BacterioFiles

By Jesse Noar

The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.... more

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FAQs about BacterioFiles:

How many episodes does BacterioFiles have?

The podcast currently has 676 episodes available.

BacterioFiles episodes:

June 15, 2015BacterioFiles 217 - Fungus Fortifies Fly Food
This episode: Fruit flies have microbes that help them get more nutrition out of low-quality food!
Download Episode (8.4 MB, 9.1 minutes)

Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Strategies for treating infections without antibiotics
Increased interest in microbes for agriculture
Our genetics seem to affect our gut microbiota
Algae farm over highway consumes CO2 from cars
Fly bacteria engineered to prevent sleeping sickness tranmission (paper)
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
10min
June 15, 2015BacterioFiles 217 - Fungus Fortifies Fly Food
This episode: Fruit flies have microbes that help them get more nutrition out of low-quality food!
Download Episode (8.4 MB, 9.1 minutes)

Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Strategies for treating infections without antibiotics
Increased interest in microbes for agriculture
Our genetics seem to affect our gut microbiota
Algae farm over highway consumes CO2 from cars
Fly bacteria engineered to prevent sleeping sickness tranmission (paper)
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
10min
June 07, 2015 BacterioFiles Special - ASM2015
Here's my summary of ASM2015, an exciting weekend full of science.
Download Episode (11.5 MB, 12.5 minutes)
Post questions or comments here or email to [email protected]. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter, MicrobeWorld, or Facebook
...more
13min
June 07, 2015 BacterioFiles Special - ASM2015
Here's my summary of ASM2015, an exciting weekend full of science.
Download Episode (11.5 MB, 12.5 minutes)
Post questions or comments here or email to [email protected]. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter, MicrobeWorld, or Facebook
...more
13min
May 25, 2015BacterioFiles 216 - Probiotic Promotes Peanut Permissiveness
This episode: Kate Franz and Matt Woodruff from Audiommunity join me to talk about a clinical trial of peanut immunotherapy with probiotics to treat peanut allergies!
Download Episode (29 MB, 31.75 minutes)

Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Audiommunity - episode about food allergies
Other interesting stories:
Some viruses can survive being frozen for hundreds of years
Resistance to certain gut pathogen correlates with certain gut microbes (paper)
"Normal" gut microbiome probably as varied as we are ourselves
Human gut communities are very different from chimpanzees'
Figuring out how to engineer bacteria to tolerate biofuels they produce
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
32min
May 25, 2015BacterioFiles 216 - Probiotic Promotes Peanut Permissiveness
This episode: Kate Franz and Matt Woodruff from Audiommunity join me to talk about a clinical trial of peanut immunotherapy with probiotics to treat peanut allergies!
Download Episode (29 MB, 31.75 minutes)

Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Audiommunity - episode about food allergies
Other interesting stories:
Some viruses can survive being frozen for hundreds of years
Resistance to certain gut pathogen correlates with certain gut microbes (paper)
"Normal" gut microbiome probably as varied as we are ourselves
Human gut communities are very different from chimpanzees'
Figuring out how to engineer bacteria to tolerate biofuels they produce
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
32min
May 18, 2015BacterioFiles 215 - Plasmid Pirates Piezophile Particles
This episode: Deep-sea thermophile bacteriophage is pirated by another scurvy genetic element!!
Download Episode (10.2 MB, 11.2 minutes)

Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Viral remnants are important for human stem cells and development
One Clostridium (scindens) defies overgrowth of another (difficile)
Mosquito bacteria hurt dengue and malaria and mosquitoes
Mitochondria (and thus eukaryotes) might've come from a parasite
Studying phages that kill bee-killing bacteria
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
12min
May 18, 2015BacterioFiles 215 - Plasmid Pirates Piezophile Particles
This episode: Deep-sea thermophile bacteriophage is pirated by another scurvy genetic element!!
Download Episode (10.2 MB, 11.2 minutes)

Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Viral remnants are important for human stem cells and development
One Clostridium (scindens) defies overgrowth of another (difficile)
Mosquito bacteria hurt dengue and malaria and mosquitoes
Mitochondria (and thus eukaryotes) might've come from a parasite
Studying phages that kill bee-killing bacteria
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
12min
May 10, 2015BacterioFiles 214 - Cable-Chlorophyte Coop Conducts Current
This episode: Cable bacteria and algae set up electric grid in sediments!
Download Episode (6 MB, 6.5 minutes)

Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Daily rhythms are important for gut microbes and their hosts
Wild yeasts are very diverse in the smells they produce (paper)
Gut microbiome may be involved in alcoholism (paper)
Tiny tiny viruses can have very big effect on ocean carbon
Mouse lupus correlates with certain gut bacteria
Image: Green algae o rocks at ShihTiPing (giant stone steps) coastal area in Taiwan. By: Wikipedia:User:Fred Hsu on en.wikipedia
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
7min
May 10, 2015BacterioFiles 214 - Cable-Chlorophyte Coop Conducts Current
This episode: Cable bacteria and algae set up electric grid in sediments!
Download Episode (6 MB, 6.5 minutes)

Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Daily rhythms are important for gut microbes and their hosts
Wild yeasts are very diverse in the smells they produce (paper)
Gut microbiome may be involved in alcoholism (paper)
Tiny tiny viruses can have very big effect on ocean carbon
Mouse lupus correlates with certain gut bacteria
Image: Green algae o rocks at ShihTiPing (giant stone steps) coastal area in Taiwan. By: Wikipedia:User:Fred Hsu on en.wikipedia
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or Facebook
...more
7min

FAQs about BacterioFiles:

How many episodes does BacterioFiles have?

The podcast currently has 676 episodes available.

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