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Happy Halloween Nature Nerds! This week Jen shares some news about how people react to Haunted Houses and then Megan talks folks getting stuck in Chimneys, the plight of Chimney Sweeps, and bats! We hope you enjoy! Organization to Support: Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation (MTBC) https://www.merlintuttle.org/ No group of mammals has been more misunderstood, needlessly feared, or intensely persecuted than bats. Relying on a powerful combination of science, field knowledge, and photography, MTBC is helping save millions of bats, protecting public health, economies and worldwide ecosystems by teaching people to live harmoniously with bats through Merlin's one-of-a-kind experience. Our mission: inspiring bat conservation worldwide.
Charles and Jon interview the original Batman, Dr Merlin Tuttle, from his home in Austin, Texas. Merlin has spent 60 years studying - and working to help - bats around the world and his photos and research have been featured in multiple National Geographic articles, the journal Science, and many other places. He founded and led Bat Conservation International for nearly 30 years, left BCI, then founded Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation in 2014 where he remains active. He is a true legend.In a fascinating chat we hear about his skill in training bats (and one bat's particular skill in training Merlin), and how he believes the secret to conservation success is from trying to win friends not battles. He also remembers that time he risked being eaten by a pride of lions so he could photograph a bat with a Mohican haircut. Notes: Merlin Tuttle's website has a wealth of bat information. Of course it does! We loved looking through Merlin's stunning collection of bat photographs and most of the species he mentioned can be found by searching in the MTBC Photo gallery. Here are pictures of the Chaerephon chapini in Zimbabwe, during the hunt for which he had to hide from Lions. Here is the little Hardwicke's Wooly Bat which demanded to be fed in Borneo (and this is the video Merlin mentioned). And here is a scorpion-hunting Pallid Bat from the USA. Many other links are here, including one to join Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation (MTBC) or donate to support the very important work they do.You might be interested in joining MTBC as a member to get updates, or joining Merlin in an upcoming bat research trip to Zambia's beautiful Kasanka National Park this November: a few spots are still available https://www.merlintuttle.org/bats-of-kasanka-national-park-mtbc-2022/. Cover art: Merlin Tuttle calling a Little big-eared bat to his hand for mealworms.Thank you Teresa Nichta at MTBC for all your support in preparing for and producing the podcast and video.You can email us at mammalwatching@gmail.comHere is the YouTube trailer.For more information visit www.mammalwatching.com/podcastDr Charles Foley is a mammalwatcher and biologist who, together with his wife Lara, spent 30 years studying elephants in Tanzania. They now run the Tanzania Conservation Research Program at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Jon Hall set up mammalwatching.com in 2005. Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. He has looked for mammals in over 100 countries.
Dr. Anders interviews Dr. Iram Fatima, Chief Operating Officer of CareCloud Inc. (NASDAQ: MTBC, formerly known as MTBC). She shares her medical background and story working her way through various roles in medicine to an unlikely transition to the health IT space. They discuss the upcoming implications of the Cures Act and interoperability, the emergence and importance of telehealth in today's changing landscape as well as the necessity for us all to put the patient first, and think like a patient when designing health IT systems. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/
Hadi Chaudhry & Stephen Snyder are respectively the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer at CareCloud. The company offers a suite of technology-enabled solutions helping clients increase financial and operational performance, streamlining clinical workflows, and improving the patient experience. More than 40,000 providers count on CareCloud to help them improve patient care while reducing administrative burdens and operating costs. CareCloud is listed on the Nasdaq - their stock symbol is MTBC. Learn more.
Hadi Chaudhry & Stephen Snyder are respectively the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer at CareCloud. The company offers a suite of technology-enabled solutions helping clients increase financial and operational performance, streamlining clinical workflows, and improving the patient experience. More than 40,000 providers count on CareCloud to help them improve patient care while reducing administrative burdens and operating costs. CareCloud is listed on the Nasdaq - their stock symbol is MTBC. Learn more.
