Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy October 17, 2024

Today, Dr. Paul Carini, of the Environmental Science department of the University of Arizona, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how soil bacteria can become dormant, “wake up,” and why that is more relevant than you might suppose.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Paul Carini

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Links for this episode

• A lovely essay about the “Cultivation Conundrum”:  why so many microbes in nature cannot be grown in the laboratory.
• The “uncultivated majority” is often called “microbial dark matter,” described here.  
• An essay about the scale of microbiology with some fascinating facts.
• Arizona Culture Collection project by Dr. Carini and colleagues.
• Dilution to extinction technique
• An overview of sporulation, including some fascinating variations.
• A description of Arthrobacter
• A description of Bradyrhizobium
• An essay explaining PCA plots
• An essay about intrinsically disordered proteins
• A very nice video about working in Dr. Carini’s lab.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
• Dr. Carini’s faculty website.
• Dr. Carini’s fascinating laboratory website.
• Dr. Carini’s Substack page, where he explores many microbiological ideas.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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