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MicrobeWorld Video (audio only)

A video podcast by the American Society for Microbiology that highlights the latest in microbiology, life science and biotechnology news. ASM is composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals with the mission to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well-being worldwide. For information about ASM and MicrobeWorld, visit us online at www.microbeworld.org.

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CRISPR from a Bacteriophage Perspective from 2020-02-25T20:00:22

The most common analogy for CRISPR systems is that of molecular scissors. Joe Bondy-Denomy offers an alternative analogy from the bacteriophage perspective, all based on scientific data.

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Microplastics in the Water and their Interaction with Microbes from 2020-01-29T22:25:36

We may not see microplastics, but they are all around us. These microplastics play a role in shaping the microbial environment, and this talk will explain how.

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New Engaging Approaches for Science Communication from 2018-08-06T18:31:38

Science communication experts discuss creative ways (like variations of escape-the-room, the Up-Goer Five Challenge, or edible learning aids) to get people to interact with science.

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Disease Detective - Anne Schuchat - Principal Deputy Director of CDC from 2018-07-14T00:08:13

CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat has extensive experience in global health and science advocacy. Jennifer Gardy interviews Schuchat about emerging disease threats and what advice for ...

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MWV 112 - Astronaut Kate Rubins on TWiV, live from Microbe 2017 from 2017-06-21T18:35:30

From ASM Microbe 2017 at New Orleans, Vincent and Rich meet up with Kate Rubins to talk about becoming an astronaut, space travel, and doing science in space.

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MWV 111 (audio only) TWiM live at Microbe: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots from 2017-06-20T22:35:29

At Microbe 2017 in New Orleans, the TWiM team speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous science, funding by lottery, and moons...

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MWV 110 - How to Create Agar Art Using Living Microbes (Audio Only) from 2017-03-01T15:23:33

Step inside the creative process with Agar Art 2015 winners Maria Peñil Cobo, Mixed Media Artist, and Mehmet Berkmen, PhD, Staff Scientist at New England Biolabs. During their multi-year collabo...

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MWV 109 - The Never-ending Vaccine Race (Audio Only) from 2017-02-27T15:25:01

Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman discusses her book The Vaccine Race. It tells the timely, epic, and controversial story of the development of the first widely-used normal human cell l...

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MWV 108 - My First Microscope from 2016-11-17T17:39:07

In late July, 2016 ASM ventured below the equator, joining public and private sector partners at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) Women in Science (WiSci) STEAM Camp in Chaclacayo,...

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MWV 107 The Necrobiome: Microbial Life After Death - Audio Only from 2016-10-20T18:51:46

What happens to us after we die?  A decomposing corpse becomes its own mini-ecosystem, hosting insects, scavengers and multitudes of microbes.  Microbes from the environment, the corpse, as well...

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MWV 105 - - Understanding the Pathogenesis of the Emerging Zika Virus (Audio Only) from 2016-08-08T19:08:01

Dr. Michael Diamond, 2016 Elizabeth O. King Lecturer, has worked for the past two decades investigating how viruses work, with a goal of defining basic principles of pathogenesis and host immune...

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MWV 104 - Can We Live in a World without Microbes? (Audio Only) from 2016-05-20T11:30


Written and Produced by Erika Shugart, PhD

Narration by Chaseedaw Giles

Filmed and Edited by Sam Mandl and Chris Condayan

Production Supervisor Katherine Lontok, PhD<...

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MWV 103 (audio only): A plague of pathogens - TWiM #121 Live at ASM Biodefense from 2016-02-11T20:10:41

Filmed live at ASM Biodefense 2016 with special guests: Rebekah Kading and Listen

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MWV 102 - Missing Microbes with Dr. Martin Blaser (Audio Only) from 2016-01-29T14:54:35

Why are obesity, juvenile diabetes and asthma increasing? Is it something in the environment or in our modern lifestyle? Dr. Martin Blaser thinks that it may be due to changes in our microbiome ...

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MWV 101: TWiM 115 - Profiling the Poglianos from 2015-11-23T17:30

Vincent visits the laboratories of Kit and Joseph Pogliano on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, where he learns about their work on the bacte...

