Mar 9, 2024
Houston, we definitely do NOT have a problem…with interviewing
Dr. Kate Rubins, NASA astronaut. Dr. Rubins is a virologist
who has spent over 300 days in space, performing experiments aboard
the International Space Station, where she was the first person to
sequence DNA in space.
We caught up with Dr. Rubins at the...
Jan 13, 2024
Dr. Hyun Jung Kim, an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic
specializes in coaxing human cultured cells to differentiate and
form tissues resembling the gastrointestinal tract, in order to
study microbe-GI interactions.
Dr. Kim discusses his surprising discovery of how common
immortalized cultured cells can...
Oct 18, 2023
Plague and anthrax are feared diseases due to high mortality
rates following pulmonary exposure, and both are considered
potential bioweapons.
Dr. Virginia Miller, professor at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and ASM President, studies plague, as well as other
Gram negative bacteria. Dr. Theresa...
Aug 4, 2023
Dr. John Coates, a professor at the University of California
Berkeley specializes in environmental microbiology and how microbes
can be utilized to resolve problems in industry.
microTalk caught up with Dr. Coates at the ASMicrobe conference in
Houston and discussed his research in applied and...
Jul 7, 2023
The study of evolution has experienced a tremendous revolution
with the advances in current sequencing technologies enabling e.g.
rapid whole genome sequencing.
Dr. Vaughn Cooper, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh who
studies evolution in microbes, has taken advantage of these
technologies to delve into how...