Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis February 13, 2025

Today, Dr Ariane Briegel, Professor and head of the Integrative Structural Cell Biology research unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss some of the exciting findings of her research group studying how bacteria and the ever-popular Hawaiian bobtail squid work together at a  molecular level—using cutting-edge cryo-electron  tomography!

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Ariane Briegel

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Links for this episode

• The (somewhat venerable) “The Eighth Day of Creation” discussed in this episode.
• A lovely article about the much missed Dr. Esther Lederberg.  Here is another I much enjoyed. 
• A website devoted to Dr. Esther Lederberg.
• A fun video reminder of the symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Euprymna scolopes.  
• A review of cryo-electron tomography as applied to the study of bacterial structures.
• A book coauthored by Dr. Briegel on the use of this technology to study cell-microbe interactions.
• A video on the topic of cryo-electron tomography.
• Another video by Dr. Briegel on this topic.  
• An earlier episode of #MattersMicrobial with Dr. Briegel.
• An article by the Moore Foundation that supports the work of Dr. Briegel.
• A article describing how cryo-EM can be applied to whole organisms, like roundworms.  
• Research websites for collaborators on this project, Dr. Edward Ruby and Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai.
• Dr. Briegel’s laboratory website.
• Dr. Briegel’s academic website.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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