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MWV 101(aduio only) - Profiling the Poglianos (TWiM 115) from 2015-11-23T17:00

Vincent take This Week in Microbiology to the University of California, San Diego campus and into the the laboratories of Kit and Joseph Pogliano, where he learns about their work on the bacteri...

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MWV 100 (audio only) - Milestones in Blue: TWiM 114 live at the University of Michigan from 2015-11-06T21:03:32

Vincent, Elio, and Michele meet with Harry Mobley, Mary O’Riordan, and Vince Young at the University of Michigan, during the designation of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology as a Mil...

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MWV 99 - Microbial Monsters (Audio Only) from 2015-10-26T14:48

Watch the pilot episode of BioFilms in which we explore some creepy microbes just in time for Halloween. Learn how algae can suffocate a pond of all its life, discover the vampire bacterium know...

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MWV 98 (Audio Only) - TWiM #113: Waves of Change from 2015-10-23T18:22:46

Vincent meets up with Romney and Duncan at the 79th annual meeting of the Southern California branch of the American Society for Microbiology, where they talk about emerging technologies for ant...

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MWV 97 - TWiV #352 Science Art with Michele Banks (Audio Only) from 2015-08-30T13:00

Host: Vincent Racaniello
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MWV96 - Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (Audio Only) from 2015-06-30T13:47:15

In 2011, the NIH Clinical Center had a cluster of infections of a pathogen that tops the CDC's list of urgent threats: antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. This bacteria, which can cause ...

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MWV93 (audio only) - TWiM #95 on campus at SDSU with Dean of Sciences, Stanley Maloy from 2015-01-09T05:30

Vincent visits the San Diego State University campus and talks with Dean of Sciences, Stanley Maloy about his career in microbiolgy and his job as Dean.

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MWV Episode 92 - Ebola on the Front Lines (Audio Only) from 2014-11-24T15:08:27

The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has sickened ov...

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MWV90 (audio only) - This Week in Microbiology #90 - Think globally, act locally from 2014-10-30T19:00

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello


Guests: Laurene Mascola and David Persing


Vincent meets up with Laurene and David at the Annual Meeting of the Southern California Branch of the A...

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MWV Episode 89 - The Water Supply (Audio Only) from 2014-10-13T13:24:01

Creating and maintaining a clean, sustainable water supply mean...

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MWV Episode 88 - This Week in Virology #300 - So Happy Together (Audio Version) from 2014-08-31T12:00

This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, celebrated its 300th episode on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 with a live recording at the Washington, DC headquarters of the American Society for Mi...

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MWV Episode 86 - The Microbiology of Cheese (Audio only) from 2014-06-11T18:18:03

Have you ever wondered ...

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MWV Episode 85 - This Week in Virology: Boston TWiV Party (Audio Only) from 2014-05-25T12:00

The American Society for Microbiology hosted a live podcast of This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello wit...

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MWV #82 (audio only): Rob Knight - The Microbiome Project from 2014-01-09T21:00

Rob Knight studies the diversity of microbial communities. For every person, microbes outnumber human cells by a factor of ten. Rob has found that this large population of microbes differs based...

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MWV #81 (audio only): Sheldon Campbell - The Singing Microbiologist from 2013-11-20T22:38

Sheldon Campbell sings about microbiology. Dr. Campbell teaches microbiology at Yale School of Medicine and he uses music to enhance his lectures. He has one song for every block of lectures he ...

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MWV #80 (audio only) - Harald zur Hausen - Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) from 2013-10-17T21:00

Vincent Racaniello speaks with Professor Harald zur Hausen, recipient of the 2013 Society for General Microbiology Prize Medal for "work that has had a far-reaching impact beyond microbiology."<...

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MWV Episode 79 - The Microbiology of Beer (Audio Version) from 2013-10-11T14:18

The master ingredient in beer is yeast -- a microbe -- and every step in the brewing...

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MWV Episode 78 / This Week in Microbiology 64: URI and UTI at ICAAC in Denver (Audio) from 2013-09-18T11:32

Vincent and Michael recorded this episode at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, where they spoke with James Gern and James Johnson about rhinoviruses and extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli.


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MWV Episode 77 / This Week in Virology 250 (Audio)- Wookie Viruses from 2013-09-15T11:55

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MWV #76 (audio only) - Jeffrey Almond - Vaccine Development from 2013-08-23T16:00

Dr. Jeffrey Almond began his career as an academic virologist studying influenza. Eventually Jeffrey started his own lab and began studying picornaviruses working on an oral polio vaccine strain...

