Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes! January 29, 2025

Today, Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the exciting work he did during his PhD to unravel a fascinating topic: multicellular magnetotactic microbes!

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: George Schaible

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Links for this episode

• What is a postdoctoral scholar in microbiology?
• A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about giant bacteria from Dr. Esther Angert.
• A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about magnetotactic bacteria from Dr. Arash Komeili.
• A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about multicellularity in microbes from Dr Will Ratcliff.
• The transformative Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
• An article describing the value of the Microbial Diversity Course.
• I wrote this blog post on Chlorochromatium aggregatum consortium for Small Things Considered many years ago.
• The "pink berry" consortium at Woods Hole.
• A research paper on genetic interactions within the pink berry consortium, coauthored by a former undergraduate researcher of mine, Dr. Danielle Campbell. Yes, I am very proud.
• A strategy to easily enrich for magnetotactic bacteria from nature. Here is a video that informs and amuses.
• An early report of multicellular magnetotactic microbes.
• The research article under discussion in today's podcast.
• A link to Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler's laboratory website (Dr. Hatzenpichler was the originator of this research, all the way back to his own attending the Microbial Diversity Course.).
• The deeply strange genome(s) of Achromatium.
• An introduction to nanoSIMS technology.
• An introduction to stable isotope probing.
• The laboratory website of Dr. Jean-Marie Volland, where Dr. Schaible works at UC Santa Barbara

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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