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  • Talia

    Thanks for the request :)

    1 year ago
  • Yersinia

    Hey there!
    There's a new journal called Viruses that's open access and it had a special issue about subviral RNAs. I contributed this review article http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/2/1/189 about host proteins that interact with HDV (it was part of my thesis but I expanded it to be a comprehensive review of everythign out there on this topic). I'm actually working on a review right now about RNA promotors that is really exciting, I just don't know when I'll have time to finish or where would be best to submit.
    I'm currently switching gears and doing some biofilms, which is really cool since I previously had no experience with them, and tomorrow I'm meeting with a collaborator to do some SEM which is really exciting for me since I have never had the opportunity to do any SEM (its been years since I've done any microscopy to be honest).
    How have you been? I don't know if I'll have anything to present at ASM this year, but I'll definitely try for next! If I have enough money in my budget I might just come out to attend, though its always more fun to have something to present :)
    Take care!
    V
    PS -- do you ever go to CSM or AABB??

    1 year ago
  • Yersinia

    Hello my micro friends!
    Long time no see! Myspace has been giving me problems, and I've been so busy that I haven't been on here in ages! But things are going great for me -- I'm doing my post doc working with psychrophilic bacterial contaminants of blood products, and I've started working on biofilm microbiology which is awesome! I love basic research, but the industry/applied aspects are great too; its an awesome feeling to know that something you've been working on can be directly applied to have a communal benefit! I'm also going to be working with people who do SEM and hope to get some awesome micrographs of my favorite bugs!
    Not sure if I will make it to San Diego, but it looks awesome! I have been out of the conference loop for a while and can't wait to get involved again! Definitely will be doing something for AABB this fall, so I need to get my act together and get some great data to present!
    Now that my son is getting into books, and now that I'm working, I can't wait to snag some of the ASM press books like "Invisible ABCs" for him; I really wish I had snagged that "Future Microbiologist" kid's T-shirt back in 2007! I hope he is as passionate about microbes as I am!
    Do you have a Facebook page? I sometimes go on there as well, its good for social networking with peers and there are also a lot of great micro groups!
    I've got a paper in the new journal "Viruses" -- its all access so feel free to check it out and I hope you find it useful! Working on another review paper as well!
    Take care and hope to hear from you soon!
    V

    1 year ago
  • Madd Morphine








    (Unicellular alga Penium, treated with the microtubule poison oryzalin)

    2 years ago
  • Madd Morphine


    Treponema denticola


    Porphyromonas gingivalis


    Helicobacter pylori


    Escherichia coli

    (pics from http://www.yaplakal.com/forum2/st/50/topic267640.html)

    2 years ago
  • Madd Morphine


    ©Volker Brinkman

    "An electron microscope catches the immune system blooming into action. A white blood cell (red) wraps itself around a mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of most cases of tuberculosis. Phagocyte, as a white blood cell is known as, comes from the Greek word phagein (to eat), and that's what the cell does, rendering the infectious cell benign." (http://www.spiegel.de)

    2 years ago
  • Madd Morphine

    time ago i was reading about those 'metal-eating' bacteria that belong to the Geobacter genus... the little guys in the pic are eating uranium waste.

    i think i'd risk an indigestion...

    2 years ago
  • Madd Morphine

    amoebae!



    2 years ago
  • Madd Morphine

    do you know Microbial art? http://www.microbialart.com/

    this site is a "collection of unique artworks created using living bacteria, fungi, and protists."

    here are some of my favourite works:


    The first four petri dishes (by Niall Hamilton) are fungi and bacteria on agar.
    The others (by Eshel Ben-Jacob) are "part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colors and shading are artistic additions, but the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of individual microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature."

    more artists and galleries at http://www.microbialart.com/

    2 years ago
  • Elliot Lawrence

    hey, cool page thanks for creating it/ maintaining it!

    2 years ago
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MicrobeWorld is a family of programs that includes a video podcast by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) highlighting the latest in microbiology, life science, and related topics. In addition, MicrobeWorld has several podcasts; Meet the Scientist, This Week In Virology and Mundio de los Microbios. ASM is composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals with the mission to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well-being worldwide. 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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Carl Zimmer: Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media (MWV39)


On May 25th, 2010 science writer Carl Zimmer gave a keynote address at the American Society for Microbiology's General Meeting in San Diego, California. The presentation entitled “Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media” was given at the President’s Forum, “Telling the Story of Science.”
Zimmer is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches writing about science and the environment.
In addition to writing books, Zimmer contributes articles to the New York Times, as well as magazines including National Geographic, Time, Scientific American,Science, and Popular Science. He also writes an award-winning blog, The Loom. From 1994 to 1998 Zimmer was a senior editor at Discover, where he remains a contributing editor and writes a monthly column about the brain. Zimmer also hosts "Meet the Scientist," a podcast from the American Society for Microbiology.

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