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 #66: Digesting the Science of Fermented Foods
Today, Dr. Ben Wolfe, Associate Professor of Biology at Tufts University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how he…
Matters Microbial #65: Squishy Tissues and Hints from Archaea
Today, Dr. Alex Bisson, Assistant Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how he and his collaborators use a variety of tools to study the mechanobiology of a…
Matters Microbial #64: Making Sense of the Microbiome
Today, Dr. Patrick Schloss, Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how the human micro…
Matters Microbial #63: A Symphony of Cyanobacteria
Today, Dr. Nathan Algren, Associate Professor of Biology at Clark University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the centrality o…
Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells
Today, Dr. Jolene Ramsey, of the Biology Department of Texas A&M University and A…
Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy
Today, Dr. Paul Carini, of the Environmental Science department of the University of Arizona, joins the #Quali…
Matters Microbial #60: Influenza, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Fortunate Mistakes
Today, Dr. Adam Lauring of the University of Michigan joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the job of a …
Matters Microbial #59: Some (Microbes) Like It Hot—Discussions with the Thermal Biology Institute
Today is an unusual episode of the podcast. I am visiting four microbiologists in t…
Matters Microbial #58: The Virosphere from Coral Reefs to Other Worlds
Today, Dr. Cynthia Silveira of the Department of Biology at Miami University joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her research team’s efforts to explore how bacterial viruses interact with their ho…
Matters Microbial #57: Pitting Metabolic Inhibitors Against Viruses
Today, Dr. Tracie Delgado of the Biology Department at Seattle Pacific University joins the #QualityQuorum to d…
Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution
Today, Dr. Carolina Martinez Gutierrez of the Department of Earth Science at the University of California Santa Barbara…
Matters Microbial #55: An accidental microbiologist
Today, the award winning and affable Dr. David Westenberg of the Missouri University of Science and Technology joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss his efforts at microbial outreach from K-12 (and bey…
Matters Microbial #54: In the shadow of giant viruses
Today, Dr. Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Assistant Professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss his laboratory …
Matters Microbial #53: Heavy metal microbes!
Today, Dr. Jennifer Goff of the Department of Chemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her laboratory’s work studying the relationship betwe…
Matters Microbial #52: A relationship between the microbiome and nasopharyngeal cancer?
Today, Dr. Justine Debelius of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her fascinating work relating the human microbiome to nasopharyngeal cancer, as …
Matters Microbial #51: From Legionella to mentoring to outreach
Today, Dr. Michele Swanson, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Michigan, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the her journey to microbiology, the mysterious disease causing bacterium Leg…
Matters Microbial #50: One versus many, the evolution of multicellularity
Today, Dr. Will Ratcliff of the Georgia Institute of Technology joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the fascinating work his group has done exploring the evolution of multicellularity, and the wonder…
Matters Microbial #49: Microbes and Macrobes: Always Interconnected
Today, Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai of the California Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her philosophy of the future of biology. Dr. McFall-Ngai has been described as “…a reco…
Matters Microbial #48: Many are bright but few are chosen
Today, Dr. Mark Mandel, Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the research his laboratory group does exploring how the…
Matters Microbial #47: A lifetime enamored with microbes
Today, Dr. Roberto Kolter, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Harvard University (and past President of the American Society for Microbiology), joins the Quality Quorum to discuss his life long in…