Mark Martin returns to TWiM to discuss ways to increase diversity in our field, and the discovery of Borgs, giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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Links for this episode:

• Unacknowledged privilege (Mol Biol Cell)
• Black Microbiologists Association
• Beginner's Guide to Minority Professor Hires
• (ASM)Academic Career Readiness Assessment (UCSF)
• Annual Biomed Res Conference for Minority Students
• Lessons from Plants by Beronda Montgomery
• Giant extrachromosomal BORGS (bioRxiv)

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