Podcasts about Carl Woese

Today, Dr. Jennifer Goff of the Department of Chemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her laboratory's work studying the relationship between microbes in metal, as well as her path in the microbial sciences. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Jennifer Goff Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode  A fine remembrance of Carl Woese from the journal Nature. A wonderful book by the great David Quammen that emphasizes the impact Carl Woese had on biology. An article by yours truly on the impact Carl Woese has on my students. An overview of biogeochemistry. The carbon cycle and how the microbial world is involved with the process. The nitrogen cycle and how the microbial world is involved with the process. An article about tellurium and microbes. An older overview of how microbes are involved in mining, as well as a more recent article on that topic. A review of metals and microbes. Dr. Goff's faculty website. Dr. Goff's fascinating laboratory group website, including links to the papers discussed by Dr. Goff. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Today, Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the central importance of archaea to our knowledge of the microbial world, ranging from history of their study, misconceptions about archaea, the microbiological bounty of Yellowstone National Park, and how ancient archaea may be the Asgard like ancestors of us all. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Roland Hatzenpichler Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A solid video describing the archaea. A wonderful if dated (ASM, you need to make an updated version) video about the contributions of Carl Woese to the description of the archaea. An essay by yours truly about Carl Woese (and the only time I will EVER be published in the journal RNA Biology.) A more solid essay about Carl Woese. A MUST READ article by Ed Yong on the role that Norm Pace has played in understanding the microbial world. An article about the role Yellowstone National Park has played in microbiology. An article about the wonderful “underwater oasis” called “Asgard.” A wonderful article by Ed Yong about what could be our remote ancestors, the Lokiarcheota.   The first paper that was mentioned:  Carl Woese's discovery of the archaea.  From the second group of articles that were mentioned:  archaea are everywhere. From the third group of articles that were mentioned:  archaea drive biogeochemical cycles. From the fourth group of articles that were mentioned:  Lokiarcheota may bridge the gap between prokaryote and eukaryote. A video on extremophiles from Dr. Hatzenpichler. Dr. Hatzenpichler's faculty profile. Dr. Hatzenpichler's quite wonderful laboratory website. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Today Dr. Ken Stedman, Professor of Biology at Portland State University, tells us about the strange and wonderful viruses of heat loving extremophilic archaea—truly viruses from Hell! Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Ken Stedman Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode A popular article about Markus Martin's work as a fossil expert extraordinaire. Markus Martin's website.   One of Markus Martin's academic articles on trilobites. An interesting article on the complexity of colony morphology by Bacillus subtilis. An article about Serratia, prodigiosin, and temperature.   An article I wrote about educational aspects of the work of the late great Carl Woese. An introduction to the diverse and fascinating archaea.   An introduction to the viruses of archaea. Ken Stedman's fascinating laboratory website. Ken Stedman's faculty website. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

Today Sebastian Cocioba, a citizen scientist with myriad interests, talks with us about his path in science, some of the tools he has made for others, and how he views science and scientists.  Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Sebastian Cocioba Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The article on Carl Woese that I wrote can be found here. An article on the felt sculpture of Carl Woese is here. The artist who created that sculpture, Amy Wright, has a website here. The American Society for Microbiology's moving and informative video about Carl Woese is here. A heartwarming snippet from “Ted Lasso” regarding the Walt Whitman quote is here. Here is a great interview with Sebastian Cocioba.   Sebastian Cocioba's website is here.   Sebastian Cocioba's online research notebook is here.  Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com

