Today, Dr. Roberto Kolter, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Harvard University (and past President of the American Society for Microbiology), joins the Quality Quorum to discuss his life long interest in microbes and microbiology, and how best to present microbiology to the public.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Roberto Kolter

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Links for this episode

•  A wonderful article about the complexities of how microbes look and grow with live graphics.  I use this article with my introductory #Micronauts every Fall.  Beautiful!
• An article by Dr. Kolter discussing how to choose a study problem in microbiology…and other areas.  
• The book “Life at the Edge of Sight” by Dr. Roberto Kolter and Dr. Scott Chimileski is very much worth your time.  Highly recommended.
• Dr. Scott Chimileski’s website, with beautiful photographs of bacterial colonies. 
• An article on the history of microbiology by Dr. Kolter. 
• The article by Dr. Kolter I discussed during the podcast, “Biofilms in lab and nature: a molecular geneticist’s voyage to microbial ecology.”
• A lecture by Dr. Kolter and Dr. Chimileski at Harvard University Museum of Natural History.
• Another lecture at the Harvard University Museum of Natural History by Dr. Kolter and Dr. Chimileski.
• Images from the “World in a Drop Exhibition” can be found here.  
• An essay from “Small Things Considered” on abortive transduction, discussed in the podcast.  Here is another essay on that topic.
• A biography of Dr. Kolter.
• Dr. Kolter’s laboratory website with many interesting links.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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