The microbigals's Podcast

Hello Microbigal Nation! It's Earth week so this week we've put together a top 10 ways microbes can help with sustainability from lowering greenhouse gases to eating plastics to sustainable agriculture. Microbes can help us in all sorts of ways! 

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Giant Microbes is a company that makes plush representations of microbes, a million times the actual size! They Make science fun and giftable! They have over 200 different plushies that are all science-based. So whether you are a microbiologist, a student, or just got your COVID-19 vaccine, there is something here for everyone! 

Find out the story of Andrew Klein and his company Giant Microbe. Find out what his favorite microbe is and what are some of the crowd favorites are at Giant Microbe. 

 If you'd like to have your own Giant Microbe don't forget our discount code: MICROBIGAL20D

The history of microbes starts long before the history of man. We are the aliens to their world. Travel through time and see through their eyes. From the first drop of oxygen to the mighty microbiome movement. Learn about the Fathers of Microbiology, Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur, and Jon Snow. Learn about some less known Fathers of Microbiology as well like Elie Metchnikoff, Sergei Winogradsky, and Alexander Fleming. From before oxygen dominated the earth to the microbiome movement, we cover billions of years of history in just 30 minutes.  and many other brilliant scientists that brought us to today.

Don't forget to check out our blog post on the  Brief History Of Microbiology!

See you next week for our interview with Andrew Klein from Gian Microbes!

For the final week of March Mead Madness, we bring you part II of our interview with Mead Master Jotham Kinder!

How does yeast affect the flavor of alcohol? Are their "extremophile meads"? What's the strangest thing Jotham has put into mead? Should you back sweeten or stop fermentation? This is more in our final installment of March Mead Madness! 

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Week 3 of March Mead Madness! Not excited about mead yet? Join us for another interview with mead connoisseur Jotham Kinder. Find out what his Microbe Moment is and his journey into the world of home brewing. Find out what exactly a mead is and what yeast is the best to make mead. Jotham is full of brilliant imagery to entertain and explain the wonderful world of homebrewing! 

The Yeast Feast Episode: From Brewers Yeast to Sourdough Nothing Has Quite Domesticated Us Like Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. Jon and Tess, Ph.D. discuss everything Saccharomyces cerevisiae from the history to the uses and back again.

If you think this little microbe hasn't impacted your life positively I guarantee you are wrong. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is incredible! Honestly, we could have talked about it for days and still not covered all the ways it changed YOUR life. But we'd like to share just a few ways this microbe has made countless microbe moments that transcends space, time, and culture!

Hey, my microbe friends! Welcome to March Mead Madness, all month long we will be talking about mead. In this first segment we will discuss the history of mead. Where does the term honeymoon come from? What role does mead play in literature? What are the different kinds of meads? Can bees get drunk? All this and more answered in our Brief History of Mead podcast. 

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Every month we bring you our favorite microbiology news from extremophiles to medical, from agriculture to biotech; we give you all the up-to-date info on everything microbe news. In this month we look at the stories from how extremophiles are being studied for their antimicrobial activity to how microbes may be helping pandas make love. We also look at how V. cholerae regulates biofilm formation, the genes of Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5, and how fecal transplants may be helping cancer treatment.

To find out more or to find our sources check out the Blog Post 

Today I sit down with a good friend of mine, Dr. Nichole Ginnan who is a postdoc. Nichole tells us about her life studying plant microbiomes and her journey through academia. Her academic pursuits have brought her all the way across the country, from the East coast to the West coast. We chat about her current position as a post-doc and her future career goals. 

You can connect with Nichole on Twitter

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We made it all the way to episode 20. Honestly, we are shocked. We decided to give you this extra episode this week highlighting our very best/ worst pick up lines. Some are microbe focused but most are just in the realm of biology and chemistry. So gather your nerd friends, perhaps a periodic table, and enjoy!