https://medicienterprises.com/2023/02/04/show-611/

Today on Mushroom Hour we have the privilege of interviewing Phil Ross of MycoWorks. A pioneer in cultivating living materials for art and design, Phil began using mycelium in the 1990s as a medium for sculpture. Almost three decades on, Phil and his team of artists are now complemented by engineers, biologists, production specialists and material scientists in bringing the first Fine Mycelium™ material, Reishi™, to the world. Anyone who sees his work or hears him speak, can't help but have their mind set alight by a spark of inspiration. Phil is one of those unique individuals who can take something ancient, like fungi, and derive novel uses for it that not only shift how we see fungi, unlock new ideas and new fields of discovery, but really expand humanity's entire “realm of the possible”. His lifetime of work with mycelium hints at the vast ocean of infinite opportunities that await humanity as we explore kingdom fungi.    TOPICS COVERED:   Cooking as a Primer on the Practicum of Biotechnology  Push and Pull of Tropisms  Fungi as a Cypher to Understand Nature  From Forests to Graffiti - Learning to “Read” the Environment  Polypore Inspirations for Reishi™ Fine Mycelium Leather Products  Indigenous Use of Mycelium Leather  Medicinal Qualities of Reishi Mushrooms  Cultural Responses to the Gross and the Grotesque  Fashion as a Means of Communication  How MycoWorks Creates Reishi™ Fine Mycelium Leather  Mycelium Sheet Polymer & Leathercraft Learning Curves  Scaling Up to the Future of MycoWorks  The Transformation of Phil Ross  Future of Mycelium Materials   EPISODE RESOURCES:   Mycoworks website: https://www.mycoworks.com/  Mycoworks IG: https://www.instagram.com/mycoworks/  Louis Pasteur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur  Claude Levi-Strauss "The Raw and the Cooked": https://www.amazon.com/Raw-Cooked-Mythologiques-Claude-L%C3%A9vi-Strauss/dp/0226474879  Rudy Rucker "Ware Tetralogy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ware_TetralogyCarl Woese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Woese  Susan Oyama "Evolution's Eye": https://www.amazon.com/Evolutions-Eye-Systems-Biology-Culture-Cultural/dp/0822324725  Ganoderma lucidum (fungus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_lucidum   Lenzites betulina (fungus): https://www.mushroomexpert.com/lenzites_betulina.html

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Today, we're going to discuss classification. We're going to briefly skim over how people historically used to organise life, before the establishment of the prokaryote-eukaryote division which would stay in place until an American scientist called Carl Woese rocked the taxonomic boat... Sources for this episode: 1) Craine, A. G., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2020), Carl Woese (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021]. 2) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Taxonomy (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021]. 3) Some of the discussion is based on my previous education on the topic, as I completed a Massive Open Online Course 'Emergence of Life' covering this topic in 2018.

https://medicienterprises.com/2021/03/06/show-511/

David Quammen is an author and journalist whose books include The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a work on the science, history, and human impacts of emerging diseases (especially viral diseases), which was short-listed for eight national and international awards and won three. His shorter books Ebola (2014) and The Chimp and the River(2015) were drawn from Spillover, each with a new introduction. His forthcoming book (August 2018) is The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, which explores the drastic revisions in understanding of life's history on Earth forced by recent discoveries from genome sequencing, and the story of a scientist named Carl Woese. In the past thirty years, Quammen has also published a few hundred pieces of short nonfiction—feature articles, essays, columns—in magazines such as Harper's, National Geographic, Outside, Esquire, The Atlantic, Powder, and Rolling Stone. He writes occasional Op-Eds for The New York Times and reviews for The New York Times Book Review. Quammen has been honored with an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. He was a Contributing Writer for National Geographic, in whose service he travels often, usually to wild and remote places. Home is Bozeman, Montana. Connect with David Quammen: https://www.davidquammen.com/ Get David's books Twitter: @DavidQuammen Personal Health Coaching: https://www.primalosophy.com/ Nick Holderbaum's Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods (T): @primalosophy (IG): @primalosophy iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-primalosophy-podcast/id1462578947 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A The Unfucked Firefighter Challenge

