ARMOR on the Air

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our host, undergraduate student Ezra, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Email: [email protected]

Web: https://www.arclabs.org/armor

Twitter: @cu_armor

Instagram: @cu_armor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

In this episode, learn about an alternative to antibiotics: phage therapy! We're here to give an overview of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and the complex history of phage therapy. Listen in to learn a little about how bacteriophages can be used to treat bacterial infections in humans and why phage therapy isn't mainstream in the US despite being discovered before antibiotics!

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our host, undergraduate student Ezra, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Email: [email protected]

Web: https://www.arclabs.org/armor 

Twitter: @cu_armor

Instagram: @cu_armor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

In this episode, learn about the harmless protein in your body that can potentially cause a fatal, uncurable disease! Also learn about what Kuru disease, mad cow disease, scrapie, and bouncy balls have in common (HINT - they all relate to that one harmless protein)! Find out more by tuning-in to the return of ARMOR on the AIR!

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our new hosts, undergraduate students Ezra and Andy, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them! 

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music!

Find us on: 

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

It’s summer time listeners! In this episode we discuss Shigella infection and how this gut bacterium could potentially impact YOUR summer plans (this is a reminder of how gross public pools are). Also, could this be Karoline’s last appearance!?

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music!

  Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

Welcome to the first installment of the MicroGrammys! Because we’re talking about superstar bacteria pivotal in Nobel Prize wins, and you know, Gram-stains… get it? Today’s focus is E. coli, bacterial genetics, and Joshua Lederberg, who we stan.

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

Today we’re talking about nitrogen fixation, a process that allows plants to take up nitrogen from soil to *live* and lets us eat those plants to also *live*, and the bacteria that makes it all go ‘round: rhizobia. We delve into the symbiotic relationship of legume plants and rhizobia, bird pee and mammal pee, and the invention of mustard gas, and somehow it’s all related!

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

At first glance, jellyfish and drug delivery don’t seem to have much in common, but the beauty of nature is how so many critters have evolved some pretty creative solutions for survival, which we can now use as inspiration in medicine! Come learn about the unique way jellyfish sting us and how scientists could use this for drug delivery.

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

Today we have the pleasure of welcoming Daniel Muñoz Escudero to speak with us! Daniel is a 4th year PhD student in Biology at CU Boulder who works in a lab in the Biochemistry department under Dr. Sousa, where he studies the protein structures that contribute to antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.

Sousa Lab: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/sousa/

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

Here’s looking at you…r eyes. Eyes! Let’s talk pink eye, let’s talk contact lenses, let’s talk immuno-privileged tissue, let’s talk implants. The eyes are an incredibly cool, incredibly unique organ with fascinating responses to bacteria and foreign objects. Get in your daily learning with some fun ocular facts and contact lens do’s and don’t’s (mostly don’t’s) from Dana.

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/

Our last episode of 2021 is about a very cool feat of engineering done by researchers at Cambridge, where they carefully CRISPR-ed an E. coli genome to ADD MORE AMINO ACIDS TO BIOLOGY. Yeah, it’s wild, it’s cool, it made virus-immune bacteria, and it could revolutionize synthesis of materials.

General public article

https://singularityhub.com/2021/06/08/scientists-used-crispr-to-engineer-a-new-superbug-thats-invincible-to-all-viruses/

Original paper

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg3029

ARMOR on the Air is a student-led podcast based out of the University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss the antimicrobial resistance crisis and what we as members of the public can do to help! Join our hosts, graduate student Dana and Danish pharmacist Karoline, as we learn more about superbugs and how to stop them!

ARMOR is an outreach organization at CU Boulder. We promote safe and responsible use of antibiotics, support research into new antibiotics, and encourage the public to take steps in their daily lives to limit development of more superbugs!

Thank you to Prod. Riddiman for our intro/outro music! Serenity - Lofi Hip Hop Beat

Find us on:

Web https://www.arclabs.org/armor and https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/armor/

Twitter @cu_armor

Instagram @cu_armor

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalARMORProject/