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In the Com­pany of A Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy Blog­ger and Mush­room Hunter

by Chris Con­dayan

Hear Elio speak on the "Meet the Sci­en­tist" pod­cast. He is be­ing in­ter­viewed about the joys and uses of microbio­logy blogs and mush­room hunt­ing by (an­other Merry) Merry Buck­ley. The episode is about 16 min­utes long.

To lis­ten now, click the play but­ton un­der the im­age on the left. If you would like to down­load the file and put it on your com­puter or MP3 Player click here. You can sub­scribe for free to Dr. Merry Buckley's Meet the Sci­en­tist pod­cast via iTunes, through the RSS feed, or by email alert.

 

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Mark O. Martin
17 years ago

Elio, it is great to hear your voice again.
One thing that has al­ways im­pressed me has been your sheer breadth of in­ter­ests, and your abil­ity to "see" things *I* cer­tainly haven't thought about (such as the vis­cos­ity of the nu­cleoid, ver­sus mak­ing pro­mot­ers avail­able for tran­scrip­tional machinery—that vis­cid re­gion must be churn­ing like a hor­rific nanoscale ty­phoon!).
Please con­sider telling us how you keep up—what is the Elio Reg­i­men for Stay­ing Mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cally Cur­rent?
And let me give you the high­est praise I know: I don't like mush­rooms, and I find my­self think­ing about cook­ing with them, as you elo­quently sing their my­co­log­i­cal praises.

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Elio
17 years ago

Mark,
You praise me over­much. I wish I could live up to your ap­pro­ba­tion. But let's not ar­gue — learn­ing that you have be­come a my­cophag­ist is a fine re­ward.
Elio

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Phillip
16 years ago

I re­ally en­joyed that. Granted, I don't pre­tend that I un­der­stood more than half of all the mush­room speak, but still it was a good lis­ten. Very ed­u­ca­tional.

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