Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Nicholas Bergman, PhD

What do sheep, Islamic fascists and Vladimir Putin have in common? Anthrax. The "poor man’s" weapon of mass destruction, this disease has been recognized since Biblical times. Join our guest, Dr. Nicholas Bergman has his discusses the development of anthrax into a weapon of mass destruction. Dr. Bergman received his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He has published a paper examining some of the genomic properties of Anthrax in the Journal of Bacteriology.