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MTS34 - Pratik Shah - Combatting Pathogens with Polyamines
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Pratik Shah is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in ... Read more
28 Aug 2009
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121: Microbial Interkingdom Interactions with Deb Hogan
121: Microbial Interkingdom Interactions with Deb Hogan
Microbial interactions drive microbial evolution, and in a polymicrobial infection, these interactions can determine pat... Read more
21 Nov 2019
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081: Developing infectious disease diagnostics with Melissa Miller
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How are new diseases detected in a clinical microbiology lab? Melissa Miller talks about the time it takes to develop a ... Read more
26 Apr 2018
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119: Microbiome Diversity and Structural Variation with Ami Bhatt
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How do medical professionals incorporate microbiome science into their patient care? Ami Bhatt discusses her research on... Read more
24 Oct 2019
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120: Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospital Sinks with Amy Mathers
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Many hospital-acquired bacterial infections are also drug-resistant. Amy Mathers describes her work tracking these bacte... Read more
8 Nov 2019
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087: Legionnaire’s Disease with Michele Swanson
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108: Microbes, Heme, and Impossible Burgers with Pat Brown
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122: Prions and Chronic Wasting Disease with Jason Bartz
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Can a protein be contagious? Jason Bartz discusses his work on prion proteins, which cause spongiform encephalopathy and... Read more
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070: Influenza vaccine and susceptibility with Stacey Schultz-Cherry
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093: Biofilms and metagenomic diagnostics in clinical infections with Robin Patel
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Robin Patel discusses her work on prosthetic joint infections and how metagenomics is changing infectious disease diagno... Read more
18 Oct 2018
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101: Structural Biology Insights into Ebola Virus with Erica Ollmann Saphire
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7 Feb 2019
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113: Bacteriophage Interactions in the Gut with Jeremy Barr
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067: MRSA in agriculture and zombie epidemiology with Tara C. Smith
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Tara C. Smith discusses her work uncovering ties between agriculture and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MR... Read more
12 Oct 2017
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071: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Advocacy with Peter Hotez
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Peter Hotez talks about neglected tropical diseases: what are they, where are they found, and where did the term “neglec... Read more
8 Dec 2017
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076: Evolution of bacterial biofilm populations with Vaughn Cooper
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105: HPV vaccination with Doug Lowy
105: HPV vaccination with Doug Lowy
How did discoveries made with bovine papillomavirus help scientists develop the human papillomavirus vaccine? Doug Lowy ... Read more
5 Apr 2019
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MTS32 - Arthur Guruswamy - Mycobacterial and Fungal Pathogens
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Arthur Guruswamy is a clinical microbiologist in Virginia’s Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Lab... Read more
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110: Metagenomic Sequencing for Infectious Diseases Diagnostics with Charles Chiu
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Most diagnostic tests look for a single microorganism, or at most a limited panel of microorganisms. Charles Chiu discus... Read more
13 Jun 2019
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