Today Dr. Ken Stedman, Professor of Biology at Portland State University, tells us about the strange and wonderful viruses of heat loving extremophilic archaea—truly viruses from Hell!

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Ken Stedman

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Links for this episode

• A popular article about Markus Martin’s work as a fossil expert extraordinaire.
• Markus Martin’s website.  
• One of Markus Martin’s academic articles on trilobites.
• An interesting article on the complexity of colony morphology by Bacillus subtilis.
• An article about Serratia, prodigiosin, and temperature.  
• An article I wrote about educational aspects of the work of the late great Carl Woese.
• An introduction to the diverse and fascinating archaea.  
• An introduction to the viruses of archaea.
• Ken Stedman’s fascinating laboratory website.
• Ken Stedman’s faculty website.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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