Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth, Outbreak, The Blob, Twelve Monkeys, An Inconvenient Truth,
Television
Star Trek (All of them), Law and Order (all of them), CSI - Las Vegas, CSI - Miami, Mythbusters, Iron Chef, Alton Brown
Books
Microbe, Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives, Antisepsis, Disinfection, and Sterilization: Types, Action, and Resistance, Archaea: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Manual of Clinical Microbiology, HIV and the Pathogenesis of AIDS, The Invisible ABCs, A Chronology of Microbiology in Historical Context, Many Faces - Many Microbes: Personal Reflections in Microbiology
Heroes
Antony Leeuwenhoek, Edward Jenner, Carl Woese, Joseph Lister, Norm Pace, Robert Koch, Hazel Barton, Louis Pasteur, Ignaz Semmelweis, Paul Ehrlich, R.J. Petri, Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovski, Walter Reed, Martinus Beijerinck, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Agostino Bassi de Lodi, Moselio Schaechter
About me:
MicrobeWorld is a daily 90 second science news podcast designed to increase understanding and appreciation of microbiology, biotech and the life sciences. For more information about microbes, videos, news and resources visit us online at www.microbeworld.org. In the meantime, join our virtual biofilm by quorum sensing with us (a.k.a. "Add to Friends.")
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West Nile virus entered the United States in 1999 and is now considered a seasonal epidemic that starts in the summer and
continues into the fall. First isolated in Uganda in 1937, the virus can cause severe human meningitis or encephalitis in 1%
of those infected. In 2007 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 124 fatalities. The rapid spread of West Nile virus
has put local and state mosquito surveillance programs on the front line of public health and disease preparedness.
In this episode, MicrobeWorld Video interviews Dr. Jorge Arias, an expert in vector-borne diseases of the Americas. Arias
currently serves as the Environmental Health Supervisor of the Fairfax County Health Department in Northern Virginia. In this
role, he is responsible for directing the Disease-Carrying Insects Program which focuses on West Nile virus and Lyme
disease.
For more information about West Nile virus, please visit:
This episode was filmed at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, the Fairfax County Health Department, Huntley Meadows Park in Fairfax, Va., and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
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Who I'd like to meet: Microbiologists, scientists, researchers, students, geeks and anyone interested in science.
Do you have a reference for the work done on probiotics inhibiting shiga-toxin production that was mentioned in the recent episode or has it not been published yet? My research is in the area of probiotics, haven't heard about this trait until now, very interesting!
Interesting post on bats/rabies. In belem i've seen bat bites. they aren't like on tv. the bats get you while you sleep biting tiny pools on your fingertips and toes which they lap up. they sometimes come so many times the people can become anemic. jojo
Hey guys! Long time no see! I hope you had a blast in Boston, I wanted to go SOOOOOOO badly, I had such an amazing time last year and Boston is such a lovely city! But I was 8 months pregnant at the time, and it's probably a good thing I didn't go because the baby decided to come early :) I wish I had scooped up that "future microbiologist" shirt last year LOL Other than that, I'm *almost* done the PhD, just have to finish writing the thesis and defend it. After that I want to do some teaching before starting the PDF full time, still no idea what I'll do but I think I'm going to go back to bacteriology; ♥ bacteria more than viruses. I hope I can come to ASM 109th next year, I might be able to get some funding before my scholarship is done, and it would be awesome to go to Philly, there are definitely some things I'd like to do there! Take care and all the best! Valerie
Thanks for your comment! I'm glad that there is such an interest in the microbe world videos and that I was able to be a part of them!
GAH I am on ASMs mailing list now and they had to go and send me their fall catalogue.... so I was browsing and decided to do a little pre-Christmas shopping for myself.... I can resist anything except temptation... so I went ahead and ordered another book... Irwin Sherman has a follow up to The Power of Plagues, so I had to check it out... so within 5-10 business days I should be reading it!
So, just listened to the last radio blurb. I haven't read the paper yet, but it is on my list.
Question: Is cheating perhaps a phenomenon of in vitro evolution? Evolution happens. In a mono culture flask there will always be those that evolve to "cheat" and take advantage of the system. As you progress toward in situ reality, this becomes less important. With greater diversity, you introduce interspecific competition as well as intraspecific competition. This changes expression patterns, and survival becomes more of a challenge for the population as well as for the individual. The more complex the environment, the less you will find the capability of single cells to evolve to "cheat".
I've been busy since Toronto, but I finally had the chance to start reading one of my ASM Press purchases, "The Power of Plagues" -- Its *awesome*, totally up my alley! Reminiscent of "The Fourth Horseman" but more recent and inclusive of modern day pestilence -- a very good read!
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