103: Predicting Spillover Events with Barbara Han
When will the next disease outbreak occur? Why are some pests better at spreading disease than others? Disease Ecologist Barbara Han talks about her research that addresses these questions with comput...
8 Mar 201946min
102: HIV vaccines with Dan Barouch
Why have scientists struggled to generate a protective HIV vaccine? Dan Barouch lays out the unique challenges and discusses the ongoing clinical trial with an adenovirus-based vaccine developed in hi...
21 Feb 201938min
101: Structural Biology Insights into Ebola Virus with Erica Ollmann Saphire
Erica Ollmann Saphire discusses her research on Ebola virus glycoprotein and the changing nature of structural biology. The Ebola virus glycoprotein sequence can vary up to 50% between Ebola virus spe...
7 Feb 201946min
100: It's our 100th Episode! A retrospective into Meet the Microbiologist with Merry Buckley and Carl Zimmer
We pull back the curtain as former show hosts Merry Buckley and Carl Zimmer talk Meet the Scientist origins, favorite interviews and microbial topics. Julie's Biggest Takeaways: Though the show starte...
25 Jan 201931min
099: Microbial engineering for biofuels and beyond with Wayne Curtis
How does an engineer approach microbial genetics? cworks with microbes of all kinds to optimize metabolic and agricultural systems. Here he discusses his work with Rhodobacter to make biofuels and for...
11 Jan 20191h 20min
098: Insect and human microbial symbionts with Seth Bordenstein
Over the course of a few decades, scientists have learned how insect endosymbiont bacteria affects insect reproduction and have used this understanding to control mosquito-born diseases. Seth Bordenst...
30 Des 201859min
097: The Cool World of Glacial Microbiology with Christine Foreman
Christine Foreman explains how microbes can survive and grow on glaciers, and what we can learn from microbes in glacier ice cores. Take the MTM listener (that's you!) survey asm.org/mtmpoll it only t...
13 Des 201841min
096: HIV interaction with the immune system with Mark Connors
A very small proportion of people infected with HIV do not develop AIDS. Mark Connors talks about 2 patient populations that his lab studies, the elite controllers and the elite neutralizers, who cont...
30 Nov 201847min
