Matters Microbial

By Mark O. Martin

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Episodes: 117

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Matters Microbial is a podcast about the wonders of microbiology, microbiologists, and microbial centrism with Dr. Mark Martin

Episode Date
Matters Microbial #117: Cancer Virus Hunters and Molecular Biology
Dec 08, 2025
Matters Microbial #116: Microbes in the Concrete Instead of the Abstract
Nov 14, 2025
Matters Microbial #115: Suiting Up Against Bacterial Predators!
Nov 07, 2025
Matters Microbial #114: A Tongue-n-Cheek Look at the Oral Microbiome
Oct 31, 2025
Matters Microbial #113: Microbes That Swim, Swarm, Stand Up—and 'Walk'
Oct 24, 2025
Matters Microbial #112: Bacterial Size, Stress, and Antibiotic Resistance
Oct 17, 2025
Matters Microbial #111: Shocking Tales of Metal-Loving Microbes
Oct 10, 2025
Matters Microbial #110: Enumerating the Microbiome
Oct 03, 2025
Matters Microbial #109: Bat-Crazy About Rabies
Sep 26, 2025
Matters Microbial #108: Neanderthal Oral Health, Ancient Bacteria and DNA
Sep 19, 2025
Matters Microbial #107: Listeria Sprouting Hysteria?
Sep 11, 2025
Matters Microbial #106: Cells Without Walls – Full-Frontal Bacteria
Sep 06, 2025
Matters Microbial #105: Snails Farming Bacteria in the Deep Sea
Aug 29, 2025
Matters Microbial #104: Antibiotic "Tolerance" and Biofilms
Aug 22, 2025
Matters Microbial #103: Giant Bacteria and Bigger Questions
Aug 15, 2025
Matters Microbial #102: Teaching Through the Issues with Microbes!
Aug 01, 2025
Matters Microbial #101: Electrifying News about Cable Bacteria
Jul 25, 2025
Matters Microbial #100: What's the Buzz on Phage Therapy for Honeybees?
Jul 17, 2025
Matters Microbial #99: Albert Kluyver—Microbial Unity and Diversity in Metabolism
Jul 10, 2025
Matters Microbial #98: Nesting Dolls of Endosymbiosis
Jul 04, 2025
Matters Microbial #97: Microbes in the Air (Way)
Jun 27, 2025
Matters Microbial #96: Molecular Microbiology in High Schools
Jun 20, 2025
Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story
Jun 13, 2025
Matters Microbial #94: One Health and Microbiomes Everywhere
Jun 06, 2025
Matters Microbial #93: Preventing Antibiotic Resistance
May 29, 2025
Matters Microbial #92: Microbial Metabolism in Extreme Places
May 22, 2025
Matters Microbial #91: You Are What Your Genes Feed Your Microbiome
May 16, 2025
Matters Microbial #90: Using Soil Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture
May 08, 2025
Matters Microbial #89: Can AI Point Us to New Antibiotics
May 01, 2025
Matters Microbial #88: Microbial Interactions in Cystic Fibrosis
Apr 24, 2025
Matters Microbial #87: Dietary Protein and the Microbiome
Apr 17, 2025
Matters Microbial #86: Intraterrestrials — the Strangest Life on, and in, the Earth
Apr 10, 2025
Matters Microbial #85: The Microbiomes of Hawai'ian Seascapes
Apr 03, 2025
Matters Microbial #84: Detecting Pathogens — and Worse — in Wastewater
Mar 27, 2025
Matters Microbial #83: Helicobacter — Passing the Acid Test
Mar 20, 2025
Matters Microbial #82: Melanin, Fungi, and Global Warming
Mar 13, 2025
Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates
Mar 06, 2025
Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists?
Feb 27, 2025
Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat
Feb 20, 2025
Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
Feb 13, 2025
Matters Microbial #77: It's a Germ-Eat-Germ World!
Feb 06, 2025
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
Jan 30, 2025
Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?
Jan 23, 2025
Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation
Jan 16, 2025
Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome
Jan 09, 2025
Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water?
Jan 02, 2025
Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment
Dec 26, 2024
Matters Microbial #70: Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance
Dec 19, 2024
Matters Microbial #69: Can Eating Microbes Make You Healthy?
Dec 12, 2024
Matters Microbial #68: Social Evolution in Viruses
Dec 05, 2024
Matters Microbial #67: Chemical Communication in Microbe Symbioses
Nov 28, 2024
Matters Microbial #66: Digesting the Science of Fermented Foods
Nov 21, 2024
Matters Microbial #65: Squishy Tissues and Hints from Archaea
Nov 14, 2024
Matters Microbial #64: Making Sense of the Microbiome
Nov 07, 2024
Matters Microbial #63: A Symphony of Cyanobacteria
Oct 31, 2024
Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells
Oct 24, 2024
Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy
Oct 17, 2024
Matters Microbial #60: Influenza, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Fortunate Mistakes
Oct 10, 2024
Matters Microbial #59: Some (Microbes) Like It Hot—Discussions with the Thermal Biology Institute
Oct 03, 2024
