The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.
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2024-05-27 | This episode: Trends of declining lichen populations and biocrust cover overall match trends of increasing temperatures in Colorado dryland! Download EpisodeĀ (6.4 MB, 9.3 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Cherry chlorotic rusty spot associa... |
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2024-03-11 | This episode: A virus partners with a parasitoid wasp to help exploit fruit fly victims! Download EpisodeĀ (7.7 MB, 11.2 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Actinomadura livida Takeaways Parasitoid wasps have an interesting lifestyle: they inj... |
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2024-01-29 | This episode: Many organisms produce the smell of earth, geosmin, and many others can sense itābut why? Download EpisodeĀ (6.0 MB, 8.7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Acidianus spindle-shaped virus 1 Ā News item Ā Takeaways The smell of so... |
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2023-12-11 | This episode: Slime mold amoebas Fonticula alba have interesting and unique foraging and reproductive behaviors! Download EpisodeĀ (7.3 MB, 10.6 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Cajanus cajan Panzee virus News item Ā Takeaways How did life ... |
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2023-11-20 | This episode: A probiotic strain of E. coli can target and destroy pathogens that survive a treatment of antibiotics! Download EpisodeĀ (8.2 MB, 12 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Streptomyces griseoruber Ā Takeaways Antibiotic resistance ... |
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2023-10-30 | This episode: Incorporating light-absorbing molecules into bacterial membranes can allow bacteria to use solar energy to transform nitrogen gas into fertilizer! Download EpisodeĀ (6.5 MB, 9.9 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Wheat dwarf vir... |
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2023-10-16 | This episode: A marine protist predator traps prey microbes in an attractive bubble of mucus, eats what it wants, and lets the rest sink, possibly sequestering significant amounts of carbon! Download EpisodeĀ (7.8 MB, 11.4 minutes) Show notes: Microbe ... |
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2023-10-02 | This episode: Certain phages in the gut are linked with increases in performance on some cognitive tests! Download EpisodeĀ (7.5 MB, 10.9 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Streptomyces bikiniensis News item Takeaways Our gut microbiota in... |
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2023-09-18 | This episode: Adding tags to proteins to increase their degradation can help engineered bacteria grow and survive better under various conditions! Download EpisodeĀ (7.3 MB, 10.4 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Lactococcus virus sk1 News i... |
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2023-09-04 | This episode: Single-celled bacteria can act independently to create patterns and structure in their biofilm communities! Download EpisodeĀ (9.6 MB, 14.0 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Dictyostelium discoideum Skipper virus News item Take... |
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