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Bugs in Films -

An interview with Valerie Stout, Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.

Podcast content summary and time log for Volume 13 of Ask-a-Biologist.


Keywords and topics that are found in this program: microbes, e. coli, viruses, biofilms, antibiotics.


Topic Time
Bacteria, not all are bad. 00:45
How much bacteria is in the body? 01:32
Where do we find bacteria? 01:48
What other things are microbes besides bacteria? Viruses etc.. 02:52
Microbes comes from the Greek word "Mikros" meaning small. How much of the Earth's biomass is made up of microbes? 03:22
How many of the microbe species are there? 04:02
Biofilms 04:28
What do biofilms do? 05:42
Biofiilms and antibiotics. 06:34
Biofilms, your teeth and brushing your teeth. 07:45
E. coli - Esherisha coli 09:29
Viruses and what's is living and what's not living? 12:09
When did you first know that you wanted to be a biologist or scientist? 14:20
What would you be and do if you were not a biologist? 15:10
What advice do you have for young scientists? 16:09

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