Matters Microbial #58: The Virosphere from Coral Reefs to Other Worlds
Sep 26, 2024
Matters Microbial #57: Pitting Metabolic Inhibitors Against Viruses
Sep 19, 2024
Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution
Sep 12, 2024
Matters Microbial #55: An accidental microbiologist
Sep 05, 2024
Matters Microbial #54: In the shadow of giant viruses
Aug 29, 2024
Matters Microbial #53: Heavy metal microbes!
Aug 22, 2024
Matters Microbial #52: A relationship between the microbiome and nasopharyngeal cancer?
Aug 15, 2024
Matters Microbial #51: From Legionella to mentoring to outreach
Aug 08, 2024
Matters Microbial #50: One versus many, the evolution of multicellularity
Aug 02, 2024
Matters Microbial #49: Microbes and Macrobes: Always Interconnected
Jul 25, 2024
Matters Microbial #48: Many are bright but few are chosen
Jul 18, 2024
Matters Microbial #47: A lifetime enamored with microbes
Jul 11, 2024
Matters Microbial #46: Parsley, Sage, Cholera, and Thyme with Nkrumah Grant
Jul 04, 2024
Matters Microbial #45: CU Later Microbes: Copper as an Antimicrobial Agent!
Jun 27, 2024
Matters Microbial #44: Labs, Labs, Congress, and Classrooms!
Jun 21, 2024
Matters Microbial #43: New Archaea from old habitats
Jun 06, 2024
Matters Microbial #42: Many paths to microbiology with Jessica Buchser
May 30, 2024
Matters Microbial #41: Giant Bacteria: Not All Are Small! with Esther Angert
May 23, 2024
Matters Microbial #40: Using THOR's hammer to investigate microbial communities
May 16, 2024
Matters Microbial #39: Global flatulence: Mysterious Archaea and methane
May 09, 2024
Matters Microbial #38: Microbes, cheese, and Brie-ond!
May 02, 2024
Matters Microbial #37: Wolbachia and STEM: Two symbioses!
Apr 25, 2024
Matters Microbial #36: Leafy microbial strangers with benefits
Apr 18, 2024
Matters Microbial #35: Clostridioides difficile: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again
Apr 12, 2024
Matters Microbial #34: Artificial gut feelings: Gut microbes and the ECM
Apr 04, 2024
Matters Microbial #33: Ancient Fats in Modern Microbes with Paula Welander
Mar 28, 2024
Matters Microbial #32: What's bugging ants, microbially speaking?
Mar 21, 2024
Matters Microbial #31: Spirochetes do things...differently
Mar 14, 2024
Matters Microbial #30: Deep (Marine Microbial) Thoughts with Jennifer Biddle
Mar 01, 2024
Matters Microbial #29: Exploring cave microbiology and career paths with Hazel Barton
Feb 23, 2024
Matters Microbial #28: From Lizard Cloacal Microbes to CPG in the Business Sector with Franny Gilman
Feb 16, 2024
Matters Microbial #27: Broccoli sprouts, gut health, and microbes for all with Dr. Sue Ishaq
Feb 09, 2024
Matters Microbial #26: Cultivating the hidden microbial majority
Feb 02, 2024
Matters Microbial #25: Gut feelings about phage and the gut microbiome
Jan 25, 2024
Matters Microbial #24: It takes a quorum to cause disease
Jan 18, 2024
Matters Microbial #23: Fungi: Cool Friends and Looming Foes
Jan 05, 2024
Matters Microbial #22: A microbial path through the graduate school maze with Lauren Augusta
Dec 29, 2023
Matters Microbial #21: Microbes, mermaids and coral reefs with Chris Kellogg
Dec 22, 2023
Matters Microbial #20: Who You Calling Weird? Diving into Microbes at the Bottom of the Ocean
Dec 15, 2023
Matters Microbial #19: You are what you(r microbes) eat
Dec 08, 2023
Matters Microbial #18: The Perfect Predator: Why Phage is Rage
Dec 01, 2023
Matters Microbial #17: Evolution in action for everyone with Vaughn Cooper
Nov 24, 2023
Matters Microbial #16: What's bugging the fruit fly microbiome?
Nov 17, 2023
Matters Microbial #15: A Gut Feeling About Precision Medicine
Nov 10, 2023
Matters Microbial #14: An inordinate fondness for viruses with Jack Gilbert
Nov 03, 2023
Matters Microbial #13: (Magnetically) attractive bacteria with Arash Komeili
Oct 27, 2023
Matters Microbial #12: Shedding light on symbiosis with Ruth Isenberg
Oct 20, 2023
Matters Microbial #11: Viruses from hell with Ken Stedman
Oct 13, 2023
Matters Microbial #10: Bacterial fight club
Oct 06, 2023
Matters Microbial #9: Colorful microbes, citizen science, and tools for all
Sep 29, 2023
Matters Microbial #8: Who goes there? Going deep in the Pine Barrens with Lauren Seyler
Sep 22, 2023
Matters Microbial #7: Microbiology from the refrigerator with Elinne Becket
Sep 15, 2023
Matters Microbial #6: What's the buzz on honeybee microbes? With Irene Newton
Sep 07, 2023
Matters Microbial #5: Mothers, Microbes, and Dung Beetles
Sep 01, 2023
Matters Microbial #4: Extreme Microbial Closeups: Cryo-EM and Fine Structure of Microbes with Ariane Briegel
Aug 25, 2023
Matters Microbial #3: How much of you is microbial? With Seth Bordenstein
Aug 18, 2023
Matters Microbial #2: Shock and awe microbiology and a chat with Mya Breitbart
Aug 11, 2023
Matters Microbial #1: A microbiological introduction and a chat with Vincent Racaniello
Aug 07, 2023