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MWV75 - David Bhella: The Peter Wildy Award Talk (Audio Only) from 2013-07-30T14:26:01

David Bhella, Ph.D., MRC Centre for Virus Research, accept...

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MWV #74 (audio only) - David Bhella - Electron-cryomicroscopy from 2013-07-16T16:29

Dr. David Bhella studies the structural components of viruses using the techniques of electron-cryomicroscopy and image analysis.


In addition to his research, David participates with ...

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MWV Episode 73 - Shutting Down the Government: Anthrax and Yellow Fever (Audio Only) from 2013-07-09T14:35:53

How can something too small to be seen with the naked eye be powerful enough to bring down something like the U.S. Government? It turns out that microbes, mostly invisible, have the extraordinar...

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MWV #72 (audio only) - Jonathan Eisen - Evolvability, the Built Environment and Open Science from 2013-06-03T14:13

Evolvability, the Built Environment and Open Science

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MWV Episode 70 (Audio only) - Microbes After Hours - West Nile Virus from 2013-05-07T19:21:52

2012 saw a surge of West Nile Virus infections, particularly in the central United States. What exactly is West Nile Virus and why do outbreaks occur?



Join us at ASM headq...

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MWV Episode 69 (audio only) - Richard Cogdell - Bacterial Photosynthesis from 2013-04-16T18:42

Richard Cogdell is the Director of the Institute for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Glasglow, Scotland.


Richard was led to a career in s...

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MWV Episode 68 (audio only) - Threading the NEIDL: TWiV Goes Inside a BSL-4 from 2013-03-06T05:00

Constructed in 2009 in the highly populated South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) facility contains labs that operate at...

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MWV Episode 66 (audio only) - Curtis Suttle: Marine Virology from 2013-01-15T16:23

In MicrobeWorld Video episode 66 Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Curtis Suttle, Professor of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, and Botany, and Associate Dean of Science Uni...

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MWV Episode 64 (audio only) - Anne Tanner: Microbes of the Mouth from 2012-09-04T16:32

In episode 64 of MicrobeWorld Video, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Anne Tanner Ph.D., BDS, MDCH (Hon.), Associate Professor at Harvar...

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MWV Episode 63 (audio only) - Forest Rohwer: Microbes of the ocean, coral reefs and the human lung from 2012-08-03T16:43

In episode 63 of MicrobeWorld Video, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Forest Rohwer Ph.D., Professor of Biology, San Diego State Univers...

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MWV Episode 61 (Audio Only) - Richard Lenski: Evolution in a Flask from 2012-06-01T19:47

In episode 61 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Vancouver, Canada on February 17th, 2012, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with R...

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MWV Episode 60 - ASM at the USA Science and Engineering Festival (Audio Only) from 2012-05-21T14:00:30

The American Society for Microbiology at the USA Science and Engineering Festival 2012 in Washington, D.C. Learn what kids have to say about the sc...

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MWV Episode 59 (Audio Only) - Anne K. Jones - Cyanobacteria's Potential as a Fuel Product from 2012-04-13T13:30

In episode 59 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Vancouver, BC Canada on February 17, 2012, Dr...

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MWV Episode 58 - TWiV Live in Dublin (Audio Only) from 2012-04-01T09:30

Listen to Vincent Racaniello and guests Connor Bamford, Ron Fouchie...

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MWV Episode 57 (Audio) - Ron Atlas: Publication of H5N1 Research from 2012-03-07T02:16

In episode 57 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in V...

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MWV Episode 54 - TWiM Live at ICAAC 2011 (audio only) from 2011-09-27T17:01

Episode 54 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on September 17, 2011, features a live recorded video episode of This Week i...

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MWV Episode 53 - TWiV Live in the Windy City (audio only) from 2011-09-27T16:50:22

Episode 53 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on September 17, 2011, features a live recorded video episode of This Week i...

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MWV Episode 52 - Diane Harper: HPV Vaccine Efficacy from 2011-09-08T14:17

In episode 52 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, D.C., on February 18, 2011, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Diane Harper, ...

