Today, Dr. Alex Bisson, Assistant Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how he and his collaborators use a variety of tools to study the mechanobiology of archaea (such as how some respond to being “squished”), and how those studies can shed light on the evolution of complex eukaryotes like humans.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Alex Bisson

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Links for this episode

• An overview of one of the archaea used by Dr. Bisson’s research team, Haloferax volcanii.
• Here is an article from New Scientist about Dr. Bisson’s research.
• A journal article from Nature Communications describing work done by the Bisson laboratory.
• The preprint from Dr. Bisson’s research team discussed in this podcast.
• Here is a video of a seminar by Dr. Bisson.
• Dr. Bisson’s faculty website. 
• Dr. Bisson’s very interesting research team website.  

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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