Matters Microbial

Mar 05 2025 81 ep. 57 mins 135
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Matters Microbial is a podcast about the wonders of microbiology, microbiologists, and microbial centrism with Dr. Mark Martin

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Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates

Mar 05 2025 65 mins  
Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates March 5, 2025 Today, Dr. Brianne Barker, Associate Professor of the Biology Department at Drew University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how her undergraduate research group studies how innate immune mechanisms of cells recognize viral invasion. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Brianne Barker Subscribe: Apple P

Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists?

Feb 27 2025 59 mins  
Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists? February 27, 2025 Today, Dr. Marc Chevrette, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how his research group can study novel metabolites and even interactions via study of microbial genomes! Dr. Chevrette reminds us all that microbes are the bes

Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat

Feb 20 2025 59 mins  
Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat February 20, 2025 Today, Dr. Angela Oliverio, Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Syracuse University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss what her research group has been learning about extremophilic single-celled eukaryotes! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Angela Oliverio Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patr

Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis

Feb 13 2025 59 mins  
Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis February 13, 2025 Today, Dr Ariane Briegel, Professor and head of the Integrative Structural Cell Biology research unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss some of the exciting findings of her research group studying how bacteria and the ever-popular Hawaiian bobtail

Matters Microbial #77: It’s a Germ-Eat-Germ World!

Feb 06 2025 64 mins  
Matters Microbial #77: It’s a Germ-Eat-Germ World! February 6, 2025 Today, Dr Laura Williams, Director of Undergraduate Research at Georgia Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss some of the exciting work she did as an associate professor at Providence College with undergraduate students studying predatory bacteria and why we should care about this fascina

Matters Microbial #76:  Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!

Jan 29 2025 65 mins  
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes! January 29, 2025 Today, Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the exciting work he did during his PhD to unravel a fascinating topic: multicellular magnetotactic microbes! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: George Schaible Subsc

Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?

Jan 22 2025 67 mins  
Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs? January 22, 2025 Today, Dr. Darrell Cockburn, Associate Professor of Food Science at Penn State, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work his research group has done exploring how starches and other polysaccharides are used by the gut microbiome. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Darrell Cockburn Subscribe: Apple Podcasts,

Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation

Jan 16 2025 61 mins  
Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation January 16, 2025 Today, Dr. Jessica Coates of the Biology Department at Spelman College joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her work combating microbial misinformation in the classroom and to share her journey to the microbial sciences. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Jessica Coates Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spot

Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome

Jan 08 2025 65 mins  
Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome January 8, 2025 Today, Dr. Travis Wiles, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work he and his research group have done to visualize the changing dynamics of the gut microbiome—including bacteriophages residing there. Host: Mark O. M

Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water?

Jan 02 2025 65 mins  
Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water? January 2, 2025 Today, Dr. Ameet Pinto, Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the microbiome of drinking water and how it can be used to optimize safety and health. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Ameet Pinto Subscribe: Appl