Today, Dr Ariane Briegel, Professor and head of the Integrative Structural Cell Biology research unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss some of the exciting findings of her research group studying how bacteria and the ever-popular Hawaiian bobtail squid work together at a molecular level—using cutting-edge cryo-electron tomography!
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Ariane Briegel
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Links for this episode
- The (somewhat venerable) “The Eighth Day of Creation” discussed in this episode.
- A lovely article about the much missed Dr. Esther Lederberg. Here is another I much enjoyed.
- A website devoted to Dr. Esther Lederberg.
- A fun video reminder of the symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Euprymna scolopes.
- A review of cryo-electron tomography as applied to the study of bacterial structures.
- A book coauthored by Dr. Briegel on the use of this technology to study cell-microbe interactions.
- A video on the topic of cryo-electron tomography.
- Another video by Dr. Briegel on this topic.
- An earlier episode of #MattersMicrobial with Dr. Briegel.
- An article by the Moore Foundation that supports the work of Dr. Briegel.
- A article describing how cryo-EM can be applied to whole organisms, like roundworms.
- Research websites for collaborators on this project, Dr. Edward Ruby and Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai.
- Dr. Briegel’s laboratory website.
- Dr. Briegel’s academic website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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