Today, Sarah Bordenstein, Associate Research Professor of Biology & Entomology at Penn State University and Director of Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project joins the  #QualityQuorum to tell us about the most successful pandemic on the planet, the fascinating endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia, and how she has used this fascinating system to teach young people about molecular biology, bioinformatics, and evolution. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/mm/mm-037/ Become a patron of Matters Microbial at https://microbe.tv/contribute ——————————— CONNECT ——————————— 🎯 Subscribe! https://bit.ly/2HOYdNP Instagram: @profvrr and @microbe.tv Twitter: @profvrr TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@microbe.tv Facebook: http://facebook.com/thisweekinvirology Our Podcasts: https://microbe.tv/ Contribute: https://www.microbe.tv/contribute/ ——————————— MORE VIROLOGY ——————————— •My Virology Course https://virology.ws/course •Virology Blog: https://www.virology.ws/ •Virus Watch https://bit.ly/3ngvQIM •Principles of Virology textbook https://amzn.to/34onDtg ——————————— OUR SCIENCE PODCASTS ——————————— •This Week in Virology https://bit.ly/30uUhrX This Week in Parasitism https://bit.ly/3ndUNUZ •This Week in Microbiology https://bit.ly/33tOUeO •Urban Agriculture http://microbe.tv/urbanag •This Week in Evolution https://bit.ly/3ne1bf5 •Immune https://bit.ly/2HOyCVb •This Week in Neuroscience https://bit.ly/2So12Yd •Infectious Disease Puscast https://bit.ly/3K4EKF0 – Who Am I? – I’m Vincent Racaniello, Earth’s Virology Professor, and I believe that education should be free. I’m also a professor of virology at Columbia University in New York. I’ve been doing research on viruses since 1976, and teaching virology in classrooms and online since 1999. On this YouTube channel I share videos of my lectures, podcasts, and more. New videos are uploaded several times each week. I do not run ads on our work as it is disruptive to learning. We depend on your support. If you would like to support our work, go over to https://www.microbe.tv/contribute/ ——————————————————————— #microbe #viruses #coronavirus #pandemic ———————————————————————