Matters Microbial #76:  Marvelous Multicellular Magnetotactic Microbes!

January 30, 2025

Today, Dr. George Schaible, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the exciting work he did during his PhD to unravel a fascinating topic:  multicellular magnetotactic microbes!

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: George Schaible

Download MM#76 (39.5 MB mp3, 66 min)
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  • What is a postdoctoral scholar in microbiology? 
  • A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about giant bacteria from Dr. Esther Angert.  
  • A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about magnetotactic bacteria from Dr. Arash Komeili.
  • A previous #MattersMicrobial podcast about multicellularity in microbes from Dr Will Ratcliff.  
  • The transformative Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
  • An article describing the value of the Microbial Diversity Course. 
  • I wrote this blog post on Chlorochromatium aggregatum consortium for Small Things Considered many years ago.  
  • The “pink berry” consortium at Woods Hole.
  • A research paper on genetic interactions within the pink berry consortium, coauthored by a former undergraduate researcher of mine, Dr. Danielle Campbell.  Yes, I am very proud.
  • A strategy to easily enrich for magnetotactic bacteria from nature. Here is a video that informs and amuses.  
  • An early report of multicellular magnetotactic microbes.
  • The research article under discussion in today’s podcast.
  • A link to Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler’s laboratory website (Dr. Hatzenpichler was the originator of this research, all the way back to his own attending the Microbial Diversity Course.).
  • The deeply strange genome(s) of Achromatium.
  • An introduction to nanoSIMS technology.
  • An introduction to stable isotope probing.
  • The laboratory website of Dr. Jean-Marie Volland, where Dr. Schaible works at UC Santa Barbara

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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