A new episode of my #MattersMicrobial podcast is available! This time, Dr. Paul Hoskisson joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss Streptomyces, antibiotics, and evolution. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? I truly can use views and listens to keep podcasting. Thank you.
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So happy that Episode #124 of #MattersMicrobial is available! Dr. Anne Thompson joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about the marine microbial forest & its predators! Please give a look or listen? Grateful for every view! @unipugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbetv.bsky.social
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New episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast! Episode 123 features Dr. Seema Mattoo, who chats with the #QualityQuorum about how all research roads she took seem to involve Bordetella pertussis. Such a great #MicrobialChat! @unipugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbe.tv
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Here are my two #DocMartians for the spring semester as I slouch toward retirement, trying to recreate myself. There is nothing like working with students in the lab. Period. #MicrobialEvangelist #retirement #QualityQuorum @microbetv.bsky.social PS @melissamacdonald28 made the giant micropipette!
New episode of #MattersMicrobial for 2026! This time, Dr. Alaina Weinheimer joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about marine jumbophages and related matters. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @microbe.tv @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology
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As my last semester on payroll at the University of Puget Sound begins (focus and research and planning), I have inspirational lapel pins. I’ll do my best. #retirement #MicrobialEvangelist #QualityQuorum @asmicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbetv.bsky.social
New podcast episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Bat Bor tells the #QualityQuorum all about mysterious interactions between bacteria among the oral microbiota. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv
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A new episode of my #MattersMicrobial podcast! This time, Dr. Julia WIllett joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbial dark matter—unknown genes within microbial genomes! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv
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It's time for a new episode of my #MattersMicrobial podcast! This time, Dr. Matthew Fields joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the ubiquitous and impactful presence of biofilms on Planet Earth. Or should I call it "Planet Biofilm"? Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord
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It's been a while due to program adjustments, but here is the latest #MattersMicrobial podcast: Dr. Gregory Morgan joins the #QualityQuorum discuss cancer viruses and the history of molecular biology. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @microbetv.bsky.social
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Dr. Julie Maresca, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how bacteria can interact with a ubiquitous part of modern life: concrete!
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It’s Friday: a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This week, Dr. Julie Maresca joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss microbes and concrete and road salt! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound @microbe.tv
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Friday means a new #MattersMicrobial podcast. This week, Dr. Hannah Ledvina joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about how bacteria can shield themselves against Bdellovibrio attack! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv
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Dr. Hannah Ledvina, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how bacteria can protect themselves against predators in unusual ways— including a type of armor!
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Today Dr. Jessica Mark Welch, Professor at the ADA Forsyth Institute joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the complex and interactive microbial communities living unseen within our mouths and what those communities can tell us.
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New week, new episode of #MattersMicrobial. This time, Dr. Jessica Mark Welch of the Forsyth Institute joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the microbiogeography of the human tongue and related issues. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord!
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It’s Friday! This time, Dr. Joshua Shrout of Notre Dame joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss sociomicrobiology on #MattersMicrobial. Don’t miss this one! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv
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Dr. Joshua Shrout, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work of his research team on socio-microbiology.
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ICYMI Dr. Petra Levin, joined the #QualityQuorum to discuss her work with bacterial cell size, environmental stress on bacteria, and antibiotic resistance.
Excerpt from Matters Microbial 112: Bacterial Size, Stress, and Antibiotic Resistance
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Episode 112 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Petra Levin joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss bacterial cell size, pH, and antibiotic sensitivity. PLEASE spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. Petra is inspirational. @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbe.tv
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Dr. Petra Levin, the George and Irene Freiberg Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis (and of TWiM!) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her work with bacterial cell size, environmental stress on bacteria, and antibiotic resistance
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New episode of #MattersMicrobial! The superlative Dr. Jeff Gralnick chats with the #QualityQuorum about bacteria that breathe metal! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbe.tv
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Today Dr. Jeff Gralnick, Professor of the Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences at the University of Minnesota joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us a shocking story about how his research group studies the relationship between electrons, microbes, and metals
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On Friday, Episode #110 of #MattersMicrobial became available. The brilliant Dr. Sean Gibbons joined the #QualityQuorum to describe what the microbiome can tell us about numbers, nutrients, and health. I learned so much. Sean is the #MicrobiomeWhisperer. @microbe.tv
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New episode of #MattersMicrobial. Dr. Rodney Rohde joins the #QualityQuorum to talk about rabies and controlling rabies in the environment. Fascinating talk about a scary viral disease. Please spread the #goodmicrobialword @RodneyRohde
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This week, Dr. Laura Weyrich, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the paleo oral microbiome! We will learn if our ancestors had the same kind of resident microbes as we do.
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Another week, another episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, my friend and colleague Dr. Lisa Gorski joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss food safety and Listeria. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? @ASMicrobiology @univpugetsound
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Dr. Lisa Gorski, a microbiologist and food safety consultant recently retired from the USDA joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the facts about the disease causing bacterium named Listeria. We'll learn about the organism, the disease listeriosis and food safety. @markowenmartin.bsky.social
Every week, I do my best to record my #MattersMicrobial podcast. I chat about microbiology with the microbiologists doing that research! Join us at microbe.tv/mm. #podcast #microbiology #micronauts #QualityQuorum
Dr Dennis Claessen of Leiden University Institute of Biology joins the #qualityquorum to discuss how some bacteria lose their cell walls, the costs and advantages of the strategy and how such cells can shed light on antibiotic resistance and even pathogenesis.
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