Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains?

Welcome to ArchaeaCast! In our sixth episode, our hosts Priyanka Chatterjee and Dr. Connor Hines discuss the archaea that are very close to home–the ones that can live in and on us! In the second part of the episode, Priyanka interviews Dr. Christine Moissl-Eichinger, from the Medical University of Graz in Austria.

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Sources

Triantafyllou K, Chang C, Pimentel M. 2014. Methanogens, Methane and Gastrointestinal Motility. J Neurogastroenterol Motil 20:31–40.

Probst AJ, Auerbach AK, Moissl-Eichinger C. 2013. Archaea on Human Skin. PLOS ONE 8:e65388.

Matarazzo F, Ribeiro AC, Faver ...