microbe talk: may 2014

posted on may 14, 2014   by benjamin thompson

it’s a special bumper-edition of the podcast this month, full of interviews i recorded at the society’s annual conference that was held a few weeks ago in liverpool.

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on the podcast we’ve got: professor w. ian lipkin, discussing pandemics and hollywood movies; dr laura clarke, talking about bacteria that do strange things to nematodes; professor marvin whiteley, explaining how infections can be polymicrobial; dr roger sanders, talking about the chances of developing an hiv vaccine; and dr rita colwell, explaining the challenges facing early-career women scientists.

show notes:

  • our conference roundup can be found here.
  • we’ve collected a selection from the hundreds of tweets from our conference here.

don’t forget, you can subscribe to microbe talk on itunes.