Spooky season is here! While we associate Halloween with ghost stories, haunted houses, zombies, and trick-or-treating, the microbial world contains many eerie, microscopic (and macroscopic) tales. Th...
When you’re scouring the pumpkin patch this autumn for the perfect pumpkin for your carving creations, you likely won’t come across Styrian pumpkins. These pumpkins are known as “naked-seeded pumpkins...
The best season is upon us. The time of vibrant foliage, pumpkins, apples… and all the microbes that come with that. When it comes to the intersection of food and microbiology, we typically thin...
Updated on December 8, 2025. Looking to add some microbiology into your reading routine? This list of microbiology books reflects the many ways that microbes touch our lives – from being the org...
What’s my microbe moment – the moment I realized that microbes were going to change my life? A few months ago, the Microbigals blog reached out to me about a podcast episode they were planning, ...