Meet the Microbiologist
Episodes
074: Treating Ebola in America and Fecal Transfers with Colleen Kraft
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Kraft talks about treating Americans who became sick with Ebola during the west African outbreak and were evacuated to her hospital for treatm...
073: Biological sex and influenza with Sabra Klein
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sabra Klein addresses the question: how does biological sex influence influenza infection and vaccination? She explains her findings on inflammation d...
072: Microbial diversity of natural ecosystems with Jennifer Martiny
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Martiny describes the incredible microbial biodiversity of natural ecosystems such as soils and waterways. She explains how to add a bit of c...
071: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Advocacy with Peter Hotez
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hotez talks about neglected tropical diseases: what are they, where are they found, and where did the term "neglected tropical disease" come fro...
070: Influenza vaccine and susceptibility with Stacey Schultz-Cherry
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Schultz-Cherry explains the selection process to choose the influenza virus strains to include in the annual influenza vaccine. Schultz-Cherry ...
069: Biopreparedness and biosecurity with Gigi Kwik Gronvall
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gigi Kwik Gronvall talks to MTM about the importance of biopreparedness. Gronvall discusses her work in creating policies around potential natural, ac...
068: Microbiomes everywhere with Jack Gilbert
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Gilbert talks about his studies on microbiomes of all sorts. He describes the origin of the Earth Microbiome Project, which has ambitions to char...
067: MRSA in agriculture and zombie epidemiology with Tara C. Smith
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tara C. Smith discusses her work uncovering ties between agriculture and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Her studies have found MR...
066: Insect-pathogenic fungi as fertilizers and mosquito control with Raymond St. Leger
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond St. Leger describes his work on insect pathogenic fungi. Members of this diverse group of fungi can be found as part of the plant rhizosphere,...
065: Polio Research Breakthroughs with Vincent Racaniello
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Racaniello discusses how he ended up studying polio virus and the three eureka moments he's experienced so far: uncovering the polio genome, d...
Welcome to Meet the Microbiologist!
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back, Meet the Scientist subscribers! For those of you who never heard an episode of Meet the Scientist, thanks for taking a listen. We're exc...
MTS64 - Martin Blaser - Save Our Endangered Germs
29 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I speak to Martin Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Professor o...
MTS63 - Jeff Gralnick - I Sing the Microbe Electric
16 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
All life hums with electricity, from our heartbeats to the electrons that flow to the oxygen we breathe.But some bacteria are electricians par excel...
MTS62 - Jessica Green - The Living Air
23 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Jessica Green of the University of Oregon about aerobiology: the science of life in the air. We live in an invisible ocean o...
MTS61 - Charles Bamforth - Beer: Eight thousand years of biotechnology (39.5 min.)
04 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk to Charles Bamforth of the University of California, Davis, about the surprisingly complex chemistry of beer, and the pivota...
MTS60 - Thomas Scott - The Bone-Breaking Virus (29.5 min.)
20 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Thomas Scott of the University of California, Davis, about dengue fever, a disease that's on the rise. Spread by mosquito...
MTS59 - Charles Ofria - Digital Life
06 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Charles Ofria, a computer scientist at Michigan State University. Ofria and his colleagues have created a program called A...
MTS58 - David Baker - Crowdsourcing Biology
23 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I spoke to David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington. Baker and his colleagues study how proteins f...
MTS57 - Forest Rohwer - Curing the Corals
01 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
It never occurred to me that the human body and a coral reef have a lot in common--until I spoke to Forest Rohwer for this podcast. Rohwer is a mic...
MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life
18 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk to Susan Golden, the co-director of the Center for Chronobiology at the University of California at San Diego. We talked abo...
MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking Microbe
04 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How many genes can a species lose and still stay alive? It turns out, bacteria can lose just about all of them! In this podcast, I talk to Nancy Mor...
MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes
14 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington about the mathematics of microbes. Bergstrom is a mathematical biologist w...
MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap
01 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton and the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology. Bassler studies t...
MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare Biosphere
17 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk to Mitchell Sogin, the Director of the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the M...
MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel Refineries
02 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to James Liao, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA. I spoke to Dr. Liao about hi...
MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast
21 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the celebration of Microbeworld's 50th episode of the Meet the Scientist podcast, we created a time lapse video that shows exactly what it t...
MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm
19 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk to R. Ford Denison of the University of Minnesota. Denison is an evolutionary biologist who's interested in how to make agr...
MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred Years
05 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk with Irwin Sherman, professor emeritus at the University of California at Riverside, about the century-long quest for a va...
MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant
21 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Keith Klugman, William H. Foege Chair of Global Health at Emory University. Dr. Klugman studies the disease that is the n...
MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe
07 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Daszak is a disease ecologist and President of the Wildlife Trust, an international organization of scientists dedicated to the conservati...
MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It
24 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk to Curtis Suttle, a professor and associate dean at the University of British Columbia.Suttle studies the diversity and popul...
MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic Biology
04 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I talk to James Collins, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor at Boston University. Ten years ago ...
MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden History
18 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Michael Worobey, an associate professor at the University of Arizona. Worobey is virus detective, gathering clues about how...
MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit Us
03 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak to Rob Knight, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder....
MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver Bullet
20 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak to Julian Davies, professor emeritus in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of British Columbia. Dr....
MTS41 - Sallie Chisholm - Harvesting the Sun
06 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak to Sallie "Penny" Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at MIT. Dr. Chisholm studies p...
MTS40 - John Wooley - Exploring the Protein Universe
23 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
John Wooley is Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Professor of Chemistry-Biochemistry and of Pharmacology at the University of California San...
MTS39 - Paul Turner - Pandemic in a Petri Dish
07 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Paul Turner, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University.2009 saw the emergence of a ne...
MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes
05 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Eisen is a professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center. Over the course of his career, he has pioneered new ways of seque...
MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers
23 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel Barton is the Ashland Professor of Integrative Science at Northern Kentucky. She explores some of the world's most remote caves to study the r...
MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers
09 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Bray is an active professor emeritus in both the Department of Physiology and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He st...
MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin
11 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Cunliffe is a microbiologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in England. He studies the microbes that l...
MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines
28 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Pratik Shah is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and he’s a 2009 re...
MTS33 - Abigail Salyers - The Art of Teaching Science
13 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail Salyers is a Professor of Microbiology and the G. William Arends Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Ur...
MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens
29 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Guruswamy is a clinical microbiologist in Virginia’s Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and the wi...
MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes
15 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Frances Arnold is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (most of us know it as Caltech)....
MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines
01 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Plotkin is Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A renowned vaccinologist, Dr. Plotk...
MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System
18 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Biron is the chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University in Providence, and she focuses her resear...
MTS28 - Joseph DeRisi - New Tech Approaches to Infectious Disease
02 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph DeRisi is a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inv...
MTS27 - Melanie Cushion - Pneumocystis carinii
14 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Cushion holds down two jobs: she’s a research career scientist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she’...
MTS26 - Ian Orme - Tuberculosis
07 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Orme is a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University, and his research focuses on the i...
MTS25 - Parisa Ariya - Bioaerosols | The Living Atmosphere
23 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Parisa Ariya is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Chemistry Department at McGill University in Montreal. Dr...
MTS24 - Jeff Bender - MRSA in Animals
17 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Bender is a professor of veterinary public health at the University of Minnesota, and his research interests lie in the intersection of animal ...
MTS23 - Jo Handelsman - The Science of Bug Guts
10 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Handelsman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she’s a member of the Department of Plant Pathology and chair of the Department...
MTS22 - David Knipe - Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2)
31 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
David Knipe is the Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical school. A virologist, Dr. Knipe focuses his research ...
MTS21 - Andrew Knoll - Ancient Life and Evolution
17 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where he stu...
MTS20 - Roberto Kolter - Bacillus Subtilis and Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms
12 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Roberto Kolter is a professor of Microbiology andMolecular Genetics at Harvard’s Medical School. Dr. Kolter’s research interests are broad, bu...
MTS19 - Ellen Jo Baron - The Challenges and Rewards of Working in the Developing World
05 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ellen Jo Baron is a professor of pathology and director of clinical microbiology at Stanford University’s medical center in Palo Alto, Californ...
MTS18 - Elizabeth Edwards - Cleaning Up Solvents in Groundwater
25 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Edwards knows that nothing is simple or easy when it comes to cleaning up toxic waste, but Edwards, a professor of Chemical Engineering and...
MTS17 - Stuart Levy, MD - Antibiotic Resistance and Biosecurity
12 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
If you or someone you care about has ever had an antibiotic resistant infection, you know how dire that situation can be. Stuart Levy, a professor o...
MTS16 - Paul Keim, Ph.D. - The Science Behind the 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks
02 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Keim is a professor of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, where his research program focuses on microbial for...
MTS15 - Kathryn Boor - The Science of Foodborne Pathogens
21 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kathryn Boor is a professor and chair in the Food Science department at Cornell University, where she’s director of the Food Safety Laboratory -...
MTS14 - Moselio Schaechter - Successful Science Blogging and Hunting Mushrooms
07 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Moselio Schaechter – known as Elio to his friends – is Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Emeritus, at the Tufts Univ...
MTS13 - Video Supplement - Proteopedia Video Guide
31 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
This is a video supplement to the audio podcast of Meet the Scientist episode 13 in which I interview Joel Sussman, Ph.D., a professor of structural b...
MTS13 - Joel Sussman - Proteopedia.org and Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins
31 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Sussman, Ph.D. is a professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In his research, Dr. Sussman is interested i...
MTS12 - Nancy Keller - Aspergillus and the Fungal Toxin Problem
23 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Keller is a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A mycologist, Dr. Keller ...
MTS11 - Daniel Lew - The Yeast Cell Cycle
08 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Lew is a professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and of Genetics at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. His ...
MTS10 - Anthony Maurelli - Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes
25 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Maurelli is a professor of microbiology and immunology in the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the ...
MTS9 - Stanley Falkow - 21st Century Microbe Hunter
21 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Falkow is a professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Stanford School of Medicine. His research interests lie in bacterial pathogenesis –...
MTS8 - Rachel Whitaker - The Evolution of Sulfolobus
14 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Whitaker is an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has developed a research prog...
MTS7 - Anthony Fauci - Managing Infectious Disease on a Global Scale
11 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of NIAID – the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Disease – where he is also Chief of the Laborator...
MTS6 Bruce Rittmann - Microbes, Waste and Renewable Energy
09 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Rittmann, the Director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State, focuses his efforts on reclaim...
MTS5 Brett Finlay - E.coli and the Human Gut
02 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Brett Finlay is a professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immuno...
MTS4 David Relman - The Human Microbiome
25 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
David Relman is a Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University, and his research program focuses on the human micro...
MTS3 Ute Hentschel - Symbiotic Sea Sponges
19 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Ute Hentschel is a professor of chemical ecology at the University of Würzburg in Germany. Her research focuses on characterizing the microbial comm...
MTS2 - Seth Darst - RNA polymerase
09 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Darst is a professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University in New York city, where his research centers on RNA polymerase, the en...
MTS1 Ralph Tanner - The Future of Biofuels
18 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Tanner, a professor of microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, focuses his research on anaerobes in the environment and putting those bacter...