Today Dr. Joshua Shrout, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work of his research team on sociomicrobiology. This includes how bacteria sense a surface, move together in groups, and communicate with one another.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Joshua Shrout

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Links for this episode

• Here is a wonderful video about the late great Dr. Esther Lederberg.  Here is another article on that same subject.
• Here is an article about prodigiosin synthesis and Serratia marcescens.  
• An introduction to the concept of sociomicrobiology.
• An overview of bacterial swarming.  Here is a wonderful swarming video.
• An overview of bacterial swimming in liquid.
• An article about group/social motility in Myxococcus.
• A fine video explaining the amazing bacterial flagellar motor.
• An article about Vibrio parahaemolyticus and swarming.
• An overview of quorum sensing.
• Bacteria cultivated in the laboratory undergo mutational changes during "domestication." 
• Pigments produced by Pseudomonas, including pyoverdin and pyocyanin.
• An article from Dr. Shrout's laboratory group describing interactions between Pseudomonas and Enterococcus described in this episode.
• The Type IV pili-based motility system.
• An article from Dr. Shrout's laboratory describing how Pseudomonas can "walk" on one pole during swarming.
• Here is a video from Dr. Shrout's laboratory showing Pseudomonas "walking" on their poles.
• An overview video of the Shrout laboratory's research interests.
• Dr. Shrout's faculty website.
• Dr. Shrout's truly beautiful research website. There are wonderful microbial videos there.  Very much worth your time.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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