Meet The Scientist
About this original series
At Meet the Scientist, we want to reveal more about scientists, the work they do, and what makes them tick. We’ll ask them what they’re up to now and what’s next. How is the science moving forward to solve some of the intractable problems of our times? What keeps them going in a tough, competitive field? What do they see for the future of research, education, and training? We hope to show you a glimpse of what scientists are really like and what’s going on in cutting-edge research today.
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# Episodes
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Rating
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Episodes of Meet The Scientist
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MTS56 - Susan Golden - Clocks for Life
In this podcast, I talk to Susan Golden, the co-director of the Center for Chronobiology at the University of California at San Diego. We talked about Golden's research into time--in particular, how living things know what time it is. While you may have heard of our own "body clock" that tracks the 24-hour cycle of the day, it turns out that some bacteria can tell time, too. Golden has discovered how evolution has produced a molecular clock inside microbes far more elegant than any manmade tim...
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Release date
Aug 18, 2010
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Runtime
37:27
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MTS55 - Nancy Moran - The Incredible Shrinking M...
How many genes can a species lose and still stay alive? It turns out, bacteria can lose just about all of them! In this podcast, I talk to Nancy Moran of Yale University about her fascinating work on the microbes that live inside insects such as aphids and cicadas. After millions of years, they have become stripped down creatures that are revealing some profound lessons about how superfluous most genes are--at least if you live inside a host.
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Release date
Aug 4, 2010
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Runtime
52:20
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MTS54 - Carl Bergstrom - The Mathematics of Micr...
In this podcast I talk to Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington about the mathematics of microbes.Bergstrom is a mathematical biologist who probes the abstract nature of life itself. We talk about how life uses information, and how information can evolve. But in Bergstrom's hands, these abstractions shed light on very real concerns in medicine, from the way that viruses jam our immune system's communication systems to to the best ways to fight antibiotic resistance.
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Release date
Jul 14, 2010
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Runtime
39:56
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MTS53 - Bonnie Bassler - The Bacterial Wiretap
In this podcast I talk to Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton and the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology.Bassler studies the conversations that bacteria have, using chemicals instead of words, Her research is not only helping to reveal how bacteria work together to make us sick, but also how we might interrupt their dialogue in order to cure infections.
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Release date
Jul 1, 2010
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Runtime
37:05
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MTS52 - Mitchell Sogin - Expeditions to the Rare...
In this podcast, I talk to ;Mitchell Sogin, the
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Release date
Jun 17, 2010
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Runtime
42:06
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MTS51- James Liao - Turning Microbes into Fuel R...
In this podcast I talk to ;James Liao, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer at UCLA. I spoke to Dr. Liao about his research into engineering microbes to make fuel. Today, we get most of the fuel for our cars out of the ground. It's a process fraught with dangerous consequences, from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the rise in global temperatures thanks to greenhouse gases. Dr. Liao is among a growing number of scientists who think that microbes can help us...
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Release date
Jun 2, 2010
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Runtime
26:38
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MTS50.5 - The Making of the Meet the Scientist P...
To mark the celebration of Microbeworld's 50th episode of the Meet the Scientist podcast, we created a time lapse video that shows exactly what it takes to produce a single episode of the show.We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes look and we thank you for listening week after week. Cheers, to another 50 episodes!
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Release date
May 21, 2010
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Runtime
02:15
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MTS50 - R. Ford Denison - Darwin on the Farm
In this podcast, I talk to R. Ford Denison of the University of Minnesota. Denison is an evolutionary biologist who's interested in how to make agriculture better. The ways in which plants thrive or fail are shaped by their evolutionary history, as well as the evolution that unfolds every planting season. We're most familiar with the evolution of resistance to pesticides in insects and to herbicides in weeds. But evolution has many other effects on farms. For example, many important crop plant...
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Release date
May 19, 2010
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Runtime
38:41
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MTS49 - Irwin Sherman - The Quest for a Malaria ...
In this podcast, I talk with Irwin Sherman, professor emeritus at the University of California at Riverside, about the century-long quest for a vaccine against malaria.Scientists have been trying to make a vaccine for the disease almost since the discovery of the parasite that causes malaria. Yet decade after decade, they've encountered setbacks and failures. We talked about why it's so hard to make a malaria vaccine, and how likely it is that scientists will ever be able to do so in the futur...
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Release date
May 5, 2010
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Runtime
54:42
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MTS48 - Keith Klugman - Pneumonia: The Hidden Gi...
In this podcast I talk to Keith Klugman, William H. Foege Chair of Global Health at Emory University. Dr. Klugman studies the disease that is the number one killer of children worldwide. If you guessed malaria or AIDS, you’d be wrong. It’s pneumonia. Two million children under five die every year from it every year--one child every 15 seconds. Dr. Klugman and I spoke about his research on how pneumonia causes so much devastation, its hidden role in the 50 million deaths in the 1918 flu pandemi...
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Release date
Apr 21, 2010
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Runtime
26:32
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