The microbigals's Podcast

As promised, we are back with part two of our Black Lives Matter In Microbiology Series. This is the second of two parts and here we discuss 5 more prominent Black microbiologists that changed science. This episode highlights 5 famous microbiologists that helped shape the history of microbiology. 

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We've all heard of Louis Pasteur or Robert Koch but there are so many Black famous microbiologists that never get their story told. So in honor of Black History Month, we are bringing you a two-part series highlighting the top 10 black microbiologists that changed the history of microbiology. This episode highlights 5 microbiologists including Dr. William Augustus Hinton, Jane Hinton, Dr. Ruth Ella Moore, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price, and Dr. Harold Amos. 

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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 discussing tardigrades' ability to save medical microbiology to how researchers study extremophiles. We look at some very intense Nature papers on microbiomes as well as the prospect of poultry probiotics. It's all here in January's Da Bom! 

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Hello, my microbe friends!  Did you enjoy part 1? Part II gets even better as we discuss the last 5 examples of helpful microorganisms. If you enjoyed today's show please give us a follow! Have some feedback or an idea for a future show email us at [email protected].

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Hello, my microbe friends! In Today's podcast, Jon and I will bring you our favorite examples of helpful microorganisms. We have so much fun recording this podcast and we hope you have a blast with it too. So whether you laugh with us or laugh at us we hope you learn something new and share your new facts with a least one friend. Think your up to the challenge? 

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In today's episode, we talk about the fabulous Dr. Margaret Jane Pittman. She worked on infectious diseases from cholera to whooping cough and became a cornerstone of Microbiology research in the 20th century. Join us as we discuss this remarkable woman's journey into microbiology history. We'll not only discuss her life and legacy but the scientific discoveries Pittman brought to the world. 

More information and our sources for this episode can be found in our blog post about her.

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 we found most interesting in 2020; from microbes on Venus to COVID-19 to the Nobel prize for CRISPR. 

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This week I sat down with kombucha brewer, Chris Drozd and his SCOBY named Toby to discuss the wonderful fermented drink: kombucha! Enjoy! You can find Chris on Instagram, chris.drozd, or on Twitter, @microbe_manager.

“The Tuskegee Study Of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” went on for 40 years. It caused generations of Black Americans to mistrust medicine, making it one of the bleakest points in the history of microbiology. Join Jon and Tess as they dive deeper into this study, the history of syphilis, and Treponema pallidum's hold on humanity.