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Matters Microbial

Matters Microbial is a podcast about the wonders of microbiology, microbiologists, and microbial centrism with Dr. Mark Martin

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Matters Microbial #27: Broccoli sprouts, gut health,...

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2024/02/09

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 well as making microbiology more inclusive to everyone. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Sue Ishaq Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode An explanation of Charles Darwin’s quotation about having a bad day. The laboratory website of Dr. Michael Baym, who sent me that quotation as a metal plate for my

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Matters Microbial #26: Cultivating the hidden...

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2024/02/02

Today, Dr. Cameron Thrash of the University of Southern California will discuss marine microbiology, an extremely…ubiquitous…microbe (with a name every #Micronaut should know!), conducting research at sea, and his path in science. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Cameron Thrash Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode Here is an essay describing the Great Plating Anomaly and a criticism of that approach. A wonderful video (scan forward to 27

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59:23

Matters Microbial #25: Gut feelings about phage and...

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2024/01/25

Today, Dr. Danielle Campbell (and former #DocMartian!), a postdoctoral scholar of the Baldridge group at Washington University in St. Louis, will share her research into the relationship between bacteriophage and the gut microbiome…as well as chat about her path in science. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Danielle Campbell Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode Here is a link to a wonderful review article by Dr. Campbell describing the role that

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01:00:39

Matters Microbial #24: It takes a quorum to cause...

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2024/01/18

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 and carry out behavior as a collective…including some kinds of disease! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Julia van Kessel Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode An introduction to the horrific disease leprosy, caused by the quite strange organism Mycobacterium leprae. An overview of the Hansen

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58:01

Matters Microbial #23: Fungi: Cool Friends and...

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2024/01/05

Today, the impressive Dr. Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins University will joint #MattersMicrobial to discuss his path in science, how fungi need more study, that some fungi are literally cool, and others a looming threat. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Arturo Casadevall Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A wonderful remembrance (by multiple authors) of Lynn Margulis, and essays by Elio Schaechter (a friend of Margulis’) and James

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46:37

Matters Microbial #22: A microbial path through the...

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2023/12/29

Today my former undergraduate student Lauren Augusta, currently in a PhD program in Microbiology at the University of Indiana, joins the podcast to chat about how she chose her career path in the microbial sciences, and her future path. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Lauren Augusta Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The program for creating the maze on this session’s thumbnail image is here. Here is the website for Micropia, the

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Matters Microbial #21: Microbes, mermaids and coral...

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2023/12/22

Today Dr. Christina Kellogg of the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg Florida chats with the podcast about her many diverse adventures in marine microbial ecology! It’s quite a high energy microbial journey! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Chris Kellogg Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The recycled metal artwork of Brian Mock has a website here. Interested in how bacterial respiration can generate

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59:55

Matters Microbial #20: Who You Calling Weird? Diving...

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2023/12/15

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Matters Microbial #19: You are what you(r microbes) eat

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2023/12/08

Today Dr. Suzanne Devkota of the Cedars-Sinai Division of Gastronterology and Director of the Cedars Sinai Human Microbiome Research Institute will tell us about the role that our diet plays in the gut microbiome, and how that can impact health. So it really is true: you ARE what you(r microbes) eat! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Suzanne Devkota Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode An overview for beginning micronauts on diet and the human

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48:29

Matters Microbial #18: The Perfect Predator: Why...

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2023/12/01

Today Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at UC San Diego and Co-Director at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics, will chat with us about how bacteriophages—viruses that attack bacteria—changed her life and are becoming part of our future. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Steffanie Strathdee Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A fun video about bacteriophages. A pretty solid overview

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49:57

Matters Microbial #17: Evolution in action for...

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2023/11/24

Today Dr. Vaughn Cooper, Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, will chat with us about how he and his team teach high school students and undergraduates about evolution occurring in real time—using bacteria. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Vaughn Cooper Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The Erg Chech 002 meteorite story, which is fascinating. The “World Without

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42:21

Matters Microbial #16: What’s bugging the fruit fly...

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2023/11/17

Today Dr. Nichole Broderick, Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Johns Hopkins University, will chat with us about how the study of the fruit fly microbiome can give us insights into human health and disease. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest Nichole Broderick Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The artist “Chocolate Menagerie”’s Etsy site. Another nice introductory video about the microbiome for new micronauts. An article describing

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46:29

Matters Microbial #15: A Gut Feeling About Precision...

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2023/11/10

Today Dr. Sean Gibbons, Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology, will chat with us about how the study of host-associated microbial communities can give us insights into evolution, ecology, and even human health. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Dr. Sean Gibbons Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A wonderful overview of ammonites, extinct so long ago. A short biography of the late great Abigail Salyers, and another

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45:40

Matters Microbial #14: An inordinate fondness for...

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2023/11/03

Today Dr. Jack Gilbert, Professor of Pediatrics and of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chats with us about his MANY interests in microbiology, from human health to marine environments. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Jack Gilbert Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode Marley and Murtle’s Etsy shop, which created my glow in the dark needle felted tardigrade. My wife Dr. Jennifer Quinn’s Wikipedia page and blog. Ethan Kocak’s fine artwork

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01:01:41

Matters Microbial #13: (Magnetically) attractive...

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2023/10/27

Today Dr. Arash Komeili, professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss compartmentalization in bacteria, and the amazing world of living magnets—the magnetotactic bacteria! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Arash Komeili Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode “Hooked by Bex”’s Etsy page. An introduction to Paenibacillus. More wonderful information on this fascinating bacterium. Another remarkable

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42:59

Matters Microbial #12: Shedding light on symbiosis...

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2023/10/20

Today Dr. Ruth Isenberg, postdoctoral scholar (and former #DocMartian!) in the Willett Lab at the University of Minnesota, will tell us about her first generation path in science, the squid-Vibrio symbiosis work she did for her PhD, and her current career path. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Ruth Isenberg Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall. An article on Kenyan Sand Boas. An article on African Fire Skinks. A

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45:30

Matters Microbial #11: Viruses from hell with Ken...

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2023/10/13

Today Dr. Ken Stedman, Professor of Biology at Portland State University, tells us about the strange and wonderful viruses of heat loving extremophilic archaea—truly viruses from Hell! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Ken Stedman Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A popular article about Markus Martin’s work as a fossil expert extraordinaire. Markus Martin’s website. One of Markus Martin’s academic articles on trilobites. An

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Matters Microbial #10: Bacterial fight club

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2023/10/06

Today Dr. David Baltrus, Associate Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona, talks with us about how his laboratory studies bacteria that battle one another; the first rule of this fight club is that EVERYONE talks about Microbial Fight Club. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: David Baltrus Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode Here is a wonderful and easy to read essay about bacterial predators, including Bdellovibrio, from

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Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen...

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2023/09/29

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, and how he views science and scientists. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Sebastian Cocioba Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The article on Carl Woese that I wrote can be found here. An article on the felt sculpture of Carl Woese is here. The artist who created that sculpture, Amy Wright,

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42:35

Matters Microbial #8: Who goes there? Going deep in...

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2023/09/22

Microbes are everywhere and do remarkable things—-like breathing metal! Lauren Seyler joins us today to discuss the microbial mysteries of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Lauren Seyler Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A beautiful essay on tardigrades can be found here. Weird and wonderful (mythical?) cryptids around the US described here. Hallowe’en fun! Frivolous Forest’s site on Etsy is here. A lovely

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