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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BacterioFiles 203 - P. putida Promotes Plant Pollutant Purification

This episode: Bacteria living in plants could help plants clean up cancer-causing pollutants!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

NCSU Master's of Microbial Biotechnology Website
Paul Hamilton: website/email

Other interesting stories:

Amphibian skin bacteria can fight deadly infectious fungus (paper)

Human skin fungus surprisingly found in harsh ocean environments

Using bacteria to remove stinky compounds from wastewater

Making painkillers from microbes instead of plants

Fungal parasites only influence behavior of their specific ant host species

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BacterioFiles 202 - Controlling Coliform Computers

This episode: Programming bacteria to sense and keep genomic records of environmental inputs!

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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

NCSU Master's of Microbial Biotechnology Website
Paul Hamilton: website/email

Other interesting stories:

Biocontrol fungus responds offensively to plant pathogen (paper)

Fungi that zombify ants lurk in wait outside ant colony for fresh victims

We need caution interpreting microbiome data

Algal viruses can have big impact on algal blooms, and thus on CO₂

Some cyanobacteria can grow using only far-red light that's invisible to us

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BacterioFiles 201 - Plastic-Producing Prokaryote Process

PHB granules in cells

This episode: Bacteria from wastewater treatment sludge can produce lots of biodegradable plastic!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Soil bacterium spores could treat tumors when injected

In mice, antibiotics early in life disrupt metabolism

Figuring out what our microbiome does in the body after we die (paper)

Microbes affect geological formations in caves

Insect gut microbes may be good source of new antibiotics

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