We have a groundbreaking discussion with Prof Philip Hugenholtz co-founder of Microba, a company specialising in Metagenomic Stool Testing using DNA based sequencing to analyse the microbiome. We cover the history and application of DNA based sequencing to classify and identify micro-organisms, using the technology to improve health outcomes on a personalised level, the future prospects for precision medicine, IBD, what a healthy microbiome looks like and much more.     Bio:    Professor Hugenholtz is a microbiologist who has made contributions in the field of culture-independent analysis of microorganisms. He discovered and characterised numerous previously unrecognised major bacterial and archaeal lineages each with greater evolutionary divergence than animals and plants combined. He has participated in the development and application of metagenomics, the genome-based characterisation of microbiomes, which has revolutionised our understanding of microbial ecology and evolution. He has made several discoveries in environmental and clinical microbiology sometimes overturning decades of misdirected culture-based studies.   Topics discussed:   Phil’s Origin story Microbial Classification and Morphology  The Development of DNA based sequencing technology Carl Woese- 16s rRNA - ribosomal RNA sequencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Woese Did we evolve from ancient Archaea? Norm Pace- Application of 16s rRNA sequencing in Ecology  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_R._Pace  Culture indépendant analytical techniques Craig Venter- Metagenomic Sequencing  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter Blueprints for identifying bacteria Development of Sequencing Technology Discovery of Microbes Growing Microbes on plates What is the Greengenes reference database 16s rRNA genes identification vs Whole Genome shotgun sequencing (Metagenomics) Metagenomics, Big Data and health patterns The limitation of 16s rRNA technology- conserved genes Whole Genome Sequencing Resolution ITS gene and Fungal Classification Virus and Parasite Classification  The Metagenomic workflow GTDB Database for Whole-genome sequencing Predicting IBD, IBS, Crohns Predicting response to drug response- Depression, Cancer The Gut Microbiome as an early warning system The future of Microbiome What does a healthy cohort’s gut microbiome look like? Discovery of new species Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Anti Inflammatory genes and properties  The uniqueness of the gut microbiome Characterising IBD The impact of the immune system Opportunistic Pathogens- Clostridium difficile, Bilophila wadsworthia, Desulfovibrio, Helicobacter pylori  Gut Metabolite production by microbes- e.g GABA  (a neurotransmitter linked to depression) via KEGG The future of Gut Microbiome Testing Metabolomics Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms for health predictions Diet as a key driver of the microbiome Personalised Diet based on a microbiome profile Prebiotics and Probiotics and Precise Medicine Fibre and Butyrate Balance Phil’s top gut health tip Microbiome changes and improved mental health via diet and exercise      Brought to you by:   Nourishme Organics- The Gut Health Superstore   Check out the Microba Metagenomic Stool Testing and Nutritional Consulting Package for Personalised advice on how to optimise your gut health based on your unique microbiome   https://www.nourishmeorganics.com.au/products/gut-explorer-pro-metagenomic-stool-testing-personalised-nutrition-consultation   Use code guthealthgurus for 10% off     Connect with Prof Phil Hugenholtz   Website- https://www.microba.com/       Connect with Kriben Govender:    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/kribengee/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/kribengovender/ Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/c/Nourishmeorganics?sub_confirmation=1 Gut Health Gurus Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nourishmeorganics/ Deuterium Depletion Support Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/347845406055631/   Download links                 If you enjoyed this episode and would like to show your support:   1) Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, give us 5 stars and leave a positive review     Instructions:   - Click this link  https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/gut-health-gurus-podcast/id1433882512?mt=2   - Click "View in Itunes" button on the left-hand side - This will open the Itunes app - Click the "Subscribe" button - Click on "Ratings and Reviews" tab - Click on "Write a Review" button   Non-Itunes users can leave a Google Review here: https://goo.gl/9aNP0V     2) Subscribe, like and leave a positive comment on Youtube   https://www.youtube.com/c/Nourishmeorganics?sub_confirmation=1   3) Share your favourite episode on Facebook, Instagram, and Stories 4) Let your friends and family know about this Podcast by email, text, messenger etc   Thank you so much for your support. It means the world to us.

David Quammen is an award-winning science writer, author, and journalist covering the most promising trends in conservation and evolutionary science for the past 30 years. We invited him on the show to discuss his latest feature for National Geographic, where he is a regular contributor, about Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique — once touted by none other than E.O. Wilson in a podcast interview with Mongabay as a place where inspiring restoration efforts are underway and benefitting nature, wildlife, and people. We also discuss Quammen’s most recent book, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, which explores the revolution in how scientists understand the history of evolution on Earth sparked by the work of Carl Woese, and his coverage of virology in light of the recent Ebola outbreak. He shares his thoughts on all of this plus what gives him hope that biodiversity loss and destruction of the natural world can be halted. Here’s this episode’s top news: From over 100,000 species assessments in IUCN update, zero improvements June 2019 was the hottest on record: NOAA U.S. Virgin Islands bans coral-damaging sunscreens Please invite your friends to subscribe to this show via Android, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spotify or wherever they get podcasts. Visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep this show growing, Mongabay is a nonproft media outlet and all support helps. See our latest news at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay.  

David Quammen joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his new book, A Tangled Tree, including evolutionary trees, Carl Woese, Lynn Margulis, horizontal gene transfer, and much more. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Guest: David Quammen Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO David's website David on TWiV 408, Boston Quammens Axel Erlandson's trees reimagined - Gilroy Gardens Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv

This conversation is absolutely fascinating. In fact, it blew me away. My guest for this episode is science, nature, and travel writer David Quammen. David's books have included The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin which chronicles' Charles Darwin's reluctance to publish his On the Origin of Species, Spillover which later informed shorter books Ebola and The Chimp and the River: How AIDS emerged from the African Forest. David has also written hundreds of articles for the likes of National Geographic, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic, amongst others. The bulk of this episode however relates to David's latest book The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, which explores the dramatic revisions in our understanding of life's history on this planet caused by recent discoveries of genome sequencing and the story of a scientist called Carl Woese. You will also hear about the concept of ‘horizontal gene transfer' amongst others which revolutionises our understanding of the human genome, how we think about all species of life on earth and other profound and radical implications. David has a wonderful knack in his writing and speaking for making science understandable and pleasurable to absorb. We get into all of that and much more including: David's background in writing and how he got into writing about science and nature; Pandemics and what we know and don't know about them, drawing heavily on David's recent writing on the Ebola outbreak in West and Central Africa; The various themes of The Tangled Tree; The role of personalities in science – to quote David “science itself, however precise and objective is a human activity”; The risks and implications of some of the findings described in The Tangled Tree; Much, much more Show notes: David's website; David on Twitter; The Tangled Tree: A Radical History of Life on Earth; Review of the Tangled Tree in the New York Times Spillover; Ebola; The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged From the African Forest; The Reluctant Mr. Darwin; Horizontal gene transfer; Carl Woese; Barbara McClintock; CRISPR  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Get your free audio book and 30 day free trial at Audible: US listeners: get your free trial and audio book at Audible UK listeners: get your free trial and audio book at Audible _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Have you made a big decision lately? We'd love to hear how you did it – take this short anonymous survey. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Like what you heard? Subscribe and/or leave a rating and review on iTunes: http://apple.co/1PjLmK Subscribe on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/all-things-risk/the-all-things-risk-podcast Subscribe on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ben-cattaneo Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiskThings Drop us a note: allthingsrisk@gmail.com  

