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MTS64 - Martin Blaser - Save Our Endangered Germs In this podcast, I speak to Martin Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at the New York School of Medicine. Blaser studies Helicobacter pylori, bacteria that live in the stomachs of billions of people. Blaser has shown that H. pylori has a strange double life inside of us. On the one hand, it can cause ulcers and gastric cancer. On the other hand, it can protect us from diseases of the esophagus, al ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS63 - Jeff Gralnick - I Sing the Microbe ElectricAll life hums with electricity, from our heartbeats to the electrons that flow to the oxygen we breathe.But some bacteria are electricians par excellence, generating electric currents in the soil and water.
In this podcast, I talk to microbe-electricity expert Jeff Gralnick of the University of Minnesota about the biology behind these currents, and how engineers may be able to harness it to power technology.
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MTS62 - Jessica Green - The Living AirIn 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 of life, with millions of microbes swarming around us. Microbes can live many miles high in the upper atmosphere, and they may actually be able to feed and grow in clouds. Green and I talk not just about high-altitude aerobiology, but about the microbes we share our homes and offices with, and how better understanding them ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS61 - Charles Bamforth - Beer: Eight thousand years of biotechnology (39.5 min.)In this podcast, I talk to Charles Bamforth of the University of California, Davis, about the surprisingly complex chemistry of beer, and the pivotal role microbes play in making it happen.
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MTS60 - Thomas Scott - The Bone-Breaking Virus (29.5 min.) 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 mosquitoes, it can make you feel as if your bones are broken and leave you exhausted for months. In more serious cases, people suffer uncontrollable bleeding and sometimes die. Dengue is expanding its range, and is even making incursions into the United States. Scott and I talk about what scientists know and don't know yet about dengue, and what ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS59 - Charles Ofria - Digital LifeIn this podcast I talk to Charles Ofria, a computer scientist at Michigan State University.
Ofria and his colleagues have created a program called Avida in which digital organisms can multiply and evolve. They are studying many of evolution's deepest questions, such as how complexity evolves from simplicity and why individuals make sacrifices for each other. The evolution unfolding in Avida is also yielded new software that can run robots and sensors in the real w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS58 - David Baker - Crowdsourcing BiologyIn this podcast I spoke to David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington. Baker and his colleagues study how proteins fold, taking on the complex shapes that make our lives possible.
It turns out that protein folding is a fiendishly hard problem to solve, and even the most sophisticated computers do a poor job of solving it. So Baker and his colleagues have enlisted tens of thousands of people to play a protein-folding game called ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS57 - Forest Rohwer - Curing the Corals 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 microbiologist at San Diego State University, and he studies how microbes make coral reefs both healthy and sick. Just as we are home to a vast number of microbes, coral reefs depend on their own invisible menagerie of algae and bacteria to get food, recycle waste, and fend off invaders. But as Rohwer writes in his new book, Coral Reefs in th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for LifeIn 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 about Golden's research into time--in particular, how living things know what time it is. While you may have heard of our own "body clock" that tracks the 24-hour cycle of the day, it turns out that some bacteria can tell time, too. Golden has discovered how evolution has produced a molecular clock inside microbes far more elegant than any manmade ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for LifeIn 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 about Golden's research into time--in particular, how living things know what time it is. While you may have heard of our own "body clock" that tracks the 24-hour cycle of the day, it turns out that some bacteria can tell time, too. Golden has discovered how evolution has produced a molecular clock inside microbes far more elegant th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking MicrobeHow 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 Moran of Yale University about her fascinating work on the microbes that live inside insects such as aphids and cicadas. After millions of years, they have become stripped down creatures that are revealing some profound lessons about how superfluous most genes are--at least if you live inside a host.
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MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking MicrobeHow 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 Moran of Yale University about her fascinating work on the microbes that live inside insects such as aphids and cicadas. After millions of years, they have become stripped down creatures that are revealing some profound lessons about how superfluous most genes are--at least if you live inside a host.
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MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of MicrobesIn 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 resistance.
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MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of MicrobesIn 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 resistance.
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MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial WiretapIn 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.
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MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial WiretapIn 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.
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MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare BiosphereIn 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 are ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare BiosphereIn 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 microbe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel RefineriesIn this podcast I talk to James Liao, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer 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 can help ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel RefineriesIn 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast
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
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 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the FarmIn 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 cro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the FarmIn 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 import ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred YearsIn 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 the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred YearsIn 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden GiantIn 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden GiantIn 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild MicrobeDr. 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."
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MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild MicrobeDr. 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 pollutio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On ItIn 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On ItIn 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 ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic BiologyIn 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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MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic BiologyIn 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. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden HistoryIn this episode, I talk to Michael Worobey, an associate professor at the University of Arizona.
Worobey is virus detective, gathering clues about how some of the world's deadliest pathogens have emerged and spread across the globe. Worobey and I talked about the harrowing journeys he has made in search of the origin of HIV, as well as the round-the-clock data-processing he and his colleagues used to discover the hidden history of the new H1N1 flu strain.
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MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden HistoryIn this episode, I talk to Michael Worobey, an associate professor at the University of Arizona.
