At Meet the Scientist, we want to reveal more about scientists, the work they do, and what makes them tick. We will ask them what they are up to now and what is next. How is the science moving forward to solve some of the ...
At Meet the Scientist, we want to reveal more about scientists, the work they do, and what makes them tick. We will ask them what they are up to now and what is next. How is the science moving forward to solve some of the intractable problems of our times? What keeps them going in a tough, competitive field? What do they see for the future of research, education, and training? We hope to show you a glimpse of what scientists are really like and what is going on in cutting-edge research today. MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology. Composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals, ASM's mission is to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for the improvement of health and economical and environmental well-being worldwide. For more information, visit us on the web at www.microbeworld.org.
Show allIn this podcast, I talk to Susan Golden, the co-director ...
In this podcast, I talk to Susan Golden, the co-director of the Center for Chronobiology at the University of California at San Diego. We talked about Golden's research into time--in particular, how living things know what time it is. While you may have h
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How many genes can a species lose and still stay ...
How many genes can a species lose and still stay alive? It turns out, bacteria can lose just about all of them! In this podcast, I talk to Nancy Moran of Yale University about her fascinating work on the microbes that live inside insects such as aphids an
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In this podcast I talk to Carl Bergstrom of the ...
In this podcast I talk to Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington about the mathematics of microbes. Bergstrom is a mathematical biologist who probes the abstract nature of life itself. We talk about how life uses information, and how information c
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In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor ...
In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton and the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology. Bassler studies the conversations that bacteria have, using chemicals instead of words. Her research is not only helping t
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In this podcast, I talk to Mitchell Sogin, the Director ...
In this podcast, I talk to Mitchell Sogin, the Director of the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood's Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Sogin is one of the leaders of an ambitious pro
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In this podcast I talk to James Liao, a professor ...
In this podcast I talk to James Liao, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer at UCLA. I spoke to Dr. Liao about his research into engineering microbes to make fuel. Today, we get most of the fuel for our cars out of the ground
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To mark the celebration of Microbeworld's 50th episode of the ...
To mark the celebration of Microbeworld's 50th episode of the Meet the Scientist podcast, we created a time lapse video that shows exactly what it takes to produce a single episode of the show. We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes look and we thank yo
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In this podcast, I talk to R. Ford Denison of ...
In this podcast, I talk to R. Ford Denison of the University of Minnesota. Denison is an evolutionary biologist who's interested in how to make agriculture better. The ways in which plants thrive or fail are shaped by their evolutionary history, as well a
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In this podcast, I talk with Irwin Sherman, professor emeritus ...
In this podcast, I talk with Irwin Sherman, professor emeritus at the University of California at Riverside, about the century-long quest for a vaccine against malaria. Scientists have been trying to make a vaccine for the disease almost since the discove
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