My guest is David Quammen. In his new book The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (https://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Tree-Radical-History-Life/dp/1476776628), this nonpareil science writer explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection—a type of HGT. In The Tangled Tree David Quammen, “one of that rare breed of science journalists who blends exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling” (Nature), chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them—such as Carl Woese, the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth century; Lynn Margulis, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about “mosaic” creatures proved to be true; and Tsutomu Wantanabe, who discovered that the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a direct result of horizontal gene transfer, bringing the deep study of genome histories to bear on a global crisis in public health. “Quammen is no ordinary writer. He is simply astonishing, one of that rare class of writer gifted with verve, ingenuity, humor, guts, and great heart” (Elle). Now, in The Tangled Tree, he explains how molecular studies of evolution have brought startling recognitions about the tangled tree of life—including where we humans fit upon it. Thanks to new technologies such as CRISPR, we now have the ability to alter even our genetic composition—through sideways insertions, as nature has long been doing. The Tangled Tree is a brilliant guide to our transformed understanding of evolution, of life’s history, and of our own human nature. David Quammen’s fifteen books include_ The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and _Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. He has written for Harper’s, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, Outside, and Powder, among other magazines, and is a contributing writer for National Geographic. He wrote the entire text of the May 2016 issue of National Geographic on the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem—the first time in the history of the magazine that an issue was single-authored. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, an environmental historian, along with two Russian wolfhounds and a cross-eyed cat. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com. Special Guest: David Quammen.

David Quammen's book "The Tangled Tree: A New History of Life" tells the story of evolution through the eyes of Carl Woese, a not-terribly-famous but truly ingenious revolutionary who flipped evolution on its side, literally 90 degrees. He upended Darwin's famous tree of life, showing that genes can come from almost anywhere. Woese's contributions are believed by some to be as great as Darwin's. The view of evolution that Woese brought truly was a genuine revolution. Here, David Quammen engages with Perry Marshall in a wide ranging conversation about who the real heroes in evolutionary science actually are. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this dialogue with one of the best nature and science writers of our generation, David Quammen and Michael Shermer discuss his new book on the history of one of the most exciting revolutions in evolution and genetics that is unfolding before our eyes. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection—a type of HGT. In The Tangled Tree David Quammen chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them—such as Carl Woese, the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth century; Lynn Margulis, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about “mosaic” creatures proved to be true; and Tsutomu Wantanabe, who discovered that the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a direct result of horizontal gene transfer, bringing the deep study of genome histories to bear on a global crisis in public health. As well, Quammen and Shermer discuss how molecular studies of evolution have brought startling recognitions about the tangled tree of life—including where we humans fit upon it. Thanks to new technologies such as CRISPR, we now have the ability to alter even our genetic composition—through sideways insertions, as nature has long been doing. They consider the ethical issues involved in bringing back extinct species, the meaning of the “self” if we are actually mosaics of different species, and the trans-humanist dream of re-engineering the human genome so our species can become post-human. David Quammen is the author of a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including Blood Line and The Song of the Dodo. His book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic was a finalist for seven awards and received two of them: the Science and Society Book Award, given by the National Association of Science Writers, and the Society of Biology (UK) Book Award in General Biology. A three-time National Magazine Award winner, he is a contributing writer for National Geographic and has written also for Harper’s, Outside, Esquire, The Atlantic, Powder, and Rolling Stone. He received honorary doctorates from Montana State University and Colorado College. He travels widely on assignment, usually to jungles, mountains, remote islands, and swamps.  

Luciano Queiroz, Lucas Camargos, Cristiano Silvério, Felipe Benites e Atila Iamarino discutem a origem e as implicações de um assunto que dominam: os domínios da vida. Biólogo sabe o que é vida? Vida é igual pornografia? Carl Woese parece uma tia velha? Bactérias se reproduzem por esquema de pirâmide? Os mimivírus são cheios de mimimi? Isso a globo mostra? E o Morgan Freeman seria uma boa adição ao Dragões de Garagem?

Vincent, Michael, and Stanley review the scientific career of Carl Woese.

This is the first official podcast from thescientist, in the series; "Microbes, the little guys". In this episode we discuss the structure and information to expect from this podcast and also the taxonomic classification of life. The classification systems mentioned include the dichotomous Plant / Animal Linneas system, the 5 kingdom system by Whittaker and the widely adopted 3 Domain system by Carl Woese and George Fox. The three domain system proposed by Woese et al. had its basis in molecular biology rather than purely visual or structural characteristics and compares the sequence of the ribosome to create and identify evolutionary relationships as well as act as a bar code for the identification of organisms.