BacterioFiles 219 - Fungi Facilitate Photosynthetic Fuels

Fungal mycelium
Image credit: Roslyn Noar

This episode: Fungi can act like sticky nets to help harvest algae for biofuels!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria produce substance that could control harmful algal blooms (paper)

Bacterial proteins in gut can protect mice from rotavirus

Beware of contamination in microbial sequence survey studies

Passionate kissing can transfer a lot of bacteria (not always a bad thing)

Mouse virus can act like gut bacteria in maintaining gut health

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BacterioFiles 218 - Parasitoids Pass Protective Prokaryotes

Such a cute parasitoid
Arrows indicate Wolbachia
Ahmed et al. 2015

This episode: Parasitoid wasps spread helpful bacterial symbionts between their whitefly prey!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Making magnetic bacteria do a dance (w/ video)

Viruses have influenced evolution and genetics of plants, including wine grapes

Deep-sea fungus produces potentially useful chemicals (paper)

Effective genetic modification of fungi could lead to useful biotech processes

Microbe-shaped (though not microbe-flavored) popsicles

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BacterioFiles 217 - Fungus Fortifies Fly Food

This episode: Fruit flies have microbes that help them get more nutrition out of low-quality food!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Strategies for treating infections without antibiotics

Increased interest in microbes for agriculture

Our genetics seem to affect our gut microbiota

Algae farm over highway consumes CO₂ from cars

Fly bacteria engineered to prevent sleeping sickness tranmission (paper)

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BacterioFiles Special - ASM2015

Here's my summary of ASM2015, an exciting weekend full of science.

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The convention center in NOLA

Bird in a bayou

Not solid ground

Your host

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