Mark O. Martin

Agreed!

I think we need to push very hard to get @symbionticism.bsky.social on “Hot Ones” to discuss microbiome science while eating progressively hotter wings. @firstwefeast.bsky.social

Here is a blast from the past. Yours truly at UCLA as a sophomore. My parents were unconvinced I would make it! I cannot blame them. I was a mess.

This is a MudWatt—-a microbial fuel cell. Bacteria colonizing the electrodes generate current, which in turn makes the LED flash! #microbiology #MicrobialElectricity @MicrobeTV @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology

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I’m so very sad that there will be no West Coast Bacterial Physiology meeting in Asilomar this year. I have gone for decades and so appreciated the kindness, collegiality, and above all the microbial wonders presented. @ASMicrobiology

www.fullerton.edu/wcbp/

The student paper at my university this morning. Mine is not the only institution at which this is happening. I’m sad for all the great students. Maybe retirement was a good idea after all.

@jennifer.j.quinn makes each day I have better. She truly is my sunshine.

Lovely day with #BabyCarl the Kenyan Sand Boa. He ate like a champ. These photos were taken the day before the feeding. Carlito is very sweet.

Friday night #NanoDate with @jennifer.j.quinn at Devils Reef. 5PM seems early, but it is now tradition. @devils_reef

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During my #MattersMicrobial podcast, I chatted with Dr. Petra Levin: an advocate of microbiologists doing microscopy! But my eyes are horrible. Petra described a self focusing microscope that puts the images on a screen. THAT is the kind of thing I need, but I am pretty sure I could never afford.

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Sad and worried and feeling low. I’m working on my CBT.

My late father did his best to teach me what deep philosophical rules beyond partisan politics. He was so very wise, and I didn't see that when I was young. I miss chatting with him. It's been almost ten years, yet his many lessons are still fresh. "Fortitudini et honori," Dad. Rest easy.

When I was a kiddo, I was delighted and frightened by scary movies. Humor helped. When I was in middle school, three of my friend and I would meet to watch horror movies on television hosted by "Sinister Seymour," who made hilarious fun of them.

Happy childhood memory.

When my wife Dr. Jennifer Quinn decided to leave teaching at UW-Tacoma, look what faculty and students made for her! THAT is what making a difference looks like. @jennifer.j.quinn

Dr. Jeff Gralnick explains the inner workings of microbial fuel cells like the MudWatt.

Excerpt from Matters Microbial 111: Shocking Tales of Metal-Loving Microbes

@markowenmartin.bsky.social

New episode of #MattersMicrobial! The superlative Dr. Jeff Gralnick chats with the #QualityQuorum about bacteria that breathe metal! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbe.tv

youtu.be/rh-TK2Bvxj8?...

Fridays are busy these days. First, a 7AM PT podcast session with the great Dr. Petra Levin, to discuss bacterial stress, size, and antibiotic resistance for Episode 112 releasted next week. Such fun to chat with a TWiMmer!

What we did this week in my #Bio350 #Microbiology course at @univpugetsound. Agar “pitters,” pigmented bacteria, and a search for antibiotic producing microbes! @asmicrobiology @MicrobeTV #MicronautsRule #MicrobialCentrism

Yes! Microbial ambassadors !

Real perspective. Gratitude and humility are important.

I have been quite sad at looming retirement, & I wanted to show you why. I made a joke the other day in microbiology lecture, telling #Bio350 #Micronauts at the University of Puget Sound to “keep me in the loop” as they studied. The inoculating loop! A #Micronaut just sent this to me! @microbe.tv

Azula of the #FireSkinkNation loves pupae. Such an adorable skinkadoo!!

Ah, the hardest truth.

Sad but true. Cherish the people who do value you, treat you with respect, and stand by you.

Another week clear.

My Dairy Cow isopods are reproducing like crazy. I was warned.

Time to chat about Angelina Hesse, cooking, agar, Petri dishes, marine microbiology, and agarases. @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology @MicrobeTV #Micronauts #Bio350 #MicrobialCentricity

A Global Deep Terrestrial Biosphere Core Microbiome academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Carbon metabolism shapes FtsZ levels and cell division in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 - Communications Biology This study provides evidence on how carbon metabolism regulates cell division among cyanobacteria. Manipulation of the TCA pathway directly impacts the FtsZ-dependent cell division by regulating its expression via the transcriptional factor NtcA.

Carbon metabolism shapes FtsZ levels and cell division in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs

One of my #Bio350 #Micronauts at @univpugetsound found some agar degrading microbes—-pitters—-from a seawater sample. #MarineMicrobiologicalSafari #MicrobialCentrism @asmicrobiology @MicrobeTV