Matters Microbial #73: Seeing the Microbiome January 8, 2025
Today, Dr. Travis Wiles, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work he and his research group have done to visualize the changing dynamics of the gut microbiome—including bacteriophages residing there.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Travis Wiles
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Links for this episode
- Dr Anne Estes’ academic website is found here, along with her blog, and her social media link on Bluesky. So many interesting ideas!
- Transgenic zebrafish as pets are called GLOfish.
- Use of zebrafish as a model system for developmental biology.
- An article exploring the effects of the microbiome on gnotobiotic (“germ free”) zebrafish.
- An essay on both lytic and lysogenic bacteriophages.
- An essay describing how bacteriophage interact with the gut microbiota. One of my former undergraduate research students, Dr. Danielle Campbell, works in this area!
- An article suggesting that bacteriophage do in fact interact with eukaryotic cells.
- The concept of phage conversion: how some bacteriophages carry bacterial genes, including toxin genes.
- An article about bacteriophages and bacterial evolution.
- An article about the study of the zebrafish gut microbiome.
- An article about research with zebrafish and Mycobacterium.
- The article discussed in this episode by Dr. Wiles’ group: “Phollow: Visualizing Gut Bacteriophage Transmission within Microbial Communities and Living Animals .”
- Dr. Wiles’ academic website.
- Dr. Wiles’ very colorful and interesting laboratory group website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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