In this episode of the CT&MT podcast, we share clips from some of our favorite music therapy podcasts. There is so much to learn, and we love learning from colleagues. We hope the teaser clips that you hear on this episode convince you to check out each of these great podcasts! Music Therapy ChroniclesListen on iTunes Check out their website Clinical BOPulations Listen on iTunes Check out the website Able Voice Listen on iTunes Check out their website Creative Therapy Umbrella Listen on iTunes Check out their website FRIENDS FUN! Leave a message for Mark and Jill on Speak Pipe. Answer the Friends Fun trivia question and we will send you a gift! RECORD A MESSAGE ON SPEAKPIPE
In our ongoing series of interviews with EHR vendors about how they're approaching telehealth, we dive in to the telehealth product, features, and functions. Plus, we talk with them about how they look at third party telehealth vendors. In this interview we sit down with Juan Molina, Division President at CareCloud, an operating division of MTBC. Learn more about CareCloud: https://www.carecloud.com/ Find the full EHR Telehealth Series: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/tag/ehr-telehealth-interviews/
Join Nicole and Dr. Merlin Tuttle and Theresa of the Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation as they discuss much-maligned bats.WHAT YOU’LL LEARNOvercoming your fear.Did bats really cause COVID-19?How & Why to attract bats.How intelligent are bats?Effects on crop pollination and pest control.How to select and locate your own bat house.OUR GUESTMerlin Tuttle, renowned bat expert, educator, and wildlife photographer, has studied and photographed bats worldwide for more than 60 years. He has been a leader in international bat conservation and his organization, Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, is the most recent contribution by Merlin Tuttle to the world of bats. With over 60 years of in-depth knowledge and experience, Merlin Tuttle founded MTBC to teach the world understanding and appreciation of the vital contributions bats make to human beings and the world we live in. Merlin is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. His famous photos and case histories are used worldwide to document the importance of making conservation relevant to people, using the power of photography, and the urgent need to end careless disease speculation. He will also stress the need for better research documentation of bat values, and emphasize the key role of entertaining communication.RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONEDMTBC WebsiteMTBC FacebookMTBC TwitterMTBC YouTubeMTBC InstagramLearn the facts about bats and rabiesCOVID-19 Impact on batsBecome a Member to get newsletters and more, join MTBCSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/heritageacres)
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.22.349720v1?rss=1 Authors: Cornejo-Granados, F., Kohl, T. A., Sotomayor, F. V., Andres, S., Hernandez-Pando, R., Hurtado-Ramirez, J. M., Utpatel, C., Niemann, S., Maurer, F. P., Ochoa-Leyva, A. Abstract: Mycobacterium abscessus (MAB) is a widely disseminated pathogenic non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM). Like with M. tuberculosis complex (MTBC), excreted / secreted (ES) proteins play an essential role for its virulence and survival inside the host. ES proteins contain highly immunogenic proteins, which are of interest for novel diagnostic assays and vaccines. Here, we used a robust bioinformatics pipeline to predict the secretome of the M. abscessus ATCC 19977 reference strain and fifteen clinical isolates belonging to all three MAB subspecies, M. abscessus subsp. abscessus, M. abscessus subsp. bolletii, and M. abscessus subsp. massiliense. We found that ~18% of the proteins encoded in the MAB genomes were predicted as secreted and that the three MAB subspecies shared > 85 % of the predicted secretomes. MAB isolates with a rough (R) colony morphotype showed larger predicted secretomes than isolates with a smooth (S) morphotype. Additionally, proteins exclusive to the secretomes of MAB R variants had higher antigenic densities than those exclusive to S variants, independently of the subspecies. For all investigated isolates, ES proteins had a significantly higher antigenic density than non-ES proteins. We identified 337 MAB ES proteins with homologues in previously investigated M. tuberculosis secretomes. Among these, 222 have previous experimental support of secretion, and some proteins showed homology with protein drug targets reported in the DrugBank database. The predicted MAB secretomes showed a higher abundance of proteins related to quorum-sensing and Mce domains as compared to MTBC indicating the importance of these pathways for MAB pathogenicity and virulence. Comparison of the predicted secretome of M. abscessus ATCC 19977 with the list of essential genes revealed that 99 secreted proteins corresponded to essential proteins required for in vitro growth. All predicted secretomes were deposited in the Secret-AAR web-server (http://microbiomics.ibt.unam.mx/tools/aar/index.php). Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
Recorded on 06-22-20 In this episode, we talk about the role of technology in the provider setting. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in optimizing the workflows and reducing the administrative burdens of providers. And to help us explore this topic is Bill Korn, CFO of MTBC, a health information technology company that helps customers increase revenues, streamline workflows and make better business and clinical decisions, while reducing administrative burdens and operating costs. Podcast episode hosted by Cowen's Health Care Technology Analyst Charles Rhyee. For Disclosures, click here bit.ly/3cPHkNW
Hannah Bronson is a board-certified music therapist from Austin Texas. She is a former intern at MusicWorx and has provided music therapy to many different populations all over the world. More information about music therapy can be found at:https://www.musictherapy.org/Music Therapy and the Military:https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/music-therapy-heals-hearts-military-service-members/
Hannah Bronson is a board-certified music therapist from Austin Texas. She is a former intern at MusicWorx and has provided music therapy to many different populations all over the world. More information about music therapy can be found at:https://www.musictherapy.org/Music Therapy and the Military:https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/music-therapy-heals-hearts-military-service-members/
Cory and Mike discuss weightlifting at MiddleTennesseeBarbell
Cory and Mike discuss training at MiddleTennesseBarbell
Natasha Thomas is a graduate of the University of North Dakota (MS, Special Education, BM Music Therapy, BA Honors Program) & Board Certified Music Therapist, serving individuals statewide through North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind (NDVS/SB) and ND School for the Deaf, in addition to private clients she sees in the home and in settings like LISTEN Day Services and the LISTEN Drop-In Center. Natasha is also a member of the American Music Therapy Association and regularly attends their annual conferences. She enjoys educating her community on Music Therapy, supervising UND practica students, and teaching/performing Middle Eastern Dance in her spare time (when she has it!) Her twitter handle is @MusicMovesND. You can email her at Natasha.MTBC@gmail.com
Natasha Thomas is a graduate of the University of North Dakota (MS, Special Education, BM Music Therapy, BA Honors Program) & Board Certified Music Therapist, serving individuals statewide through North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind (NDVS/SB) and ND School for the Deaf, in addition to private clients she sees in the home and in settings like LISTEN Day Services and the LISTEN Drop-In Center. Natasha is also a member of the American Music Therapy Association and regularly attends their annual conferences. She enjoys educating her community on Music Therapy, supervising UND practica students, and teaching/performing Middle Eastern Dance in her spare time (when she has it!) Her twitter handle is @MusicMovesND. You can email her at Natasha.MTBC@gmail.com