491: Less Liquid Lands Losing Lichens
This episode: Trends of declining lichen populations and biocrust cover overall match trends of increasing temperatures in Colorado dryland!...
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BacterioFiles
The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.
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20 of 100 episodes490: Parasitoid Pox Partners
This episode: A virus partners with a parasitoid wasp to help exploit fruit fly victims! Download Episode (7.7 MB, 11.2 minutes) Show notes:...
489: Soil Smell Synthesis Significance
This episode: Many organisms produce the smell of earth, geosmin, and many others can sense it–but why? Download Episode (6.0 MB, 8.7 minute...
488: Social Slimes Synchronize Sorties
This episode: Slime mold amoebas Fonticula alba have interesting and unique foraging and reproductive behaviors! Download Episode (7.3 MB, 1...
487: Probiotic Pulverizes Pathogen Persisters
This episode: A probiotic strain of E. coli can target and destroy pathogens that survive a treatment of antibiotics! Download Episode (8.2...
486: Biohybrid Bacteria Build Biomass
This episode: Incorporating light-absorbing molecules into bacterial membranes can allow bacteria to use solar energy to transform nitrogen...
485: Small Cell Sculpts Sticky Snot Sphere
This episode: A marine protist predator traps prey microbes in an attractive bubble of mucus, eats what it wants, and lets the rest sink, po...
484: Bacteriophages Boost Brains
This episode: Certain phages in the gut are linked with increases in performance on some cognitive tests! Download Episode (7.5 MB, 10.9 min...
483: Recycling Resources Raises Robustness
This episode: Adding tags to proteins to increase their degradation can help engineered bacteria grow and survive better under various condi...
482: Colony Concentric Clock Construction
This episode: Single-celled bacteria can act independently to create patterns and structure in their biofilm communities! Download Episode (...
481: Hijacker-Host Sequence Swap
This episode: Gene transfers between viruses and eukaryotes have happened many times throughout evolutionary history! Download Episode (7.5...
480: Bait Bottlenecks Bear Bacteria
This episode: Human-based food used as bait by hunters can reduce bears' gut microbe diversity! Download Episode (5.9 MB, 8.6 minutes) Show...
479: Uncomplicated Critters Conquer Cancer
This episode: Simple microscopic animals can survive extreme radiation by ejecting damaged cells that might otherwise become cancer! Downloa...
478: Babies Bear Bacterial Birthright
This episode: How family members share gut microbes across multiple generations! Download Episode (7.3 MB, 10.7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe...
477: Hijackers Hitchhike on Hyphal Highways
This episode: Bacteriophages can hitch a ride on bacteria they don't infect to travel through soil on fungal filaments, potentially helping...
476: Bamboo Breakdown Benefits Beetle Babies
This episode: Beetles inoculate bamboo with a fungus that consumes the bamboo sugars to feed the beetle larvae! Download Episode (7.7 MB, 11...
475: Modifying Mixed Microbiota
This episode: New techniques allow specific modifications in certain members of a complex community of microbes, without isolating them in p...
474: Stalker Cells Stop Seafood Sickness
This episode: Predatory bacteria could protect lobster farms from disease-causing bacteria! Download Episode (4.8 MB, 7 minutes) Show notes:...
473: Bacteriophage Bunks in Bacterial Barriers
This episode: A bacteriophage that overcomes the bacterial CRISPR/Cas immune system by interrupting the CRISPR DNA with its own genome! Down...
472: Caulobacter Condensates Compartmentalize Kinase
This episode: Bacteria can use blobs of disordered proteins to quickly adapt to new conditions! Thanks to Dr. Saumya Saurabh for his contrib...