MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria Vaccine: The First Hundred Years
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...
5 Mai 201054min
MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Giant
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 gue...
21 Apr 201026min
MTS47 - Peter Daszak - Stalking the Wild Microbe
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...
7 Apr 201042min
MTS46 - Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It
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 ...
24 Mar 201026min
MTS45 - James Collins - Engineering Life: The Past and Future of Synthetic Biology
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 calle...
4 Mar 201037min
MTS44 - Michael Worobey - In Search of the Origin of HIV and H1N1's Hidden History
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 eme...
18 Feb 201042min
MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit Us
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 trillio...
3 Feb 201052min
MTS42 - Julian Davies - The Mysteries of Medicine's Silver Bullet
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 antibioti...
20 Jan 201023min
