MicrobeWorld's Meet the Scientist Podcast
MicrobeWorld's Meet The Scientist Podcast
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, ...
MTS38 - Jonathan Eisen - An Embarrassment of Genomes
Jonathan Eisen is a professor at the University of California, Davis Genome Center. Over the course of his career, he has pioneered new ways of sequencing microbial genomes and analyzing them.
I talked to Eisen about some of the weirdest creatures he's ...
MTS37 - Hazel Barton - Cave Dwellers
Hazel Barton is the Ashland Professor of Integrative Science at Northern Kentucky. She explores some of the world's most remote caves to study the remarkable diversity of microbes that thrive in their dark recesses. I spoke to Barton about how she first ...
MTS36 - Dennis Bray - Living Computers
Dennis Bray is an active professor emeritus in both the Department of Physiology and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He studies the behavior of microbes--how they "decide" where to swim, when to divide, and how best to manage ...
MTS35 - Michael Cunliffe - The Ocean's Living Skin
Michael Cunliffe is a microbiologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in England. He studies the microbes that live in the thin layer of water at the very surface of the ocean. His research is shedding light on an ...
MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines
Pratik Shah is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and he’s a 2009 recipient of ASM’s Raymond W. Sarber award, granted to recognize students for research excellence and ...
MTS33 - Abigail Salyers - The Art of Teaching Science
Abigail Salyers is a Professor of Microbiology and the G. William Arends Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her research focuses on the ecology of microorganisms in the human body and the ...
MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens
Arthur Guruswamy is a clinical microbiologist in Virginia’s Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and the winner of ASM's Scherago-Rubin Award in recognition of an outstanding, bench-level clinical ...
MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens
Arthur Guruswamy is a clinical microbiologist in Virginia’s Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and the winner of ASM's Scherago-Rubin Award in recognition of an outstanding, bench-level clinical microbiologist. ...
MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens
Arthur Guruswamy is a clinical microbiologist in Virginia’s Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services and the winner of ASM's Scherago-Rubin Award in recognition of an outstanding, bench-level clinical microbiologist. ...
MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes
Dr. Frances Arnold is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (most of us know it as Caltech). Dr. Arnold’s research focuses on evolutionary design of biological systems, an approach she is ...
MTS31 - Frances Arnold - Engineering Microbes
Dr. Frances Arnold is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (most of us know it as Caltech). Dr. Arnold’s research focuses on evolutionary design of biological systems, an approach she is ...
An important message for Meet The Scientist subscribers
The Meet The Scientist (MTS) podcast is moving to a new website. MTS can now be found on MicrobeWorld.org. MicrobeWorld is the home of all the video and audio podcasts produced by The American Society for Microbiology. Besides podcasts, MicrobeWorld is ...
An important message for Meet The Scientist subscribers
The Meet The Scientist (MTS) podcast is moving to a new website. MTS can now be found on MicrobeWorld.org. MicrobeWorld is the home of all the video and audio podcasts produced by The American Society for Microbiology. Besides podcasts, MicrobeWorld is ...
MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines
Stanley Plotkin is Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A renowned vaccinologist, Dr. Plotkin is, perhaps, best known for developing a highly successful vaccine for rubella back in 1968. We are ...
MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines
Stanley Plotkin is Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A renowned vaccinologist, Dr. Plotkin is, perhaps, best known for developing a highly successful vaccine for rubella back in 1968. We are ...
MTS30 - Stanley Plotkin - The Past, Present, and Future of Vaccines
Stanley Plotkin is Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A renowned vaccinologist, Dr. Plotkin is, perhaps, best known for developing a highly successful vaccine for rubella back in 1968. We are ...
MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System
Christine Biron is the chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University in Providence, and she focuses her research program on the mechanisms of the innate immune system – the body’s system of non-specific ...
MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System
Christine Biron is the chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University in Providence, and she focuses her research program on the mechanisms of the innate immune system – the body’s system of non-specific ...
MTS29 - Christine Biron - The Innate Immune System
Christine Biron is the chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University in Providence, and she focuses her research program on the mechanisms of the innate immune system – the body’s system of non-specific ...