MMP #17: How bacteria can change graphene to propel rotors.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guests, Julia Yeomans and Vikas Berry. Julia Yeomans of Oxford University in the United Kingdom and chemical eng...
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Microbe Magazine Podcast
Microbe is a monthly science podcast hosted by Jeff Fox, features editor for Microbe Magazine, published by the American Society for Microbiology. Each episode is a conversation with a scien...
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17 episodes
MMP #16: Insights into Toxoplasma gondii parasites
Host: Jeff Fox with special guest, Emma Wilson. Emma H. Wilson of the University of California, Riverside, talks with Jeff Fox about efforts...
MMP015: A Scientific Roadmap for Antibiotic Discovery
Host: Jeff Fox with special guests, Carolyn Shore and Ruben Tommasi. Carolyn Shore of Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C., and Ruben T...
MMP014: A look at several microorganisms involved with electricity.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guests, Gemma Reguera and Geoffrey Gadd. Gemma Reguera of Michigan State University in East Lansing and Geoffrey...
MMP013: Redetermining the ratio of microbial to human cells – correcting the widely held view that this ratio is 10 to 1
Host: Jeff Fox with special guests, Ron Milo and Shai Fuchs. Ron Milo of Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and Shai Fuchs at...
MMP012: Hydrogen from ground rocks can furnish microbial ecosystems with energy to drive growth.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guest, Jon Telling. Jon Telling of Bristol University in Bristol, United Kingdom talks with Jeff Fox about his f...
MMP011: Reexamining the emergence of land plants based on an analysis of the cell walls of charophycean green algae.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guests, Øjvind Moestrup, Peter Ulvskov, and Jesper Harholt. Øjvind Moestrup and Peter Ulvskov, both at the Unive...
MMP010: Examining the gut microbiota of American Indians of Cheyenne and Arapaho ancestry with Cecil M. Lewis, Jr. and Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guests, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr. and Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan . Lewis and Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan—"Kri...
MMP009: Customizing phage by swapping tail genes to target specific pathogens with Timothy Lu.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guest, Timothy Lu . Lu, an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer...
MMP008: Producing yeast strains for making lager beers with new flavor notes with Stijn Mertens.
Host: Jeff Fox with special guest, Stijn Mertens. Mertens, a graduate student working with Kevin Verstrepen at the University of Leuven in B...
MMP007: A virtual robot with its own virtual microbiome telling it what to do with Warren C. Ruder
Warren C. Ruder of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia talks with Jeff Fox about eff...
MMP006: A fused, single-subunit bacterial ribosome with Alexander Mankin and Michael Jewett
Alexander Mankin –called Shura --of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Michael Jewett at Northwestern University talk with Jeff Fox ab...
MMP005: Fruitflies, microbes, and aggression with Jeremy Brownlie
Jeremy Brownlie of Griffıth University in Brisbane, Australia, talks with Jeff Fox about how bacteria influence aggressive behavior in an an...
MMP004: Deep-Sea Archaea and the Tree of Life with Thijs Ettema
Thijs Ettema of Uppsala University in Sweden talks with Jeff Fox about a deep-sea archaeon, named Lokiarchaeum for the underwater volcano be...
MMP003: Smallpox and the Native Americans with Paul Kelton
Paul Kelton of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, talks with Jeff Fox about the introduction of infectious diseases among Native American p...
MMP002: Ultrasmall bacteria with Birgit Luef and Chris Brown
Birgit Luef of Trondheim University in Norway and Chris Brown of the University of California, Berkeley, talk with Jeff Fox about ultrasmall...
MMP001: Polio Virus Vesicles with Nihal Altan-Bonnet
Although virologists long assumed that lone viruses independently infect target cells, in the case of poliovirus and other enteroviruses, se...