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MWV Episode 17 – Return to Zambia

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:31:46 -0400

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 affected by HIV and tuberculosis, as well as a number of other infectious diseases. In March of 2008, ASM President Cliff Houston, Ph.D., traveled to Zambia and South Africa to gauge and assess the Society’s efforts to transfer knowledge and state of the art diagnostic technology training support in laboratories, schools and universities, and to assist in meeting the goals for care and treatment of people living with TB and HIV in these resource-limited countries. Tags: Cliff Houston, American Society for Microbiology, Microbes, Microbiology, HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, TB, disease, health, science, Zambia, South Africa, MicrobeWorld, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Prevention, laboratory, labs, infectious, Bereneice Madison, Adriano Duse, Mathias Tembo, Lewamika, Zambian Ministry of Health, Education, Janet Berner, Ebenezer, Trust, School, Jack Kampole, Todd Peterson, Lily Schuermann, Alexis Greenan, Incidental Fusion, ASM, International, Board, Committee

MWV Episode 16 – Canary in a Coal Mine

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:00:22 -0400

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 University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia,, and Kiho Kim, Ph.D., director of the environmental studies program at American University, explain the important relationship between microbes and corals, and how this delicate symbiosis that sustains life on and around reefs is facing numerous threats from human interactions to global climate change. In addition, Tundi Agardy, Ph.D., founder and executive director of Sound Seas, discusses the need for public policy and community-based conservation efforts that may help stave off the degradation of these vital ocean ecosystems. According to a 2004 report issued by the World Wildlife Fund, 24% of the world's reefs are under imminent risk of collapse through human pressures; and a further 26% are under a longer term threat of collapse. If nothing is done to protect these resources, many scientists estimate that reefs around the West Indies in the Caribbean will be gone by 2020, while the Great Barrier Reef may only last for another three decades. Please visit the following sites for more information about coral reefs: • www.climateshifts.org • www.reefrelief.org • www.coralreef.noaa.gov Please feel free to embed or distribute this video.

MWV Episode 15 – Modern Transportation and Infectious Disease

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:54:36 -0400

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 Lucey from Georgetown University discuss the role of transportation in the spread of disease and examine the effectiveness of various measures to curb transmission. Stephen Eubank, Ph.D., is a project director at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute of Virginia Tech. His research focuses on modeling and simulating the spread of disease and regional transportation, and the analysis of complex systems. Daniel Lucey, M.D., M.P.H., is an adjunct professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University, where he is co-director of the master of science program in biohazardous threat agents and emerging infectious diseases. In recent years, his teaching focus has been on SARS, avian flu, and the threat of pandemic human influenza. Resources Learn more about infectious diseases at http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhib_infectious/index.jsp Transportation Research Board of the National Academies http://www.trb.org/default.asp Pandemic Flu and Travel http://www.pandemicflu.gov/travel/index.html

MWV Episode 14 – HIV/AIDS Education

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:23:00 -0500

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 instilling innovative prevention strategies. Filmed at a forum for educators on February, 11, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C. and at San Diego State University, this episode features the following experts: Roland Wolkowicz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, whose research focus is on the use of random peptide libraries and other chemical genetics approaches for the study of viral pathogenesis and the search of antiviral factors in HIV1 and HCV. Shannon Lee Hader, M.D., MPH, Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration for Washington, D.C., an epidemiologist and public health physician who has worked with HIV-infected children and adults in Brazil, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Anila Asghar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University, whose research focuses on curriculum development and evolution. Educational resources mentioned within the video can be found online at: Koshland Science Museum http://koshlandscience.org/teachers/webquest.jsp NIH Curriculum Guide http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Diseases/default.htm Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/ Please feel free to embed or distribute this video.

MWV Episode 13 - Microbe Lab

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:45:26 -0500

MicrobeWorld visits the Marian Koshland Science Museum for “Microbe Lab,” a free day of activities for the general public. In this episode we interview Erika Shugart, deputy director of the Koshland Museum, about “Microbe Lab” and the Crack Koshie’s Curious Case: A Disease Detective Mission activity. Next, we talk with Nagla Fetouh, Education Program Manager for the Koshland Museum, who led a disease exchange activity that teaches people about ways to control the spread of infectious disease by participating in a simulation that shows just how fast illness can spread. Finally, Eric Flem, Communications Manager for Nikon Instruments, Inc., led us through a demonstration of Nikon’s Coolscope. A state of the art microscope used by clinicians and educators that has the ability to broadcast images live on the internet.

MWV Episode 12 -Petri Dish Circus

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:08:37 -0500

MicrobeWorld goes to the theatre to see the history of microbiology in nine scenes of gags, burlesque, drollery and song. Produced by Active Cultures, the vernacular theatre of Maryland, Petri Dish Circus is a play loosely based off of the classic non fiction novel Microbe Hunters by Paul Henry De Kruif. Muech like the original book first published in 1926 that describes 12 historical milestones in science, Active Cultures reenacts “the daring-do of Louis Pasteur in his Parisian lab, the Scotch fortitude of Ronald Ross as he travels through disease-stricken Africa, and the melancholy saga of Walter Reed as he battles Yellow Jack in Cuba” — all with a healthy dose of humor. In this episode we interview Mary Resing, artistic director for Active Cultures, who talks about Microbe Hunters as inspiration for theatre and her whimsical, and slightly pointed, approach to portraying the women featured in De Kruif’s work. Excerpts from the actual performance are also featured.

