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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BacterioFiles 200 - Converted Clostridium Consumes Carbon monoxide

This episode: Carbon monoxide-eating bacteria get modified to produce more useful products!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Other mosquito microbes compete with and inhibit Wolbachia

Helicobacter extract seems to help prevent asthma (paper)

Lots of microbes living in water drops suspended in tar

Spores could be good for vaccines delivered to mucosal surfaces (review)

Various archaea are floating around in the air (paper)

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