Matters Microbial

Today, Dr. Paula Welander, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University (and #DocMartian #4) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work she and her colleagues are doing probing at early life by studying lipid biosignatures that can appear in the fossil record—and the role that cholesterol and related molecules have on microbial life. Host:  Mark O. Martin Gues...

Today, Dr. Manu Ramalho of West Chester University in Pennsylvania joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wonderful world of ants, their microbiomes, and what their intersection can teach us about our place in the natural world. Host:  Mark O. Martin Guest:  Manu Ramalho Subscribe: Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify Become a  patron  of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode I wear some microbial theme...

Today, Dr. Brian Stevenson of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss a twisty twirling form of life, spirochetes, ticks, and human diseases like Lyme Disease. Host:  Mark O. Martin Guest:  Brian Stevenson Subscribe: Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify Become a  patron  of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The  Latin Translator  I have used (because if I am...

Today, Dr. Jennifer Biddle of the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss deep microbial life in marine environments (and why you should care about it), as well as her fascination with archaea! Host:  Mark O. Martin Guest:  Jennifer Biddle Subscribe: Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify Become a  patron  of Matters Microbial! Links for this episod...

Today, Dr. Hazel Barton, Loper Endowed Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama,  joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us about her explorations of cave microbiology and the relationship between microbiology and geology! Host:  Mark O. Martin Guest:  Hazel Barton Subscribe: Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify Become a  patron  of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode An introduction of...

Today, Dr. Franny Gilman, Principal Scientist at the Kraft-Heinz Company (and another #DocMartian who worked in my undergraduate research lab),  joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us about the path that took her from studying the cloacal microbiome of lizards to Greenland and eventually to food science! Host:  Mark O. Martin Guest: Franny Gilman Subscribe: Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify Become a  patron...

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 hav...

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  descr...

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! Li...

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...

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  (...

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 cre...

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 recycle...

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  pat...

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...

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...

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 Menageri...

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...

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 d...

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  i...

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 ep...

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 extraor...

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 episo...

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 ....