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A 90 second podcast from the American Society for Microbiology. Composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals, ASM's mission is to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for the improvement of health, economical and environmental well-being worldwide. Produced by Finger Lakes Productions International, MicrobeWorld Radio is also heard daily around the world on several radio networks and stations. For more information, visit us on the web at www.microbeworld.org. Primary Format : Science Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Ithaca State/Province : NY Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of MicrobeWorld Radio Podcasts Methings.com listings of MicrobeWorld Radio Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of MicrobeWorld Radio MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes Jonathan 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 MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers Hazel 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers Dennis Bray is an active professor emeritus in both the Department of Physiology and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He studies the behavior of microbes--how they "decide" where to swim, when to divide, and how best to manage the millions of chemical reactions taking place inside their membranes. For Bray, microbes are tiny, living computers, with genes and proteins serving the roles of microprocessors. In this interview, I talked with Bray about his provocative ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin Michael Cunliffe is a microbiologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in England. He studies the microbes that live in the thin layer of water at the very surface of the ocean. His research is shedding light on an ecosystem that's both mysterious and huge, spanning three-quarters of the surface of the planet.In this interview, I talked with Cunliffe about the discovery of this sea-surface ecosystem, and the influence it has over the climate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines Pratik Shah is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and he’s a 2009 recipient of ASM’s Raymond W. Sarber award, granted to recognize students for research excellence and potential. His research focuses on polyamines and polyamine biosynthesis and transport systems in Streptococcus pneumoniae. He’s studying polyamines with the goal of finding potential targets for pneumococcal vaccines and prophylactic interv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS1 Ralph Tanner - The Future of Biofuels Ralph Tanner, a professor of microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, focuses his research on anaerobes in the environment and putting those bacteria to use in industry.He develops useful microbial catalysts for biofuel production from sustainable crops and has extended our knowledge of microbial diversity by isolating a number of new genera and species with novel physiologies. He helped define the phylogeny of bacteria.In this podcast, I talk with Dr. Tanner about his work producing bio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS2 Seth Darst Seth Darst is a professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University in New York city, where his research centers on RNA polymerase, the enzyme at the heart of a cell’s ability to make protein from a set of DNA instructions. In thisinterview, Merry talks with Dr. Darst about how he got his start in research, whether computers will eventually be able to predict complex protein structures, and why eager young scientists shouldn’t miss their chance at postdoctoral training. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS5 Brett Finlay - E.coli and the Human Gut Brett Finlay is a professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia. His research program focuses on E. coli, how it interacts with the cells of the human gut, and mouse models of E. coli-like infections. Dr. Finlay will speak at the conference on Beneficial Microbes in San Diego this October, where he’ll describe the results of some of his latest research, which exa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An important message for Meet The Scientist subscribers The Meet The Scientist (MTS) podcast is moving to a new website. MTS can now be found on MicrobeWorld.org. MicrobeWorld is the home of all the video and audio podcasts produced by The American Society for Microbiology. Besides podcasts, MicrobeWorld is an aggregator of the best microbiology related news, images, videos and resources found on the net. MicrobeWorld.org allows registered users to be editors and/or curators of the site. Any action users take, from clicking on an article, rating ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes Dr. Frances Arnold is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (most of us know it as Caltech). Dr. Arnold’s research focuses on evolutionary design of biological systems, an approach she is currently applying to engineer cellulases and cellulolytic enzymes for manufacturing biofuels.This country’s energy security can look pretty bleak when you think about it: the need to address global warming, strife in oil-rich nations, and deplet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens Arthur Guruswamy is a clinical microbiologist in Virginia’s Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and the winner of ASM's Scherago-Rubin Award in recognition of an outstanding, bench-level clinical microbiologist. His particular interest lies in mycobacterial and fungal diseases, including tuberculosis.In his work, Mr. Guruswamy places a lot of emphasis on helping others. A while back, he traveled to his native Sri Lanka to train clinic staff in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS33 - Abigail Salyers - The Art of Teaching Science Abigail Salyers is a Professor of Microbiology and the G. William Arends Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her research focuses on the ecology of microorganisms in the human body and the comings and goings of antibiotic resistance genes, particularly genes in Bacteroides species. Dr. Salyers is ASM’s 2009 Graduate Microbiology Teaching Awardee.If you’ve ever tried teaching or mentoring, you know it’s not always easy, but fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines Stanley Plotkin is Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A renowned vaccinologist, Dr. Plotkin is, perhaps, best known for developing a highly successful vaccine for rubella back in 1968. We are still using the same vaccine 40 years later. Dr. Plotkin has been honored with the inaugural Maurice Hilleman / Merck Award for his lifetime of dedication to vaccinology. For most people, rubella amounts to a bad rash and a crummy week, bu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System Christine Biron is the chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University in Providence, and she focuses her research program on the mechanisms of the innate immune system – the body’s system of non-specific munitions for fighting off pathogens. Dr. Biron is also a newly elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. When a pathogen gets on or in your body, your innate immune system is on the front lines, working against the pathogen is a non ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS28 - Joseph DeRisi - New Tech Approaches to Infectious Disease Joseph DeRisi is a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His research focuses on two distinct areas: malaria and new viral pathogen discovery. Dr. DeRisi is this year’s recipient of the Eli Lilly and Company Research Award, granted in recognition of fundamental research of unusual merit in microbiology or immunology by an individual on the threshold of his or her career. Discovering ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS27 - Melanie Cushion - Pneumocystis carinii Melanie Cushion holds down two jobs: she’s a research career scientist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she’s also professor and associate chair for research in the department of internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Cushion focuses her research on the fungus, Pneumocystis carinii, which is a harmless commensal for most people, but a deadly pathogen for others. Pneumocystis carinii was shrouded in obscurity f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS26 - Ian Orme - Tuberculosis Ian Orme is a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University, and his research focuses on the immune response to tuberculosis (TB) — a bacterial disease that most often infects the lungs. He’s speaking at the American Society for Microbiology’s upcoming meeting on Continuing Undergraduate Education (ASMCUE). In the U.S., TB seems like a thing of the past. Here, public health measures and medical care have all but wiped out the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS24 - Jeff Bender - MRSA in Animals Jeff Bender is a professor of veterinary public health at the University of Minnesota, and his research interests lie in the intersection of animal health and human health, including animal-borne diseases of humans, food safety, and antibiotic resistant pathogens in animals. Dr. Bender will speak on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Veterinary Practice at the American Society for Microbiology’s General Meeting in Philadelphia this May. To a microorganism, vertebrates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS25 - Parisa Ariya - Bioaerosols | The Living Atmosphere Parisa Ariya is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Chemistry Department at McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Ariya works mostly in atmospheric chemistry, but she has also done a good deal of work with bioaerosols and airborne microorganisms. She will deliver a talk at the ASM General Meeting in May titled Bioaerosols - Impact on Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere. Bioaerosols – microscopic clumps of microorganisms and organic debris – aris ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MTS22 - David Knipe - Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2) David Knipe is the Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical school. A virologist, Dr. Knipe focuses his research efforts on the herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) – the virus we have to thank for genital herpes. An astonishing 20% of Americans have been infected with HSV-2, and whether they’ve had a recognizable outbreak of sores or not, they can still carry the virus. Once you contract the HSV-2 it lays low in your nerve cells, waiting for the right mome ... 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