Matters Microbial

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

Matters Microbial #87: Dietary Protein and the Microbiome
Apr 17, 2025 – 01:02:32
Matters Microbial #86: Intraterrestrials — the Strangest Life on, and in, the Earth
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:02:38
Matters Microbial #85: The Microbiomes of Hawai’ian Seascapes
Apr 3, 2025 – 01:00:13
Matters Microbial #84: Detecting Pathogens — and Worse — in Wastewater
Mar 27, 2025 – 01:01:30
Matters Microbial #83: Helicobacter — Passing the Acid Test
Mar 20, 2025 – 01:07:13
Matters Microbial #82: Melanin, Fungi, and Global Warming
Mar 13, 2025 – 59:16
Matters Microbial #81: Viruses, Innate Immunity, and Undergraduates
Mar 6, 2025 – 01:05:55
Matters Microbial #80: Do Microbes Make the Best Chemists?
Feb 27, 2025 – 59:58
Matters Microbial #79: How Amoebae Beat the Heat
Feb 20, 2025 – 59:13
Matters Microbial #78: An EXTREME Close Up of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
Feb 13, 2025 – 59:11
Matters Microbial #77: It’s a Germ-Eat-Germ World!
Feb 6, 2025 – 01:04:09
Matters Microbial #76: Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!
Jan 30, 2025 – 01:05:38
Matters Microbial #75: Do Gut Microbes Watch their Carbs?
Jan 23, 2025 – 01:07:06
Matters Microbial #74: Podcasting to Combat Microbial Misinformation
Jan 16, 2025 – 01:01:56
Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome
Jan 9, 2025 – 01:05:44
Matters Microbial #72: Who is in Your Water?
Jan 2, 2025 – 01:05:20
Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment
Dec 26, 2024 – 01:07:34
Matters Microbial #70: Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance
Dec 19, 2024 – 01:04:45
Matters Microbial #69: Can Eating Microbes Make You Healthy?
Dec 12, 2024 – 01:12:03
Matters Microbial #68: Social Evolution in Viruses
Dec 5, 2024 – 01:02:04
Matters Microbial #67: Chemical Communication in Microbe Symbioses
Nov 28, 2024 – 01:06:45
Matters Microbial #66: Digesting the Science of Fermented Foods
Nov 21, 2024 – 01:06:40
Matters Microbial #65: Squishy Tissues and Hints from Archaea
Nov 14, 2024 – 01:06:28
Matters Microbial #64: Making Sense of the Microbiome
Nov 7, 2024 – 01:01:26
Matters Microbial #63: A Symphony of Cyanobacteria
Oct 31, 2024 – 01:11:58
Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells
Oct 24, 2024 – 01:07:16
Matters Microbial #61: All In Due Time–How Bacteria Wake from Dormancy
Oct 17, 2024 – 01:01:17
Matters Microbial #60: Influenza, Epidemics, Pandemics, and Fortunate Mistakes
Oct 10, 2024 – 01:10:34
Matters Microbial #59: Some (Microbes) Like It Hot—Discussions with the Thermal Biology Institute
Oct 3, 2024 – 01:10:09
Matters Microbial #58: The Virosphere from Coral Reefs to Other Worlds
Sep 26, 2024 – 53:43
Matters Microbial #57: Pitting Metabolic Inhibitors Against Viruses
Sep 19, 2024 – 01:04:49
Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution
Sep 12, 2024 – 57:24
Matters Microbial #55: An accidental microbiologist
Sep 5, 2024 – 01:03:56
Matters Microbial #54: In the shadow of giant viruses
Aug 29, 2024 – 01:06:21
Matters Microbial #53: Heavy metal microbes!
Aug 22, 2024 – 01:06:33
Matters Microbial #52: A relationship between the microbiome and nasopharyngeal cancer?
Aug 15, 2024 – 52:32
Matters Microbial #51: From Legionella to mentoring to outreach
Aug 8, 2024 – 01:01:57
Matters Microbial #50: One versus many, the evolution of multicellularity
Aug 2, 2024 – 01:07:45
Matters Microbial #49: Microbes and Macrobes: Always Interconnected
Jul 25, 2024 – 58:14
Matters Microbial #48: Many are bright but few are chosen
Jul 18, 2024 – 56:04
Matters Microbial #47: A lifetime enamored with microbes
Jul 11, 2024 – 01:00:55
Matters Microbial #46: Parsley, Sage, Cholera, and Thyme with Nkrumah Grant
Jul 4, 2024 – 59:41
Matters Microbial #45: CU Later Microbes: Copper as an Antimicrobial Agent!
Jun 27, 2024 – 45:37
Matters Microbial #44: Labs, Labs, Congress, and Classrooms!
Jun 21, 2024 – 59:15
Matters Microbial #43: New Archaea from old habitats
Jun 6, 2024 – 01:03:02
Matters Microbial #42: Many paths to microbiology with Jessica Buchser
May 30, 2024 – 59:54
Matters Microbial #41: Giant Bacteria: Not All Are Small! with Esther Angert
May 23, 2024 – 56:22
Matters Microbial #40: Using THOR's hammer to investigate microbial communities
May 16, 2024 – 01:03:11
Matters Microbial #39: Global flatulence: Mysterious Archaea and methane
May 9, 2024 – 58:34
Matters Microbial #38: Microbes, cheese, and Brie-ond!
May 2, 2024 – 01:11:10

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Content much appreciated

I am a practicing Clinical Nurse Specialist, employed by an Infectious Disease practice. Talk about carbon, oxy, and anthropocentric. I deeply appreciate the obvious love you bring for your craft, field, peers and learners of all kinds. It is lovely to recall that there is a wider, weirder world beyond our typical blinders. Thank you so much for all you do. It absolutely matters. I look forward to your podcast each week. I suspect I’m not the only one. Cheers, Greg Greenberg AGCNS
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Enthusiasm for science!

I am an unabashed fan of all of the TWIX podcasts, and MM is another excellent addition to the family. It’s quite different from the other podcasts, in that it has more of an interview bias, but I really enjoy hearing scientists talk about their science. I think anyone who teaches microbial sciences should listen, and have their students listen as well. Everyone on this show is incredibly enthusiastic about what they do, and it shows. So listen and learn! We can all be micronauts!