Worobey is virus detective, gathering clues about how some of the world's deadliest pathogens have emerged and spread across the globe. Worobey and I talked about the harrowing journeys he has made in search of the origin of HIV, as well as the round-the-clock data-processing he and his colleagues used to discover the hidden history of the new H1N1 flu strain.
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MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit UsIn this episode, I speak to Rob Knight, an assistant professor at the University of Coloradio at Boulder.
Knight studies our inner ecology: the 100 trillion microbes that grow in and on our bodies. Knight explained how hundreds of species can coexist on the palm of your hand, how bacteria manipulate your immune system and maybe even your brain, and how obesity and other health problems may come down to the wrong balance of microbes.
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MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit UsIn this episode, I speak to Rob Knight, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Knight studies our inner ecology: the 100 trillion microbes that grow in and on our bodies. Knight explained how hundreds of species can coexist on the palm of your hand, how bacteria manipulate your immune system and maybe even your brain, and how obesity and other health problems may come down to the wrong balance of microbes.
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MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver BulletIn this episode I speak to Julian Davies, professor emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Davies is one of the world's experts on antibiotics. I talked to Davies about how the discovery of antibiotics changed the course of modern medicine, and how we now face a growing threat from the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We also talked about some enduring mysteries about antibiotics.
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MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver BulletIn this episode I speak to Julian Davies, professor emeritus in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Davies is one of the world's experts on antibiotics. I talked to Davies about how the discovery of antibiotics changed the course of modern medicine, and how we now face a growing threat from the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We also talked about some enduring mysteries about antibiotics.
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MTS41 - Sallie Chisholm - Harvesting the SunDr. Chisholm studies photosynthesis—the way life harnesses the energy of the sun.
While most people may associate photosynthesis with trees and other plants, a lot of it goes on in the ocean. And a lot of that ocean photosynthesis is carried out by a single species of bacteria called Prochlorococcus.
There are a trillion trillion Prochlrococcus on Earth. Dr. Chisholm researchers these microbial lungs of the biosphere, and how they produce oxygen on which we depend.
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MTS41 - Sallie Chisholm - Harvesting the SunIn this episode I speak to Sallie "Penny" Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at MIT. Dr. Chisholm studies photosynthesis—the way life harnesses the energy of the sun. Plants carry out photosynthesis, but so do microbes in the ocean. Dr. Chisholm studies the most abundant of these photosynthetic microbes, a species of bacteria called Prochlorococcus. There are a trillion trillion Prochlrococcus on Earth. Dr. Chishol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS40 - John Wooley - Exploring the Protein UniverseJohn Wooley is Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Professor of Chemistry-Biochemistry and of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego. Wooley is a leader in the young field of metagenomics: the science of gathering vast numbers of genes from the oceans, soils, air, and the human body.
In this episode I spoke to Wooley about how metagenomics has revolutionized research on everything from marine ecology to human health, and how he and his colleagues cope with an influx o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS40 - John Wooley - Exploring the Protein UniverseJohn Wooley is Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Professor of Chemistry-Biochemistry and of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego. Wooley is a leader in the young field of metagenomics: the science of gathering vast numbers of genes from the oceans, soils, air, and the human body.
A generation ago biologist knew the sequences of a few thousand genes. Since then that figure has jumped to several million genes and it's only going to continue to leap higher in ye ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS39 - Paul Turner - Pandemic in a Petri DishPaul Turner is an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University. Turner studies the evolution of viruses by observing them evolve over the course of days and weeks in his lab. I spoke to Turner about the lessons he's learned about viruses from his research, such as what it takes for a virus to leap from one species of host to another.
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MTS39 - Paul Turner - Pandemic in a Petri DishIn this episode I talk with Paul Turner, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University.2009 saw the emergence of a new strain of H1N1 flu. Scientists soon determined that the virus had leaped from pigs to humans and then spread to millions of people. When viruses make this kind of leap it's a reason to worry. In 1918 when a strain of flu leapt from birds to humans, 50 million people died in a matter of months. So far the new H1N1 flu strain is behaving ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of GenomesJonathan Eisen is a professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center. Over the course of his career, he has pioneered new ways of sequencing microbial genomes and analyzing them.
I talked to Eisen about some of the weirdest creatures he's studied, such as bacteria that only live on the bellies of worms at the bottom of the ocean, and how we may be able to exploit their genomes for our own benefit. We also discussed the new movement for open access to scientific literature, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of GenomesJonathan Eisen is a professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center. Over the course of his career, he has pioneered new ways of sequencing microbial genomes and analyzing them.
I talked to Eisen about some of the weirdest creatures he's studied, such as bacteria that only live on the bellies of worms at the bottom of the ocean, and how we may be able to exploit their genomes for our own benefit. We also discussed the new movement for open access to scientific litera ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave DwellersHazel Barton is the Ashland Professor of Integrative Science at Northern Kentucky. She explores some of the world's most remote caves to study the remarkable diversity of microbes that thrive in their dark recesses. I spoke to Barton about how she first became captivated by these bizarre organisms, what it's like to do delicate microbiology when you're hip-deep in mud, and why she wants to explore caves on Mars in search of Martians.
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