248: Borgs Are Real

Mark Martin returns to TWiM to discuss ways to increase diversity in our field, and the discovery of Borgs, giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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Links for this episode:

• Unacknowledged privilege (Mol Biol Cell)
• Black Microbiologists Association
• Beginner’s Guide to Minority Professor Hires
• (ASM)Academic Career Readiness Assessment (UCSF)
• Annual Biomed Res Conference for Minority Students
• Lessons from Plants by Beronda Montgomery
• Giant extrachromosomal BORGS (bioRxiv)

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