Today, Dr. Rachel Dutton, Science Resident at the Astera Institute in Berkeley, California, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the complex (and tasty) microbial communities responsible for cheese as a model system for microbial interactions, as well as her interesting path through science.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Rachel Dutton
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Links for this episode
- An introduction to the idea of sociomicrobiology.
- A more technical review of sociomicrobiology.
- Another more recent technical review of sociomicrobiology.
- A popular introduction to the ideas behind microbiology and cheesemaking.
- An article about cheese microbes.
- An article about viewing fermented foods like cheese as a way to study microbial ecosystems.
- Evidence for horizontal gene transfer within cheese microbial communities.
- A wonderful video about cheese microbiology.
- A video by Dr. Dutton about her work in cheese microbiology.
- A more recent (2023) video from Dr. Dutton about her cheese community research.
- Dr. Dutton’s website on cheese microbiology.
- Dr. Ben Wolfe’s website on cheese microbiology.
- A podcast with Dr. Dutton from ASM.
- A popular article about Dr. Dutton’s work with cheese microbiology.
- Dr. Dutton’s Wikipedia page!
- An overview of Arcadia Science.
- An overview of the Astera Institute.
- Dr. Dutton’s site at Astera.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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