When Proteins Become Infectious: Understanding Prion Disease With Neil Mabbott
From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Neil Mabbott, Ph.D., has worked for nearly 2 decades on understanding the mechanisms by which prion proteins become infe...
23 Aug 202455min
Trillion Dollar Microbes Make the Bioeconomy Go Round With Tim Donohue
Episode Summary Timothy Donohue, Ph.D.—ASM Past President, University of Wisconsin Foundation Fetzer Professor of Bacteriologyand Director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) calls ge...
28 Mai 202449min
Rabies: The Diabolical Virus With Many Symptoms and Hosts With Rodney Rohde
Rodney Rohde, Ph.D., Regents' Professor and Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State University discusses the many variants, mammalian hosts and diverse neurological symptoms of ...
7 Mai 202455min
Increasing Laboratory Capacity for TB Diagnosis With Aureliana Chambal
ASM's Young Ambassador, Aureliana Chambal, discusses the high incidence of tuberculosis in Mozambique and how improved surveillance can help block disease transmission in low resource settings. Ashle...
9 Mar 202435min
Good Science, Bad Science and How to Make it Better with Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall
The scientific process has the power to deliver a better world and may be the most monumental human achievement. But when it is unethically performed or miscommunicated, it can cause confusion and div...
26 Jan 202459min
Using AI to Understand How the Gut-Brain Axis Points to Autism With James Morton
Dr. James Morton discusses how the gut microbiome modulates brain development and function with specific emphasis on how the gut-brain axis points to functional architecture of autism. Watch James' ta...
11 Des 202344min
Atypical Metabolism of Leishmania and Other Parasitic and Free-Living Protists With Michael Ginger
Dr. Michael ginger, Dean of the School of Applied Sciences in the Department of Biological and geographical Science at the University of Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, England discusses the atypical...
31 Okt 202344min
IBS Biomarkers and Diagnostic Diapers With Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb
Dr. Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb, Pew Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Synthetic Biology Center at MIT builds biosensors to diagnose and treat inflammatory disorders in the gut, like inflammatory bowel d...
22 Sep 202331min
