BacterioFiles

491: Less Liquid Lands Losing Lichens

This episode: Trends of declining lichen populations and biocrust cover overall match trends of increasing temperatures in Colorado dryland! Download Episode (6.4 MB, 9

490: Parasitoid Pox Partners

This episode: A virus partners with a parasitoid wasp to help exploit fruit fly victims! Download Episode (7.7 MB, 11.2 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode:

489: Soil Smell Synthesis Significance

This episode: Many organisms produce the smell of earth, geosmin, and many others can sense it–but why? Download Episode (6.0 MB, 8.7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe o

488: Social Slimes Synchronize Sorties

This episode: Slime mold amoebas Fonticula alba have interesting and unique foraging and reproductive behaviors! Download Episode (7.3 MB, 10.6 minutes) Show notes:

487: Probiotic Pulverizes Pathogen Persisters

This episode: A probiotic strain of E. coli can target and destroy pathogens that survive a treatment of antibiotics! Download Episode (8.2 MB, 12 minutes) Show note

486: Biohybrid Bacteria Build Biomass

This episode: Incorporating light-absorbing molecules into bacterial membranes can allow bacteria to use solar energy to transform nitrogen gas into fertilizer! Downloa

485: Small Cell Sculpts Sticky Snot Sphere

This episode: A marine protist predator traps prey microbes in an attractive bubble of mucus, eats what it wants, and lets the rest sink, possibly sequestering significan

484: Bacteriophages Boost Brains

This episode: Certain phages in the gut are linked with increases in performance on some cognitive tests! Download Episode (7.5 MB, 10.9 minutes) Show notes: Microb

483: Recycling Resources Raises Robustness

This episode: Adding tags to proteins to increase their degradation can help engineered bacteria grow and survive better under various conditions! Download Episode (7.3

482: Colony Concentric Clock Construction

This episode: Single-celled bacteria can act independently to create patterns and structure in their biofilm communities! Download Episode (9.6 MB, 14.0 minutes) Sho

481: Hijacker-Host Sequence Swap

This episode: Gene transfers between viruses and eukaryotes have happened many times throughout evolutionary history! Download Episode (7.5 MB, 10.9 minutes) Show no

480: Bait Bottlenecks Bear Bacteria

This episode: Human-based food used as bait by hunters can reduce bears' gut microbe diversity! Download Episode (5.9 MB, 8.6 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the ep

479: Uncomplicated Critters Conquer Cancer

This episode: Simple microscopic animals can survive extreme radiation by ejecting damaged cells that might otherwise become cancer! Download Episode (7.3 MB, 9.2 minut

478: Babies Bear Bacterial Birthright

This episode: How family members share gut microbes across multiple generations! Download Episode (7.3 MB, 10.7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Dyozeta

477: Hijackers Hitchhike on Hyphal Highways

This episode: Bacteriophages can hitch a ride on bacteria they don't infect to travel through soil on fungal filaments, potentially helping their carriers by infecting an

476: Bamboo Breakdown Benefits Beetle Babies

This episode: Beetles inoculate bamboo with a fungus that consumes the bamboo sugars to feed the beetle larvae! Download Episode (7.7 MB, 11.2 minutes) Show notes:

475: Modifying Mixed Microbiota

This episode: New techniques allow specific modifications in certain members of a complex community of microbes, without isolating them in pure culture first! Download

474: Stalker Cells Stop Seafood Sickness

This episode: Predatory bacteria could protect lobster farms from disease-causing bacteria! Download Episode (4.8 MB, 7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode:

473: Bacteriophage Bunks in Bacterial Barriers

This episode: A bacteriophage that overcomes the bacterial CRISPR/Cas immune system by interrupting the CRISPR DNA with its own genome! Download Episode (6.8 MB, 10 min

472: Caulobacter Condensates Compartmentalize Kinase

This episode: Bacteria can use blobs of disordered proteins to quickly adapt to new conditions!   Thanks to Dr. Saumya Saurabh for his contribution! Download Episode (1