BacterioFiles 235 - Dust DNA Detectives with Dr. Dunn

Rob Dunn, NC State University

This episode: I talk with Dr. Rob Dunn about his team's research into determining where a dust sample comes from based on the microbes present in it!


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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
The Dunn lab
Books

Other interesting stories:

Certain gut bacteria could help animals feed on new foods (paper)

Potential for engineering our own microbiome

Bacteria could help clean up radioactivity at Fukushima

Bacteria could make better fruit fly traps (paper)

Acid-resistant bacterium could help with stomach infections (paper)

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BacterioFiles 234 - Phone, Floor Phylum Forensics

This episode: Learning things about people's identity and movements from microbial communities on their phones and shoes!


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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria that live in the deepest part of the ocean

Gut bacteria, birth conditions, and weight are related (paper)

Bee microbiomes stay pretty constant

Early gut bacteria associated with food allergy risk

Gut bacteria could relate to ability to control blood sugar

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BacterioFiles 233 - Messy Microbes Maintain Mouse Microbiota

This episode: Mice in less sanitary conditions have more diverse gut communities and perhaps less allergy!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Fertilizer leads to less-helpful soil bacteria

Sponge bacteria help corals get phosphorus

Another way to use microbial electricity to produce hydrogen

Soap has bacteria too

Corals are eating plastic; is it harmful?

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BacterioFiles 232 - Exploring Enzymes' Element Effects

This episode: Bacteria can convert soluble uranium to an insoluble form, and distinguish between different isotopes!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria could help degrade environmental chemical contaminant (paper)

Phage could treat dental infections

Bacteria and grass together clean up soil

Mutant E. coli keeps getting longer without dividing

Algae could produce malaria vaccine

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