Today, Dr. Marcy Balunas, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, as well as part of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how her group investigates the chemical signals—the language—between host and microbe symbioses.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Marcy Balunas
Download MM#67 (40 MB mp3, 67 min)
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Links for this episode
- An article on bacterial colonial variation during domestication, by Dr. Roberto Kolter and colleagues.
- The Tiny Earth Project to crowdsource new bacterial sources of antibiotic compounds.
- An overview of chemical ecology.
- Description of how analytical chemistry is used to investigate symbioses.
- A description of how MALDI is used to identify compounds.
- A description of how LC M/S is used to identify compounds.
- A description of some work done on tunicate-microbe associations by the Balunas lab.
- Dr. Jonathan Klassen collaboration.
- An article on ant based fungal farming.
- Dr. Spencer Nyholm collaboration.
- An article on the squid nidamental gland.
- Dr. Irene Newton collaboration.
- An article on bee associated microbes that protect against fungal infection.
- A video describing some of the work done by the Balunas laboratory on ant fungus farming with Dr. Klassen.
- Dr. Balunas faculty website.
- Balunas laboratory website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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