Podcast: An Embarrassment of Genomes

Many blog and Twitter readers may be acquainted with Jonathan Eisen, a biologist at UC Davis. In my latest Meet the Scientist podcast, I spend an hour chatting with Eisen about what you can learn by looking at the genomes of particularly weird microbes--from radiation-resistant critters to bugs that live in the guts of insects or on the bellies of deep-sea worms. Check it out.