BacterioFiles 208 - Discovering Dietary Dwellers

Bifidobacterium
microbewiki.kenyon.edu

This episode: Dr. Angela Zivkovic discusses the microbes present in our food!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Archaea seem to be producing vitamin B₁₂ in oceans

Tree microbiomes differ between species like animals'

Some bacteria can help plants form root nodules better (paper)

Biofilms can be useful materials for different things, like sticking to steel

Electricity from microbe metabolism could power waste treatment

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BacterioFiles 207 - Microbe Messages Mire Malaria Movement

Green fluorescence shows α-gal expression
Yilmaz et al. 2014

This episode: Gut microbes may induce an immune response that protects against malaria!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Gut bacteria help immune responses even in the lungs (of mice)

Conductive bacteria can encase themselves in uranium

Discovering and prepping bacteria to degrade environmental pollutants

Using bacteria to reduce arsenic toxicity in rice

Soil fungi protect potatoes from parasites

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BacterioFiles 206 - Mollusc Maneuvers Microbe Machines to Macerate Maples

Shipworm, in or out of wood.
O'Connor et al, 2014.

This episode: When digesting wood, shipworms outsource their microbial symbionts from gut to gills!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Swimming alga Euglena could help treat iron overdose (paper)

Bacteria in bees could produce useful antimicrobials

Tough bacteria could help make nuclear waste storage safer

Learning about ancient cultures from their fossilized feces (paper)

Using phages to make wastewater treatment better

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BacterioFiles 205 - Colon Community Counterattacks Cholera

This episode: Microbes in the human gut seem to prevent/inhibit cholera!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Gut microbes make lots of chemicals; some inhibit pathogens (paper)

Bacteria produce inhibitors of fungal crop pathogens (paper)

Phages could make pathogens less able to infect, in addition to killing them

Recycling diapers by growing mushrooms in them

Not ethanol, or butanol: now, biopropane

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BacterioFiles 204 - Animalcules Assist Agave Amino Accumulation

Dr. Jim White

This episode: Bacteria living in plants seem to be contributing to plants' nutrition, possibly reducing the need for fertilizer!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Certain gut bacteria associated with lower risk of food allergy in mice

Bacteria produce antifungal compounds, could protect crops (paper)

Plant partner microbes knock on roots to signal their presence

Microbes in your home form unique community, move with you to new locations

Bacteria interfere with wine fermentation via prions

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