Matters Microbial
Matters Microbial is a podcast about the wonders of microbiology, microbiologists, and microbial centrism with Dr. Mark Martin
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 106
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Matters Microbial #106: Cells Without Walls – Full-Frontal Bacteria
Today, Dr. Dennis Claessen of Leiden University’s Institute of Biology joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how s…
Matters Microbial #105: Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea
Let’s take a deep dive into chemoautotrophy! Today, Dr. Roxanne Beinart, Associate Professor of Oceanography at the …
Matters Microbial #104: Antibiotic “Tolerance” and Biofilms
Today, Dr. Boo Shan Tseng, Associate Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Life Sciences, joins the #Q…
Matters Microbial #103: Giant Bacteria and Bigger Questions
Today, Dr. Jean-Marie Volland, Assistant Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara joins the #QualityQuor…
Matters Microbial #102: Teaching Through the Issues with Microbes!
Today, Dr. Davida Smyth, Professor of Biology and Deputy Director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engage…
Matters Microbial #101: Electrifying News about Cable Bacteria
Today, Dr. Nicole Geerlings from the University of Vienna in Austria joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss some of the wond…
Matters Microbial #100: What's the Buzz on Phage Therapy for Honeybees?
Today, Dr. Heather Hendrickson from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand joins the #QualityQuorum to disc…
Matters Microbial #99: Albert Kluyver—Microbial Unity and Diversity in Metabolism
Today, Dr. Dianne Newman of Caltech joins the #QualityQuorum live at ASM Microbe in Los Angeles, to di…
Matters Microbial #98: Nesting Dolls of Endosymbiosis
Today, Dr. John McCutcheon of Arizona State University joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work he and his research group do to…
Matters Microbial #97: Microbes in the Air (Way)
Today, Dr. Ari Kozik, Assistant Professor at the University of MIchigan joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work she and her resear…
Matters Microbial #96: Molecular Microbiology in High Schools
Today, Bob Kuhn, biotechnology teacher at the Fulton County Schools Innovation Academy STEM high school in Alpharetta, Geo…
Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story
Today, Dr. Tory Hendry, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Cornell University, joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us ab…
Matters Microbial #94: One Health and Microbiomes Everywhere
Today, Dr. Seth Bordenstein and Dr. Nichole Ginnan of Pennsylvania State University join the #QualityQuorum to tell us about…
Matters Microbial #93: Preventing Antibiotic Resistance
Today’s episode was an in-person podcast at the University of Texas Austin! Dr. Despoina Mavridou, Assistant Professor of Molecu…
Matters Microbial #92: Microbial Metabolism in Extreme Places
Today, Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida (and Na…
Matters Microbial #91: You Are What Your Genes Feed Your Microbiome
Today, Dr. Emily Davenport, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences…
Matters Microbial #90: Using Soil Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture
Today, Dr. Francisco Dini Andreote, Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes at Penn State, joins the #QualityQuorum to…
Matters Microbial #89: Can AI Point Us to New Antibiotics
Today, Dr. Amir Mitchell, Associate Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, joins the #Q…
Matters Microbial #88: Microbial Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis
Today, Dr. Reed Stubbendieck, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Oklahoma State University jo…
Matters Microbial #87: Dietary Protein and the Microbiome
Today, Dr. Manuel Kleiner, Associate Professor of Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities at North Carolina State Unive…