261: Overwhelming Microbial Greatness

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark returns to TWiM to join in a discussion of soil microbiota as game-changers in restoration of degraded lands, and discovery of a centimeter-long bacterium, the biggest yet discovered.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guest:</span> <a href= "https://www.pugetsound.edu/faculty-pages/momartin"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mark O. Martin</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Game-changing</span> <a href= "https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abe0725"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> soil microbiota</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Science)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://soilrocks.org/about-the-book/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A World Without Soil</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">by Jo Handlesman</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A World Without Soil</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKnYn9RYruw"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">video</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(YouTube)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.16.480423v1.full.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Centimeter-long</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">bacteria (bioRxiv)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1KkQrFEl2I"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How large</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">can a bacteria get? (YouTube)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mIqPNFWA7k"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Giant</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">bacteria (YouTube)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2012/02/the-three-faces-of-thiomargarita.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Three face