Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth
A video podcast documentary from the American Society for Microbiology. Composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals, the mission of ASM is to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for the improvement of health, economical and environmental well-being worldwide. Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth is a production of Baker & Simon Associates in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting. For more information, visit us on the web at www.microbeworld.org.
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MWV Episode 5 - Brian Malow live at the Koshland Science Museum
MicrobeWorld and the Koshland Science Museum present a video podcast of comedian Brian Malow that includes excerpts from his science comedy act on infectious disease and an interview about the geek mystique of science.\Malow is also a contributing editor to the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a s …
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MWV Episode 4 - Save the Microbes Save the World (Part 3)
Part 3 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History's 2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel was introduced by Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science fo …
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MWV Episode 3 - Save the Microbes Save the World (Part 2)
Part 2 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History's 2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel was introduced by Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science fo …
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MWV Episode 2 - Save the Microbes Save the World (Part 1)
Part 1 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural History's 2007 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series entitled Save the Microbes, Save the World: The Fate of Microbial Life on a Changing Planet. The panel was introduced by Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science fo …
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Yellowstone Revealed (Part 2)
Walter Cronkite reviews the history of Yellowstone National Park, discusses the microbe that led to the Polymerase Chain Reaction technique used for fingerprinting DNA, and parallels Costa Rica to Yellowstone's hot springs as areas of important, but still largely unexplored, biodiversity. The video …
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Yellowstone Revealed (Part 1)
Walter Cronkite describes the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, including the park's microbial world and how the extreme environment of the park's hot springs may serve as a model for the possibility life on other planets. The video podcast of Yellowstone Revealed is presented by the American So …
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Intimate Strangers (Series Trailer)
The video podcast trailer for episodes of Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth.
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A Friendly Enemy
A look at the common food pathogen called Salmonella and how it spreads. And the hunt for the cause of English Sweating Sickness that once ravaged the English countryside in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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The View from the Forest
Dr. Dan Janzen and Dr. Ignacio Chapela catalog both the larger and microbial life forms inside a single ecosystem in Costa Rica, finding that neither plants, animals, nor microbes would be able to exist without the others.
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MWV Episode 23 – Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? (Part 3)
In the final episode of this 3 part video series on how to optimize antibiotic use and how to minimize the emergence of drug resistant pathogens, Dr. Linda Tollefson, Assistant Commissioner for Science at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, goes in depth on the use of antimicrobial drugs in agric …
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MWV Episode 22 – Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? (Part 2)
On September 18, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Dr. Stuart Levy, professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dr. Linda Tollefson, Assistant Commissioner for Science at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, discussed how to opt …
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MWV Episode 21 - Antibiotics: Is a Strong Offense the Best Defense? (Part 1)
Will we become defenseless against bacteria? Will bacteria always find a way to infect and even kill us? The emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria poses an enormous problem around the world. Scientists believe that the overuse of antibiotics is increasing the appearance of these path …
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MWV Episode 20 – The Singing Toxicologist
He's been referred to as the "Elvis of E. coli", the "Sinatra of Salmonella," and in this episode of MicrobeWorld Video the "singing toxicologist." Whatever you call him, Carl Winter, Extension Food Toxicologist and Director of the FoodSafe Program at UC Davis, performs parodies of contemporary popu …
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MWV Episode 19 - West Nile Virus
West Nile virus entered the United States in 1999 and is now considered a seasonal epidemic that starts in the summer and continues into the fall. First isolated in Uganda in 1937, the virus can cause severe human meningitis or encephalitis in 1% of those infected. In 2007 the U.S. Centers for Dis …
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MWV Episode 18 - The One Health Initiative
Ronald Atlas, former President for the American Society for Microbiology, discusses the new One Health Initiative that recognizes the inter-relationships among human, animal, and environmental health and seeks to enhance communication, cooperation, and collaboration in integrating these areas for th …
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MWV Episode 17 – Return to Zambia
The American Society for Microbiology is helping African nations foster a scientific community that is better able to address the current and future problems that threaten not only the local population, but the world at large. Like many African countries, Zambia and South Africa are deeply aff …
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MWV Episode 16 – Canary in a Coal Mine
Coral reefs are dying a death of a thousand cuts and their disappearance threatens not only the incredibly diverse ecosystem that depends on them, but also human health and welfare. In this episode of MicrobeWorld Video marine scientists Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Ph.D., chair of marine studies at the Uni …
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MWV Episode 15 – Modern Transportation and Infectious Disease
From your local bus route to international air travel, infectious diseases can spread across the globe in a matter of hours. In this video podcast episode filmed at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Stephen Eubank from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute of Virginia Tech and Daniel …
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MWV Episode 14 – HIV/AIDS Education
Description: In this episode of MicrobeWorld Video we ask some leading researchers, education specialists, and public health officials about the state of HIV/AIDS education in America and ideas they have to support the teaching of microbial evolution using the latest HIV/AIDS research — all while in …
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MicrobeWorld Interviews Cast and Producers for Television’s ReGenesis
ReGenesis is an award winning science drama produced by Toronto’s Shaftesbury Films that centers on the fictitious North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission. NorBAC’s special operations team, headed by the brilliant but unpredictable Molecular Biologist Dr. David Sandström (Peter Outerbridge) …
Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth
