Editors in Conversation
Hosted by Alex McAdam and Marvin Whiteley · American Society for Microbiology
4.8from 39 ratings
- 124
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 39
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About Editors in Conversation
Editors in Conversation is the official podcast of the American Society for Microbiology Journals. Editors in Conversation features discussions between ASM Journals Editors, researchers and clinicians working on the most cutting edge issues in the microbial sciences. Topics include laboratory diagnosis and clinical treatment of infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology of infections, multidrug-resistant organisms, pharmacology of antimicrobial agents, susceptibility testing, and more. The podcast is directed to microbiologists, infectious diseases clinicians, pharmacists and basic, clinical and translational researchers interested in the microbial sciences. A particular emphasis is on basic, epidemiological and pharmacological aspects of infectious diseases, including antimicrobial resistance and therapeutics.
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 124 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ebola: Is Your Laboratory Prepared To Handle a Potential Case?
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Group B Strep After Antibiotics: Survival, Persistence, and Evolution
28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Diagnostic Access and Equity
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Ebola: Is Your Laboratory Prepared To Handle a Potential Case?
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I think really the underappreciated challenge here is the work that goes into, you know, getting to the point of where the laboratory can safely perform a test really at a moment's notice. So, you know, if we were building a lab from scratch today, you know, lab directors would work with physician and nurse counterparts to develop a test menu to really reflect the needs of the patient population. You know, the lab would then require the necessary instrumentation along with reagents and consumables would identify, you know, the tests that would be needed to be validated on the instruments and make sure that they perform as expected. […]
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- Daniel Rhoads
- Zoe Weiss
- Beverley Orr
- Nicholas Heger
- Macy Pell
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- YouTube views
- 3,023,148
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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Who hosts Editors in Conversation?
Alex McAdam and Marvin Whiteley host the show. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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