Compounds with Karl Matthews

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Karl Matthews, Ph.D., Professor of Microbial Food Safety at Rutgers University, discusses ways to eliminate pathogens like Salmonella, E. coli O157...

Early Microbial Life with Michael Lynch and Vaughn Cooper

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Lynch, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University and Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D., professor of Microbiol...

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

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dev Mittar, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the ASM Health Scientific Unit discusses the use of metagenomic next generation sequencing to develop agn...

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

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Summary Afreenish Amir, Ph.D., Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Project Director at the National Institute of Health in Pakistan, highlights sig...

Discovering Fossilized Microbes in Antarctic Ice Cores With Manuel Martinez Garcia

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Summary Mother-Son duo, Brenda Wilson, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and the Associate Director of Undergraduate Education in the School of...

Binning Singletons With Joseph James

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode Summary Timothy Donohue, Ph.D.—ASM Past President, University of Wisconsin Foundation Fetzer Professor of Bacteriologyand Director of the ...

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

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rodney Rohde, Ph.D., Regents' Professor and Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State University discusses the many variants, m...

Increasing Laboratory Capacity for TB Diagnosis With Aureliana Chambal

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb, Pew Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Synthetic Biology Center at MIT builds biosensors to diagnose and treat inflammato...

Think Fungus Early: Preventing Angioinvasion Via Early Detection With Gary Procop

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kate Howell, Associate Professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Melbourne, Australia discusses how microbes impact the flavor and aroma of...

AncientBiotics With Steve Diggle and Freya Harrison

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jessica Lee, scientist for the Space Biosciences Research Branch at NASA's AIMS Research Center in Silicon Valley uses both wet-lab experimentatio...

Invisible Extinction: The Loss of Our Microbes with Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Martin Blaser

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Robert Gaynes, distinguished physician and professor of infectious diseases at Emory University, joins Meet the Microbiologist for a unique episod...

Permafrost with Devin Drown

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

128: Managing Plant Pathogens Using Streptomyces with Linda Kinkel

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How can the intricate relationship between soil microbiota and plants be managed for improved plant health? Linda Kinkel discusses new insights into t...

127: E. coli and Burkholderia vaccines with Alfredo Torres

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pathogenic E. coli are different than lab-grown or commensal E. coli found in the gut microbiome. Alfredo Torres describes the difference between thes...

126: Placental biology, infection and immunity with Carolyn Coyne

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Does the fetus have a microbiome? How does the placenta prevent infection? Carolyn Coyne talks about placental structure and biology, and why studying...

125: Coronavirus Antiviral Drug Discovery with Timothy Sheahan

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are there drugs that can treat coronaviruses? Timothy Sheahan talks about his drug discovery work on a compound that can inhibit all coronaviruses tes...

124: Gastroenteritis Viruses with Mary Estes

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Viral gastroenteritis around the world causes 200,000 deaths globally each year. Mary Estes talks about her work on 2 gastroenteritis-causing viruses,...

123: SAR11 and Other Marine Microbes with Steve Giovannoni

21 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The most abundant organism on Earth lives in its seas: the marine bacterium SAR11. Steve Giovannoni describes how the origins of SAR11 provided its na...

122: Prions and Chronic Wasting Disease with Jason Bartz

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can a protein be contagious? Jason Bartz discusses his work on prion proteins, which cause spongiform encephalopathy and can be transmitted by ingesti...

121: Microbial Interkingdom Interactions with Deb Hogan

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Microbial interactions drive microbial evolution, and in a polymicrobial infection, these interactions can determine patient outcome. Deb Hogan talks ...

Bonus: Diagnosing C. diff Infections for Optimal Patient Outcomes with Colleen Kraft

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why is C. diff such a serious disease and what are clinical microbiologists doing to improve patient outcomes with better diagnostic tools?

120: Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospital Sinks with Amy Mathers

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many hospital-acquired bacterial infections are also drug-resistant. Amy Mathers describes her work tracking these bacteria to their reservoir in hosp...

119: Microbiome Diversity and Structural Variation with Ami Bhatt

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do medical professionals incorporate microbiome science into their patient care? Ami Bhatt discusses her research on the diversity within and betw...

118: Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections with Jorge Benach

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Identified in the 1980s, Borrelia burgdorferi and other Lyme disease-associated spirochetes have since been found throughout the world. Jorge Benach a...