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MWV Episode 51 - David Relman: The Stability of the Human Microbiome (Audio) from 2011-07-06T18:40

In episode 51 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, D.C., on February 18, 2011, Listen

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MWV 50 Audio Version - This Week in Microbiology Live in NOLA from 2011-06-17T17:32

In episode 50 of MicrobeWorld Video, Vincent, Michael, and Stanley recorded episode #8 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, with guests A...

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MWV 49 Audio Version - TWiV Live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans from 2011-05-31T20:03

Vincent and guests Rachel Katzenellenbogen, Roger Hendrix, and Harmit Malik recorded TWiV #135 live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, where they discussed transformation and oncoge...

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MWV 48 Audio Version - Emerging Diseases: The Importance of Early Warning and Surveillance Systems from 2011-04-21T18:10:15

In episode 48 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, D.C., on February 18, 2011, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Stephen S. Mor...

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MWV 47 Audio Version - Interview with Larry Madoff, Editor of ProMED-mail from 2011-04-01T13:51


In episode 47 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, ...

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MWV Episode 46 - One Health and the Lessons Learned from the 1999 West Nile Virus Outbreak from 2011-03-23T15:41:27

In episode 46 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, D.C., Dr. Listen

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MWV Episode 45 - Metabolomics and the Microbiome from 2011-03-11T17:18

In episode 45 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, D.C., Dr. Listen

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MWV Episode 44 - Investigating the Origins of Disease with Beatrice Hahn from 2011-03-02T17:29

In episode 44 of MicrobeWorld Video filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Washington, D.C., Dr. Stan Maloy talks with Beatrice Hahn, Professor of Medic...

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MWV Episode 43 - USA Science and Engineering Festival - Part 2 (audio only) from 2010-12-08T21:15

On October 23 2010, MicrobeWorld attended the first annual USA Science and Engineering Festival on the Nationa...

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MWV Episode 42 - USA Science and Engineering Festival - Part 1 (audio only) from 2010-11-19T23:06

On October 23 2010, MicrobeWorld attended the first annual USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In part 1 of this two-part video, Stanley Maloy, Dean of ...

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MWV Episode 41 - Inside the Mind's Eye: Communicating Science in a New Media Era (mp3) from 2010-11-01T14:35

Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people get their news. Immediate access to information presents new opportunities as well as challenges for science communic...

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MWV Episode 40 - ICAAC Boston 2010 from 2010-09-19T06:00

MicrobeWorld Video and This Week in Virology team up to bring you a tour of the 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) ...

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MWV Episode 39 - Carl Zimmer: Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media (30 min.) from 2010-07-19T02:16

On May 25th, 2010 science writer Carl Zimmer gave a keynote address at the American Society for Microbiology's General Meeting in San Diego, California. The presentation entitled “Newspapers, B...

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MWV Episode 38 - Influenza surveillance: Should we be monitoring swine herds? from 2010-06-22T17:54:16

Pandemic H1N1 virus may be or may soon become endemic in large modern swine confinement facilities. Despite this, there is a paucity of influenza surveillance that is currently being conducted amo...

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MWV Episode 37 - Global warming may spur new fungal diseases from 2010-06-21T17:11

Watch Dr. Jeff Fox, Features Editor for Microbe Magazine talk with Arturo Casadevall, MD, Ph.D., the editor-in-chief of mBio, the new online, open-access journal from the American Society for Mi...

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MWV Episode 36 - Why Write? Communicating Your Results to Further Scientific Knowledge from 2010-04-23T18:51

On March 18, 2010, Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School and ASM President, gave a presentation to a group of graduate and postdoctoral students on why scientists need to be able to communicate...

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MWV Episode 35 - The Dish with Eddie Holmes from 2010-03-08T22:34:12

From the flu to HIV, RNA viruses challenge our immune systems like no other infectious agent on the planet. RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary chang...

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MWV Episode 34 - mHealth: Infectious Disease in a Mobile Age from 2010-02-25T22:46

Mobile health or mHealth is part of a movement towards citizen-centered health services delivered through cellular technologies. Mobile phones in particular are becoming a first line of defense ...

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MWV Episode 33 - Food Safety 101 from 2009-12-01T22:08

Whether you are making lunch for work, school or a summer picnic, knowing what food to pack and how to prepare it can be the difference between enjoying your day or going home sick. From recent ...

