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MicrobeWorld visits The Maloy Lab at San Diego State University to talk with Professor Stanley Maloy and three grad students, Dave Matthews, Gerardo Perez and Veronica Casas, about their research. The Maloy Lab focuses on the genetics and physiology of Salmonella and bacteriophage that infect Salmonella. Maloy and his students use a combination of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and genomic approaches to answer questions about the uptake of DNA from bacteriophage, transfer of genes between bacteria and phage, and the evolution of pathogenesis.

Since the introduction of MSX and Dermo in the 1950Ãââs, two infectious diseases that played a large role in the decline the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population, several oyster hatcheries along the Eastern seaboard are working with scientists across many fields to develop innovative restoration programs. One idea is to introduce a non-native oyster from China called Crassostrea ariakensis.In this video podcast, MicrobeWorld talks about current research underway with C. ariakensis, the potential risk of new diseases that could affect the Bay's ecology and/or  human health, the attitudes of Maryland's watermen, and the role of local, state and federal policy.Special thanks goes out to the DC Science Writers Association, the Marian Koshland Science Museum and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Horn Point Laboratory for helping with the logistics and planning of the shoot

Do you like oysters? Then join MicrobeWorld for a tour of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Horn Point Laboratory just outside of Cambridge, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. In this video, MicrobeWorld looks at the impact of disease on the Bay's oyster population and how scientists are using cultured algae to restore them. MicrobeWorld interviews Jamie King, Ph.D., NOAA Fisheries, Chesapeake Bay Office, David Nemazie, Marine Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Stephanie Alexander, senior faculty research assistant and hatchery manager for the Horn Point Laboratory. Special thanks goes out to the DC Science Writers Association and the Marian Koshland Science Museum for helping with the logistics

ReGenesis is an award winning science drama produced by Toronto's Shaftesbury Films that centers on the fictitious North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission. NorBAC's special operations team, headed by the brilliant but unpredictable Molecular Biologist Dr. David Sandstrom (Peter Outerbridge) and supported by a cast of forensic specialists and CIA operatives,  investigates new strains of disease, genetically modified bacteria, and potential bioterror threats or agents. In essence, the show is about microbial forensics and the lives of the people who work in and around the lab. ReGenesis is also one of the first dramas to feature full media convergence and was recently awarded with the 2007 International Emmy in the Interactive Program category and the 2006 Gemini Award for Best Cross Platform Project. Visitors to the website can tour the NorBAC laboratory, partake in the laboratory's problem solving, and get insight into each episode's health and science issues by getting the Facts behind the Fiction and Science and Society fact sheets, where episodic drama is analyzed by leading scientists compliments of the Ontario Genomics Institute. The series will launch in the US this September and can be seen on television stations affiliated with ABC, Belo, CBS, Granite, Fox, Hearst, LIN TV, and the Tribune and Young group. ReGenesis is set to become the first complete, original HDTV series offered for weekend syndication. To watch ReGenesis in your area, please check your local listings.   For more information about ReGenesis visit the show online at www.regenesistv.com

This video, produced by Global Health TV, showcases ASM's laboratory capacity building initiatives in Zambia.  The film focuses on ASM's support to the Zambian Ministry of Health and US government agencies in the strengthening of clinical microbiology services with the objective of integration of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS laboratory infrastructure.  Consultants representing ASM have traveled to Zambia to train healthcare workers and researchers on diagnostics for TB, blood culture, and basic bacteriology.  For more information about ASM's international activities, please contact [email protected].

Six science bloggers talk about why they blog, the role of blogging in science, feedback they've received and the greatest microbiological discovery in the past decade.Bloggers featured include:John LogsdonSex, Genes & EvolutionJonathan BadgerT. TaxusYersiniahttp://www.myspace.com/lenore138Moselio SchaechterSmall Things ConsideredTara SmithAetiologyLarry MoranSandwalkAlso featuring: Wojtek Zawada as the SkaterThe Song "Bacteria" is by Jonathan Coulton, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.comFilmed and produced by Chris Condayan and Garth Hogan for the American Society for Microbiology.For more video and audio podcasts visit www.MicrobeWorld.org.

Part 3 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History's

2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save

the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel

was introduced by Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of

Science for the AMNH and moderated by Julie Burstein, Public Radio

International and WNYC Radio's Studio 360.

 

Panelists include:

Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of

Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of

Public Health, and Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.

Susan Perkins, Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, AMNH

James Staley, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

 

Visit MicrobeWorld online at www.microbeworld.org

Part 2 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History's

2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save

the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel

was introduced by Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of

Science for the AMNH and moderated by Julie Burstein, Public Radio

International and WNYC Radio's Studio 360.

 

Panelists include:

Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of

Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of

Public Health, and Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.

Susan Perkins, Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, AMNH

James Staley, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

 

Visit MicrobeWorld online at www.microbeworld.org

Part 1 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History's

2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save

the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel

was introduced by Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of

Science for the AMNH and moderated by Julie Burstein, Public Radio

International and WNYC Radio's Studio 360.

 

Panelists include:

Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of

Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of

Public Health, and Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.

Susan Perkins, Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, AMNH

James Staley, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

 

Visit MicrobeWorld online at www.microbeworld.org