117: Influenza Virus Evolution with Jesse Bloom

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Influenza is famous for its ability to mutate and evolve but are mutations always the virus' friend? Jesse Bloom discusses his work on influenza escap...

116: Citrus Greening and the Microbiome in Diabetes with Graciela Lorca

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Graciela Lorca studies genetic systems to find positive and negative microbial interactions that lead to disease. She talks about her discovery of che...

115: 20 Years of the Lab Response Network with Julie Villanueva

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When a new biothreat or emerging infectious agent threatens, how are diagnostic protocols put into place? It's up to the Laboratory Response Network (...

114: Global Public Health with George F. Gao

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

George F. Gao discusses how China CDC promotes global public health during outbreaks SARS and Ebola. He also talks about running a structural biology ...

113: Bacteriophage Interactions in the Gut with Jeremy Barr

03 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bacteriophage are viruses that infect specific bacteria. Jeremy Barr discusses his discovery that phage interact with (but don't infect) mammalian epi...

112: A Career in Salmonella with Stanley Maloy

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stanley Maloy discusses his career in Salmonella research, which started with developing molecular tools and is now focused on the role of Salmonella ...

111: The Cheese Microbiome with Rachel Dutton

03 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cheese rinds contain microbial communities that are relatively simple to study in the lab while offering insight into other, more complex microbial ec...

110: Metagenomic Sequencing for Infectious Diseases Diagnostics with Charles Chiu

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Most diagnostic tests look for a single microorganism, or at most a limited panel of microorganisms. Charles Chiu discusses his research on metagenomi...

109: Antimicrobial-Eating Microorganisms and the Resistome with Gautam Dantas

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While searching for lignin-degrading soil microbes, Gautam Dantas discovered growth in an antimicrobial compound-containing control! He has since stud...

108: Microbes, Heme, and Impossible Burgers with Pat Brown

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Pat Brown founded Impossible Foods with a mission to replace animals as a food production technology. Here, he discusses the ways microbial engineerin...

107: CRISPR, anti-CRISPR, and anti-anti-CRISPR systems with Joe Bondy-Denomy

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

CRISPR is a genome-editing tool, but what is its role in microbial biology and evolution? Joe Bondy-Denomy discusses his discovery of the first anti-C...

106: Creepy dreadful wonderful parasites (and a few bacteria) with Bobbi Pritt

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Julie's Biggest Takeaways: Parasites are incredibly varied in many characteristics, including their size! Some are microscopic, while others are macro...

105: HPV vaccination with Doug Lowy

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How did discoveries made with bovine papillomavirus help scientists develop the human papillomavirus vaccine? Doug Lowy discusses his journey that beg...

104: Burkholderia pseudomallei and the Neglected Tropical Disease Melioidosis with Direk Limmathurotsakul

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Burkholderia pseudomallei is an endemic soil-dwelling bacterium in southeast Asia, where it causes melioidosis. Direk Limmathurotsakul discusses his w...

103: Predicting Spillover Events with Barbara Han

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When will the next disease outbreak occur? Why are some pests better at spreading disease than others? Disease Ecologist Barbara Han talks about her r...

102: HIV vaccines with Dan Barouch

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why have scientists struggled to generate a protective HIV vaccine? Dan Barouch lays out the unique challenges and discusses the ongoing clinical tria...

101: Structural Biology Insights into Ebola Virus with Erica Ollmann Saphire

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Ollmann Saphire discusses her research on Ebola virus glycoprotein and the changing nature of structural biology. The Ebola virus glycoprotein s...

100: It's our 100th Episode! A retrospective into Meet the Microbiologist with Merry Buckley and Carl Zimmer

25 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We pull back the curtain as former show hosts Merry Buckley and Carl Zimmer talk Meet the Scientist origins, favorite interviews and microbial topics....

099: Microbial engineering for biofuels and beyond with Wayne Curtis

11 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How does an engineer approach microbial genetics? cworks with microbes of all kinds to optimize metabolic and agricultural systems. Here he discusses ...

098: Insect and human microbial symbionts with Seth Bordenstein

30 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of a few decades, scientists have learned how insect endosymbiont bacteria affects insect reproduction and have used this understandin...

097: The Cool World of Glacial Microbiology with Christine Foreman

13 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Christine Foreman explains how microbes can survive and grow on glaciers, and what we can learn from microbes in glacier ice cores. Take the MTM liste...

