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MWV Episode 27 - ASMCUE

The American Society for Microbiology Conference for UndergraduateEducators (ASMCUE) is an interactive four-day conference on scientificupdates and effective teaching strategies. Now in its 16th year,...

The Singing Toxicologist (MWV20)

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...

Detecting Pollution with Living Biosensors

Microbes are our friends; genetically engineered to glow flourescently and provide cheap and fast detection of contaminants, from oil spills to food supplies. If they keep these things out of the food supply, we'll be fine; I like technology, but I don't want my organic...

Maple Leaf Foods Slices its Prices: Amidst Listeria Hysteria

Opinion Barry Artiste Maple Leaf foods are deep discounting their foods in a public relations move to win back consumers, sort of a quasi price war, with 50 percent off meats versus competitors similar...

Listeria Hysteria "Worker says meat plant filthy": Maple Leaf Foods

Opinion Barry Artiste Certainly this new allegation will not bode well considering the pending lawsuits against Maple Leaf Foods from Victims of Listeria which has been linked to the 15 deaths of consumers and...

West Nile Virus MWV19

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...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 9 - Save the Oysters (Part 1)

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 Video Episode 7 - ASM In Zambia

This video, produced in partnership with Global Health TV, showcases the American Society for Microbiology's laboratory capacity building initiatives in Zambia. The film focuses on ASM's support to the Zambian...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 6 - Microblogology

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...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 6 - Microblogology

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...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 5 - Science Comedian Brian Malow

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...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 2 - AMNH Part I

Part 1 of a video podcast from the American Museum of Natural Historys 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...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 4 - AMNH Part III

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...

MicrobeWorld Video Episode 3 - AMNH Part II

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...

Return to Zambia - HIV & Tuberculosis Detection and Prevention in Sub-Saharan...

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...

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