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by American Society for MicrobiologyA video podcast by the American Society for Microbiology that highlights the latest in microbiology, life science and biotechnology news. ASM is composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals with the mission to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well-being worldwide. For information about ASM and MicrobeWorld, visit us online at www.microbeworld.org.
Recent podcasts
MicrobeWorld Interviews Cast and Producers for Television’s ReGenesis
30/08/2007
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 Sandstr��m (Peter Outerbridge) and supported by a cast of forensic specialists and CIA operatives, investigates new strains of disease, genetically modified bacteria, and potential bioterror threats or agents. In essence, the show is about microbial forensics and the lives of the people who work in and around the lab. ReGenesis is also one of the first dramas to feature full media convergence and was recently awarded with the 2007 International Emmy in the Interactive Program category and the 2006 Gemini Award for Best Cross Platform Project. Visitors to the website can tour the NorBAC laboratory, partake in the laboratory’s problem solving, and get insight into each episode’s health and science issues by getting the “Facts behind the Fiction” and “Science and Society” fact sheets, where episodic drama is analyzed by leading scientists compliments of the Ontario Genomics Institute. The series will launch in the US this September and can be seen on television stations affiliated with ABC, Belo, CBS, Granite, Fox, Hearst, LIN TV, and the Tribune and Young group. ReGenesis is set to become the first complete, original HDTV series offered for weekend syndication. To watch ReGenesis in your area, please check your local listings. For more information about ReGenesis visit the show online at www.regenesistv.com
MWV Episode 7 - ASM in Zambia
03/07/2007
This video, produced by Global Health TV, showcases ASM’s laboratory capacity building initiatives in Zambia. The film focuses on ASM’s support to the Zambian Ministry of Health and US government agencies in the strengthening of clinical microbiology services with the objective of integration of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS laboratory infrastructure. Consultants representing ASM have traveled to Zambia to train healthcare workers and researchers on diagnostics for TB, blood culture, and basic bacteriology. For more information about ASM’s international activities, please contact international@asmusa.org.
MWV Episode 6 - Microblogology
03/07/2007
Six science bloggers talk about why they blog, the role of blogging in science, feedback they've received and the greatest microbiological discovery in the past decade. Bloggers featured include: John Logsdon Sex, Genes & Evolution http://www.johnlogsdon.blogspot.com. Jonathan Badger T. Taxus http://ttaxus.blogspot.com Yersinia http://www.myspace.com/lenore138 Moselio Schaechter Small Things Considered http://schechter.asmblog.org Tara Smith Aetiology http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology Larry Moran Sandwalk http://sandwalk.blogspot.com Also featuring: Wojtek Zawada as the Skater The Song "Bacteria" is by Jonathan Coulton, www.jonathancoulton.com, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com. Filmed and produced by Chris Condayan and Garth Hogan for the American Society for Microbiology. For more video and audio podcasts visit www.MicrobeWorld.org.
MWV Episode 5-Brian Malow at Koshland
12/06/2007
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 science humor magazine, and was producer and host of a pioneering internet talk show, But Seriously. His routine on Neil Armstrong was heard aboard the space shuttle. Brian lives in San Francisco. For a taste of his humor, visit his website, www.butseriously.com. Visit MicrobeWorld online at www.microbeworld.org
MWV Episode 4 – Save the Microbes Save the World – Part 3
29/05/2007
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 for the AMNH and moderated by Julie Burstein, Public Radio International and WNYC Radio’s Studio 360. Panelists include: Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. Susan Perkins, Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, AMNH James Staley, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington Visit MicrobeWorld online at www.microbeworld.org