096: HIV interaction with the immune system with Mark Connors

30 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A very small proportion of people infected with HIV do not develop AIDS. Mark Connors talks about 2 patient populations that his lab studies, the elit...

095: The Evolution of Virulence with Andrew Read

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 2000s, Andrew Read predicted that non-sterilizing vaccines would lead to more virulent disease. He was able to test his hypothesis with t...

094: Containing a Nipah virus outbreak with G Arunkumar

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A recent Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India, was halted due to improved detection capabilities. G. Arunkumar tells the story of his involvement. Ho...

093: Biofilms and metagenomic diagnostics in clinical infections with Robin Patel

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Patel discusses her work on prosthetic joint infections and how metagenomics is changing infectious disease diagnostic procedures. Take the list...

092: A new type of malaria vaccine utilizing the mosquito immune system with Carolina Barillas-Mury

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To eliminate malaria, you have to stop transmission, and that's what Carolina Barillas-Mury hopes to do. Her work on the interaction of the malaria pa...

091: SARS and MERS coronaviruses with Stanley Perlman

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do researchers study a new pathogen? Stanley Perlman talks about how virus researchers studied SARS and MERS after they emerged, what they learned...

090: Using yeast to generate new chocolate and beer flavors with Kevin Verstrepen

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You may know that beer is fermented, but did you know making chocolate requires a fermentation step? Kevin Verstrepen discusses how his lab optimizes ...

089: Using the zebrafish microbiome to study development and the gut-brain axis with John Rawls

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How can the humble zebrafish teach us about the human microbiome? John Rawls discusses the benefits of using animal models Take the MTM Listener Surve...

088: Using Bacterial Structures as Nanowires with Gemma Reguera

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gemma Reguera discusses her studies of Geobacter pili, which transfers electrons to iron oxide and other minerals, and can be used for new biotech app...

087: Legionnaire's Disease with Michele Swanson

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Why do Legionnaire's Disease outbreaks occur mostly in the summer? What is the connection of the Flint change in water source and Legionella outbreaks...

086: Toxoplasma gondii and neuro-invasive disease with Anita Koshy

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How is Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that causes neuro-invasive disease, transmitted as a foodborne pathogen? Why are cats important in transmitting ...

085: Using DNA technologies to answer epidemiological questions with Jennifer Gardy

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Gardy talks about whole-genome sequencing as a technique to address public health issues using genomic epidemiology. She talks about her rese...

084: How viral-bacterial interactions influence viral infection with Julie Pfeiffer

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

See the full shownotes at: asm.org/mtm Julie Pfeiffer tells the story of how she serendipitously found a role for the gut microbiota during polio viru...

083: Microbial communication via quorum sensing with Pete Greenberg

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Greenberg tells how bacteria can communicate based on cell density, a phenomenon he helped name quorum sensing. He talks about therapeutics based...

082: The struggle to study hepatitis C virus with Charlie Rice

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Rice gives the history of learning to grow hepatitis C virus in culture, from pitfalls to hurdles and successes along the 20-year journey. He ...

081: Developing infectious disease diagnostics with Melissa Miller

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How are new diseases detected in a clinical microbiology lab? Melissa Miller talks about the time it takes to develop a test for a new disease (hint: ...

080: Implementing One Health with Mathew Muturi

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Veterinarian and epidemiologist Mathew Muturi tells how a Rift Valley Fever outbreak led to implementation of One Health-based policies. Muturi talks ...

079: Comparative Bacterial Genomics with Dave Rasko

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Rasko uses comparative bacterial genomics to find DNA sequences that influence virulence or antibiotic resistance. Dave talks about his studies o...

078: Tuberculosis treatment and mycobacterial genetics with Bill Jacobs

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Jacobs talks about developing mycobacterial genetic tools and using them to discover ways to shorten TB treatment. He also talks about the SEA-PH...

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

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ilaria Capua talks about running an internationally renowned animal influenza lab, and her time spent in the Italian Parliament. Accused of virus traf...

076: Evolution of bacterial biofilm populations with Vaughn Cooper

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Most bacteria live a sedentary lifestyle in community structures called biofilms. Vaughn Cooper tells us what bacterial biofilms are, why biofilms dif...

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

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Marylynn Yates discusses how the urban water cycle and its importance in eliminating waterborne pathogens. She describes the types of microbes that ca...

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