119: Microbiome Diversity and Structural Variation with Ami Bhatt
How do medical professionals incorporate microbiome science into their patient care? Ami Bhatt discusses her research on the diversity within and between human gut microbiomes, and how this research i...
24 Okt 201955min
118: Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections with Jorge Benach
Identified in the 1980s, Borrelia burgdorferi and other Lyme disease-associated spirochetes have since been found throughout the world. Jorge Benach answers questions about Lyme Disease symptoms, his ...
11 Okt 20191h 3min
117: Influenza Virus Evolution with Jesse Bloom
Influenza is famous for its ability to mutate and evolve but are mutations always the virus' friend? Jesse Bloom discusses his work on influenza escape from serum through mutation and how mutations af...
26 Sep 201952min
116: Citrus Greening and the Microbiome in Diabetes with Graciela Lorca
Graciela Lorca studies genetic systems to find positive and negative microbial interactions that lead to disease. She talks about her discovery of chemical inhibitors for the citrus greening disease b...
13 Sep 201940min
115: 20 Years of the Lab Response Network with Julie Villanueva
When a new biothreat or emerging infectious agent threatens, how are diagnostic protocols put into place? It's up to the Laboratory Response Network (LRN), a multipartner network of public health, cli...
30 Aug 201941min
114: Global Public Health with George F. Gao
George F. Gao discusses how China CDC promotes global public health during outbreaks SARS and Ebola. He also talks about running a structural biology lab, the importance of both basic and translationa...
15 Aug 201945min
113: Bacteriophage Interactions in the Gut with Jeremy Barr
Bacteriophage are viruses that infect specific bacteria. Jeremy Barr discusses his discovery that phage interact with (but don't infect) mammalian epithelial cells. He explains how these different org...
3 Aug 201945min
112: A Career in Salmonella with Stanley Maloy
Stanley Maloy discusses his career in Salmonella research, which started with developing molecular tools and is now focused on the role of Salmonella genome plasticity in niche development. He further...
19 Jul 201941min