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MWV Episode 32 - Healthy Pet, Healthy You from 2009-09-28T18:00

Animal, human and environmental health are inexorably intertwined. Diseases are making the jump from animals to humans and vice-versa at an increasing pace. The emergence of animal borne disease...

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MWV Episode 31 - Tiny Conspiracies from 2009-08-18T17:04

Bacteria communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their behavior and thereby act as multi-cellular organisms. This process, called quorum sensing, enables bacteria to d...

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MWV Episode 30 - Biofuels in Puerto Rico from 2009-06-30T18:13

Puerto Rico is widely known as the "La Isla del Encanto," which
translated means "The Island of Enchantment." And while its beaches,
tropical rain forest, and biolumescent bays are wonders ...

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MWV Episode 29 - This Week in Virology Live in Philly from 2009-05-27T16:43

MicrobeWorld Video presents episode 33 of This Week in Virology. Hosts Vincent Racaniello, Listen

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MWV Episode 28 - Cheese and Microbes from 2009-05-13T19:37

Fine cheeses are like fine wines. Producing and aging them properly is
both an art and a science. From cave-aging to the use of raw milk,
watch Dr. Catherine Donnelley, Co-director o...

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MWV Episode 27 - ASMCUE from 2009-03-20T17:11:12

The American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) is an interactive four-day conference on scientific updates and effective teaching strategies. Now in its 16th ...

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MWV Episode 26 - Germ Proof Your Kids from 2009-01-22T17:11:12

Parents are often presented with conflicting messages about germs and cleanliness. On the one hand, the news headlines warn us about dangerous "superbugs." On the other hand, there is growing conce...

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MWV Episode 25 - Bacteria Lab from 2008-12-19T16:41:22

What kinds of bacteria are growing in your sink or your refrigerator? How about on your keyboard at work? Does soap really reduce the amount of bacteria on your hands?

Dr. Keith Lampel of ...

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MWV Episode 24 - An Iconography of Contagion from 2008-11-26T21:52

In this episode of MicrobeWorld Video we visit the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., for the opening of "An Iconography of Contagion," an art exhibition featuring more than 20 pu...

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MWV Episode 23 - Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? Part 3 from 2008-11-10T16:41:22

In the final episode of this 3 part video series on how to optimize antibiotic use and how to minimize the emergence of drug resistant pathogens, Dr. Linda Tollefson, Assistant Commissioner for Sci...

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MWV Episode 22 - Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? Part 2 from 2008-10-30T17:45:25

On September 18, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Dr. Stuart Levy, professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dr. Linda Tolle...

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MWV Episode 21 - Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? Part 1 from 2008-10-17T14:32:15

Will we become defenseless against bacteria? Will bacteria always find a way to infect and even kill us? The emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria poses an enormous problem around t...

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MWV Episode 20 - The Singing Toxicologist from 2008-09-16T16:25:35

He's been referred to as the "Elvis of E. coli", the "Sinatra of Salmonella," and in this episode of MicrobeWorld Video the "singing toxicologist." Whatever you call him, Carl Winter, Extension Foo...

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MWV Episode 19 - West Nile Virus from 2008-08-18T17:45:25

West Nile virus entered the United States in 1999 and is now considered a seasonal epidemic that starts in the summer and continues into the fall. First isolated in Uganda in 1937, the virus can ca...

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MWV Episode 18 - One Health from 2008-08-01T16:25:15

Ronald Atlas, former President for the American Society for Microbiology, discusses the new One Health Initiative that recognizes the inter-relationships among human, animal, and environmental heal...

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MWV Episode 17 - Return to Zambia from 2008-06-10T15:15:11

The American Society for Microbiology is helping African nations foster a scientific community that is better able to address thecurrent and future problems that threaten not only the local populat...

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MWV Episode 16 - Canary in a Coal Mine from 2008-05-01T17:25

Coral reefs are dying a death of a thousand cuts and their disappearance threatens not only the incredibly diverse ecosystem that depends on them, but also human health and welfare. In this epi...

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MWV Episode 15 - Modern Transportation and Infectious Disease from 2008-04-04T18:25:51

From your local bus route to international air travel, infectious diseases can spread across the globe in a matter of hours. In this video podcast episode filmed at the Koshland Science Museum in W...

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