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 #86: Intraterrestrials — the Strangest Life on, and in, the Earth
Today, Dr. Karen Lloyd, Professor of Earth Science at the University of Southern California, joins…
Matters Microbial #85: The Microbiomes of Hawai’ian Seascapes
Today, Dr. Rosie ’Anolani Alegado of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how weather, …
Matters Microbial #84: Detecting Pathogens — and Worse — in Wastewater
Today, Dr. Rachel Poretsky, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago joi…
Matters Microbial #83: Helicobacter — Passing the Acid Test
Today, Dr. Karen Ottemann, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at the Univer…
Matters Microbial #82: Melanin, Fungi, and Global Warming
Today, the impressive Dr. Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins University returns to the podcast to discuss how fungal disease …
Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates
Today, Dr. Brianne Barker, Associate Professor of the Biology Department at Drew University, joins the #QualityQuoru…
Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists?
Today, Dr. Marc Chevrette, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida, joins the #…
Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat
Today, Dr. Angela Oliverio, Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Syracuse University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discu…
Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
Today, Dr Ariane Briegel, Professor and head of the Integrative Structural Cell Biology research unit at th…
Matters Microbial #77: It’s a Germ-Eat-Germ World!
Today, Dr Laura Williams, Director of Undergraduate Research at Georgia Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discu…
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
Today, Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the #Q…
Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?
Today, Dr. Darrell Cockburn, Associate Professor of Food Science at Penn State, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the w…
Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation
Today, Dr. Jessica Coates of the Biology Department at Spelman College joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her w…
Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome
Today, Dr. Travis Wiles, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine, joins the #Qu…
Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water?
Today, Dr. Ameet Pinto, Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technolo…
Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment
Ever wonder what’s growing on your toothbrush? Today, Dr. Erica Hartmann, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental E…
Matters Microbial #70: Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance
Today, Dr. Dr. Erika Ganda, Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes in the Department of Animal Science at Penns…
Matters Microbial #69: Can Eating Microbes Make You Healthy?
Today, Dr. Maria Marco, Professor of Food Science and Technology at the University of California Davis, joins the #Qual…
Matters Microbial #68: Social Evolution in Viruses
Today, Dr. Sam Díaz-Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as a Faculty Member of the Genome C…
Matters Microbial #67: Chemical Communication in Microbe Symbioses
Today, Dr. Marcy Balunas, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, as well as part of the Department o…