MTS57 - Forest Rohwer - Curing the Corals
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 s...
1 Sep 201023min
MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life
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, ho...
18 Aug 201028min
MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking Microbe
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 o...
4 Aug 201052min
MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Microbes
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...
14 Jul 201039min
MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap
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 chemica...
1 Jul 201037min
MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare Biosphere
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, Massachus...
17 Jun 201042min
MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel Refineries
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...
2 Jun 201026min
MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist Podcast
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 ho...
21 Mai 20102min
