Hey everyone and welcome to talk nerdy.

Today is Monday, November 4th, 2019 and I'm the

host of the show Kara Santa Maria. Remember TalkNurdy is and will always be 100%

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All right guys, this week is a really interesting topic. It's something that's near and

dear to my heart. I'm going to be chatting with Dr Miriam. near and

she's near and dear to my heart. Now, she's a professor at UC Merced

and she is in the molecular cell biology group looking at the evolution of bacteria

specifically with regard to antibiotic resistance. I learned an awful lot from her. I know you will too, so without any

further ado, here she is Dr. Miriam Barlow. Well Miriam,

thank you so much for joining me today.

Thanks for having me on your show, Kara.

Absolutely.

I'm so excited to talk to you about, I think,

for me personally, one of the most fascinating kind of topics in sort of biology

research that especially affects I think everybody on the planet when I'm doing my other show the Skeptics

guide I often will want to cover these kinds of stories because we cover

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