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MicrobeWorld Radio 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.
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MTS64 - Martin Blaser - Save Our Endangered Germs Updated: 2010-12-29 21:44:25 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS63 - Jeff Gralnick - I Sing the Microbe Electric Updated: 2010-12-16 14:23:36 Description: All 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-electr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS62 - Jessica Green - The Living Air Updated: 2010-11-23 23:54:17 Description: In 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 uppe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS61 - Charles Bamforth - Beer: Eight thousand years of biotechnology (39.5 min.) Updated: 2010-11-04 15:44:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS60 - Thomas Scott - The Bone-Breaking Virus (29.5 min.) Updated: 2010-10-20 21:08:00 Description: 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 se...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS59 - Charles Ofria - Digital Life Updated: 2010-10-06 20:17:00 Description: In 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 de...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS58 - David Baker - Crowdsourcing Biology Updated: 2010-09-23 10:00:00 Description: In 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS57 - Forest Rohwer - Curing the Corals Updated: 2010-09-01 19:35:00 Description: 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 health...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life Updated: 2010-08-18 21:14:00 Description: In 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking Microbe Updated: 2010-08-04 17:34:00 Description: How 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes Updated: 2010-07-14 20:56:00 Description: 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 in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap Updated: 2010-07-01 19:09:00 Description: 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 hel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare Biosphere Updated: 2010-06-17 18:11:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel Refineries Updated: 2010-06-02 17:21:00 Description: 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 o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast Updated: 2010-05-21 19:22:00 Description: 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 th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm Updated: 2010-05-19 15:19:00 Description: 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,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred Years Updated: 2010-05-05 17:14:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant Updated: 2010-04-21 15:24:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe Updated: 2010-04-07 14:24:00 Description: 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 unco...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It Updated: 2010-03-24 17:09:00 Description: 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 comm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic Biology Updated: 2010-03-04 15:44:00 Description: 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 th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden History Updated: 2010-02-18 18:24:00 Description: In 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit Us Updated: 2010-02-03 18:24:00 Description: In 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver Bullet Updated: 2010-01-20 21:04:00 Description: In 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 discover...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS41 - Sallie Chisholm - Harvesting the Sun Updated: 2010-01-06 21:04:00 Description: In 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 photosyn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS40 - John Wooley - Exploring the Protein Universe Updated: 2009-12-23 21:04:00 Description: John 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 number...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS39 - Paul Turner - Pandemic in a Petri Dish Updated: 2009-12-07 23:04:00 Description: In 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes Updated: 2009-11-05 02:04:00 Description: 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 creatur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers Updated: 2009-10-23 19:04:00 Description: 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 rececesses. I spoke to Barton about how s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers Updated: 2009-10-09 17:04:00 Description: 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin Updated: 2009-09-11 18:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines Updated: 2009-08-28 18:00:00 Description: 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 exce...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS33 - Abigail Salyers - The Art of Teaching Science Updated: 2009-08-13 17:34:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens Updated: 2009-07-29 21:00:00 Description: 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 micro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes Updated: 2009-07-15 21:00:00 Description: 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 approa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines Updated: 2009-07-01 19:10:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System Updated: 2009-06-18 13:24:00 Description: 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-sp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS28 - Joseph DeRisi - New Tech Approaches to Infectious Disease Updated: 2009-06-02 15:34:00 Description: 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.&n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS27 - Melanie Cushion - Pneumocystis carinii Updated: 2009-05-14 18:34:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS26 - Ian Orme - Tuberculosis Updated: 2009-05-07 18:34:00 Description: 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. H...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS25 - Parisa Ariya - Bioaerosols | The Living Atmosphere Updated: 2009-04-23 17:34:00 Description: 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’s also done a good deal of work w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS24 - Jeff Bender - MRSA in Animals Updated: 2009-04-17 16:27:00 Description: 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 res...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS23 - Jo Handelsman - The Science of Bug Guts Updated: 2009-04-10 16:10:00 Description: Jo Handelsman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she’s a member of the Department of Plant Pathology and chair of the Department of Bacteriology. Dr. Handelsman’s research focuses on microbial communities – thei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS22 - David Knipe - Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2) Updated: 2009-03-31 16:10:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS21 - Andrew Knoll - Ancient Life and Evolution Updated: 2009-03-17 15:30:00 Description: Dr. Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where he studies ancient life, its impacts on the environment, and how the environment, in turn, shaped th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS20 - Roberto Kolter - Bacillus Subtilis and Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms Updated: 2009-03-12 15:30:00 Description: Roberto Kolter is a professor of Microbiology andMolecular Genetics at Harvard’s Medical School. Dr. Kolter’s research interests are broad, but he says his eclectic program boils down to an interest in the ecology and evolution ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS19 - Ellen Jo Baron - The Challenges and Rewards of Working in the Developing World Updated: 2009-03-05 15:30:00 Description: Dr. Ellen Jo Baron is a professor of pathology and director of clinical microbiology at Stanford University’s medical center in Palo Alto, California. A co-author of the authoritative Manual of Clinical Microbiology, Dr. Baron and her ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS18 - Elizabeth Edwards - Cleaning Up Solvents in Groundwater Updated: 2009-02-25 15:30:00 Description: Elizabeth Edwards knows that nothing is simple or easy when it comes to cleaning up toxic waste, but Edwards, a professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto, is looking for ways to harness microbes to do our...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS17 - Stuart Levy, MD - Antibiotic Resistance and Biosecurity Updated: 2009-02-12 16:43:00 Description: If you or someone you care about has ever had an antibiotic resistant infection, you know how dire that situation can be. Stuart Levy, a professor of microbiology at Tufts University in Boston, has centered his research around the theme of anti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS16 - Paul Keim, Ph.D. - The Science Behind the 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks Updated: 2009-02-02 16:43:00 Description: Dr. Paul Keim is a professor of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, where his research program focuses on microbial forensics and the genomic analysis of pathogenic bacteria. As an expert in Bacillus anthracis, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS15 - Kathryn Boor - The Science of Foodborne Pathogens Updated: 2009-01-21 16:43:00 Description: Dr. Kathryn Boor is a professor and chair in the Food Science department at Cornell University, where she’s director of the Food Safety Laboratory - a biosecurity level 2 laboratory that facilitates research on foodborne pathogens. Her ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS14 - Moselio Schaechter - Successful Science Blogging and Hunting Mushrooms Updated: 2009-01-07 16:43:00 Description: Moselio Schaechter – known as Elio to his friends – is Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Emeritus, at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and he’s currently an adjunct professor at San Diego Stat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS13 - Video Supplement - Proteopedia Video Guide Updated: 2008-12-31 16:43:04 Description: This is a video supplement to the audio podcast of Meet the Scientist episode 13 in which I interview Joel Sussman, Ph.D., a professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The video shows Sussman's Proteopedia.org in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS13 - Joel Sussman - Proteopedia.org and Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins Updated: 2008-12-31 16:43:00 Description: Joel Sussman, Ph.D. is a professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In his research, Dr. Sussman is interested in elucidating the structures and functions of proteins, particularly those involved in the nervous ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS12 - Nancy Keller - Aspergillus and the Fungal Toxin Problem Updated: 2008-12-23 17:43:00 Description: Nancy Keller is a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A mycologist, Dr. Keller works with a genus of fungi called Aspergillus – many of which are potent plant and human pa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS11 - Daniel Lew - The Yeast Cell Cycle Updated: 2008-12-08 17:43:00 Description: Daniel Lew is a professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and of Genetics at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. His research program focuses on cell cycle control in yeast, and how the cell cycle interacts with ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS10 - Anthony Maurelli - Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes Updated: 2008-11-25 17:43:00 Description: Tony Maurelli is a professor of microbiology and immunology in the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Maurelli’s major research interest li...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS9 - Stanley Falkow - 21st Century Microbe Hunter Updated: 2008-11-21 14:43:00 Description: Stanley Falkow is a professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Stanford School of Medicine. His research interests lie in bacterial pathogenesis – how bacteria cause infection and disease – and over the course of his career he h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS8 - Rachel Whitaker - The Evolution of Sulfolobus Updated: 2008-11-14 16:30:00 Description: Rachel Whitaker is an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has developed a research program focused on the evolutionary ecology of microorganisms. Much of Dr. Whitaker’s work center...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS7 - Anthony Fauci - Managing Infectious Disease on a Global Scale Updated: 2008-11-11 11:00:00 Description: Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of NIAID – the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Disease – where he is also Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. Dr. Fauci’s research interests lie primarily in the molecular...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS6 Bruce Rittmann - Microbes, Waste and Renewable Energy Updated: 2008-10-09 14:43:00 Description: Bruce Rittmann, the Director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State, focuses his efforts on reclaiming contaminated water and producing renewable energy using microbes. He was elected to the Nation...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS5 Brett Finlay - E.coli and the Human Gut Updated: 2008-10-02 20:10:00 Description: 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 inter...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS4 David Relman - The Human Microbiome Updated: 2008-09-25 13:33:00 Description: David Relman is a Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University, and his research program focuses on the human microbiome – the microbial communities of bacteria, viruses, and other organisms that thrive o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS3 Ute Hentschel - Symbiotic Sea Sponges Updated: 2008-09-19 13:54:00 Description: Ute Hentschel is a professor of chemical ecology at the University of Würzburg in Germany. Her research focuses on characterizing the microbial communities associated with marine sponges, the diversity of these symbionts and their activities. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS2 - Seth Darst - RNA polymerase Updated: 2008-09-09 17:29:00 Description: 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 this ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MTS1 Ralph Tanner - The Future of Biofuels Updated: 2008-08-18 17:39:00 Description: 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 sustainab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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