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Meet the Microbiologist

Ashley Hagen, M.S.

Who is microbiology? Meet the Microbiologist (MTM) introduces you to the people who discover, innovate and advance the field of microbiology. Go behind-the-scenes of the microbial sciences with experts in virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and more! Share in their passion for microbes and hear about research successes and even a few setbacks in their field. MTM covers everything from genomics, antibiotic resistance, synthetic biology, emerging infectious diseases, microbial ecology,

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39:56

MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/07/14

In this podcast I talk to Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington about the mathematics of microbes. Bergstrom is a mathematical biologist who probes the abstract nature of life itself. We talk about how life uses information, and how information can evolve. But in Bergstrom's hands, these abstractions shed light on very real concerns in medicine, from the way that viruses jam our immune system's communication systems to to the best ways to fight antibiotic

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37:05

MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/07/01

In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton and the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology. Bassler studies the conversations that bacteria have, using chemicals instead of words, Her research is not only helping to reveal how bacteria work together to make us sick, but also how we might interrupt their dialogue in order to cure infections. Related Projects: Measurement of the copy number of the master quorum-sensing regulator of a bacterial

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37:05

MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/07/01

In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton and the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology. Bassler studies the conversations that bacteria have, using chemicals instead of words, Her research is not only helping to reveal how bacteria work together to make us sick, but also how we might interrupt their dialogue in order to cure infections. Related Projects: Measurement of the copy number of the master quorum-sensing regulator of a bacterial

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42:06

MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/06/17

In this podcast, I talk toMitchell Sogin, theDirector of theJosephine Bay Paul Center forComparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood's Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Sogin is one of the leaders of an ambitious project to survey the microbes of the ocean--which total over36,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cells. Using the latest DNA-sequencing technology, Dr. Sogin and his colleagues are cataloging microbes from all over the world, and are

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42:06

MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/06/17

In this podcast, I talk to Mitchell Sogin, the Director of the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood's Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Sogin is one of the leaders of an ambitious project to survey the microbes of the ocean--which total over 36,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cells. Using the latest DNA-sequencing technology, Dr. Sogin and his colleagues are cataloging microbes from all over the world, and

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26:38

MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/06/02

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 his research into engineering microbes to make fuel. Today, we get most of the fuel for our cars out of the ground. It's a process fraught with dangerous consequences, from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the rise in global temperatures thanks to greenhouse gases. Dr. Liao is among a growing number of scientists who think that microbes

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26:38

MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/06/02

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 his research into engineering microbes to make fuel. Today, we get most of the fuel for our cars out of the ground. It's a process fraught with dangerous consequences, from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the rise in global temperatures thanks to greenhouse gases. Dr. Liao is among a growing number of scientists who think that microbes

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02:14

MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/05/21

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 takes to produce a single episode of the show.We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes look and we thank you for listening week after week. Cheers, to another 50 episodes!

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MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/05/21

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 takes to produce a single episode of the show.We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes look and we thank you for listening week after week. Cheers, to another 50 episodes!

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38:41

MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/05/19

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 agriculture better. The ways in which plants thrive or fail are shaped by their evolutionary history, as well as the evolution that unfolds every planting season. We're most familiar with the evolution of resistance to pesticides in insects and to herbicides in weeds. But evolution has many other effects on farms. For example, many important crop

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38:41

MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/05/19

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 agriculture better. The ways in which plants thrive or fail are shaped by their evolutionary history, as well as the evolution that unfolds every planting season. We're most familiar with the evolution of resistance to pesticides in insects and to herbicides in weeds. But evolution has many other effects on farms. For example, many important crop

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54:42

MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/05/05

In this podcast, I talk with Irwin Sherman, professor emeritus at the University of California at Riverside, about the century-long quest for a vaccine against malaria. Scientists have been trying to make a vaccine for the disease almost since the discovery of the parasite that causes malaria. Yet decade after decade, they've encountered setbacks and failures. We talked about why it's so hard to make a malaria vaccine, and how likely it is that scientists will ever be able to do so in

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54:42

MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/05/05

In this podcast, I talk with Irwin Sherman, professor emeritus at the University of California at Riverside, about the century-long quest for a vaccine against malaria. Scientists have been trying to make a vaccine for the disease almost since the discovery of the parasite that causes malaria. Yet decade after decade, they've encountered setbacks and failures. We talked about why it's so hard to make a malaria vaccine, and how likely it is that scientists will ever be able to do so in

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26:32

MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/04/21

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 number one killer of children worldwide. If you guessed malaria or AIDS, you’d be wrong. It’s pneumonia. Two million children under five die every year from it every year--one child every 15 seconds. Dr. Klugman and I spoke about his research on how pneumonia causes so much devastation, its hidden role in the 50 million deaths in the 1918 flu

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26:32

MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/04/21

In this podcast I talk toKeith Klugman, William H. Foege Chair of Global Health at Emory University. Dr. Klugman studies the disease that is the number one killer of children worldwide. If you guessed malaria or AIDS, you’d be wrong. It’s pneumonia. Two million children under five die every year from it every year--one child every 15 seconds. Dr. Klugman and I spoke about his research on how pneumonia causes so much devastation, its hidden role in the 50 million deaths in

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42:12

MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/04/07

Dr. Peter Daszak is a disease ecologist and President of the Wildlife Trust, an international organization of scientists dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity. He is a leader in the field of conservation medicine and is well known for uncovering the wildlife origin of the SARS virus. Dr. Daszak also identifed the first case of a species extinction caused by a disease and has demonstrated a link between global trade and disease emergence via a process called "pathogen pollution." In

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42:12

MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/04/07

Dr. Peter Daszak is a disease ecologist and President of the Wildlife Trust, an international organization of scientists dedicated to the conservation of biodiversity. He is a leader in the field of conservation medicine and is well known for uncovering the wildlife origin of the SARS virus. Dr. Daszak also identifed the first case of a species extinction caused by a disease and has demonstrated a link between global trade and disease emergence via a process called "pathogen pollution." In

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26:56

MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/03/24

In this podcast I talk to Curtis Suttle, a professor and associate dean at the University of British Columbia.Suttle studies the diversity and population of viruses across the entire planet. He has helped show that viruses are by far the most common life forms on the planet. They also contain most of the genetic diversity of life, and they even control how much oxygen we have to breathe. I talked to Suttle about coming to terms with the fact that we live on a virus planet, and how hard it is

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26:56

MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/03/24

In this podcast I talk to Curtis Suttle, a professor and associate dean at the University of British Columbia.Suttle studies the diversity and population of viruses across the entire planet. He has helped show that viruses are by far the most common life forms on the planet. Theyalso contain most of the genetic diversity of life, and they even control how much oxygen we have to breathe. I talked to Suttle about coming to terms with the fact that we live on a virus planet, and how hard it is

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37:23

MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past...

Meet the Microbiologist ·

2010/03/04

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 Collins helped launch a new kind of science called synthetic biology. I talked to Collins about the achievements of synthetic biology over the past decade, such as engineering E. coli that can count, and about the future of synthetic biology--from using bacteria to make fuel to reprogramming the bacteria in our guts to improve our health.

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