MWV Episode 11 -The Maloy Lab

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:50:18 -0500

MicrobeWorld visits The Maloy Lab at San Diego State University to talk with Professor Stanley Maloy and three grad students, Dave Matthews, Gerardo Perez and Veronica Casas, about their research. The Maloy Lab focuses on the genetics and physiology of Salmonella and bacteriophage that infect Salmonella. Maloy and his students use a combination of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and genomic approaches to answer questions about the uptake of DNA from bacteriophage, transfer of genes between bacteria and phage, and the evolution of pathogenesis.

MWV Episode 10 - Save the Oysters Part II

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:01:40 -0400

Since the introduction of MSX and Dermo in the 1950’s, two infectious diseases that played a large role in the decline the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population, several oyster hatcheries along the Eastern seaboard are working with scientists across many fields to develop innovative restoration programs. One idea is to introduce a non-native oyster from China called Crassostrea ariakensis.

In this video podcast, MicrobeWorld talks about current research underway with C. ariakensis, the potential risk of new diseases that could affect the Bay’s ecology and/or human health, the attitudes of Maryland’s watermen, and the role of local, state and federal policy.

Special thanks goes out to the DC Science Writers Association, the Marian Koshland Science Museum and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory for helping with the logistics and planning of the shoot.

MWV Episode 9 - Save the Oysters

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:06:25 -0400

Do you like oysters? Then join MicrobeWorld for a tour of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory just outside of Cambridge, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. In this video, MicrobeWorld looks at the impact of disease on the Bay’s oyster population and how scientists are using cultured algae to restore them. MicrobeWorld interviews Jamie King, Ph.D., NOAA Fisheries, Chesapeake Bay Office, David Nemazie, Marine Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Stephanie Alexander, senior faculty research assistant and hatchery manager for the Horn Point Laboratory. Special thanks goes out to the DC Science Writers Association and the Marian Koshland Science Museum for helping with the logistics.

MicrobeWorld Interviews Cast and Producers for Television’s ReGenesis

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:36:21 -0400

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) 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

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:13:21 -0400

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

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:13:21 -0400

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

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:44:53 -0400

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.

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MWV Episode 4 – Save the Microbes Save the World – Part 3

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:27:17 -0400

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

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MWV Episode 3 – Save the Microbes Save the World – Part 2

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:11:18 -0400

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 for the AMNH and moderated by Julie Burstein, Public Radio International and WNYC Radio’s Studio 360.

Panelists include:

James Staley, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

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MWV Episode 2 – Save the Microbes Save the World – Part 1

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:55:06 -0400

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 for the AMNH and moderated by Julie Burstein, Public Radio International and WNYC Radio’s Studio 360.

Panelists include:

James Staley, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

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MWV Episode 1 - Koshland Museum

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:49:44 -0400

A video podcast on the Koshland Science Museum's interactive exhibit on Infectious Disease featuring interviews with Erica Shugart, Ph.D., deputy director and exhibit curator, Dr. Eliott Kieff, Harvard University, and Dr. David Relman, Stanford University. The Koshland Science Museum is located on 6th and E Sts., NW, D.C. and it is well worth the visit.

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Yellowstone Revealed, part two

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:49:44 -0400

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 podcast of Yellowstone Revealed is presented by the American Society for Microbiology (www.asm.org) and the World Foundation for Environment and Development (www.wfed.org).

Yellowstone Revealed, part one

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:17:08 -0400

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 Society for Microbiology (www.asm.org) and the World Foundation for Environment and Development (www.wfed.org).

Intimate Strangers

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:14:32 -0400

A look at what's coming up in future episodes of Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth

A New Age

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:58:23 -0400

Explore the future of microbes and how they can improve the quality of life on Earth through genetic engineering, bioremediation and electronics.

Resistance Fighters

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:36:03 -0500

As antibiotics lose their ability to control infectious diseases, scientists are busy looking for new, more effective drugs from the soil of a park in Vancouver to the radioactive environment of Chernobyl.

Life in a Contaminated World

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:15:16 -0500

In underdeveloped countries, poor conditions increase the risk of disease and scarce medical resources make harder to treat disease properly. Witness how a strain of Hanta virus in Argentina evolves to pass between humans without an intermediate host.

A 'Friendly Enemy'

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:58:57 -0500

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.

Dangerous Friends and Friendly Enemies

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:07:05 -0500

Dr. Stuart Levy and Dr. Fred Koster track a mystery killer from a Navajo community in New Mexico with help from Dr. C.J. Peters with the Centers for Disease Control.

Oceans of Microbes

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:35:44 -0500

Dr. Steven Giovannoni finds microbes in the most unusual places in the ocean and attempts to grow a mystery microbe in the lab.

The View From the Forest

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:54:12 -0500

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.

Who Are We?

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:15:48 -0500

Dr. Karen Nelson and Dr. Craig Venter map the genome of Thermatoga, the microbes Dr. Karl Stetter discovered in Episode 1 of this podcast, and find convincing evidence that Thermatoga’s origins are very close to the beginning of life on Earth.

Solving the Puzzle

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:23:04 -0500

A new understanding of life on Earth has forced us to redraw the tree of life. Dr. Carl Woese and Norman Pace describe the process and challenges of categorizing microbial life.

The Quest

ccondayan@asmusa.org (American Society for Microbiology) — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:37:38 -0500

Join Dr. Karl Stetter on a mission to find the closest living relative of the first life on Earth as he discovers a strain of bacteria he names "Thermatoga."