Today my former undergraduate student Lauren Augusta, currently in a PhD program in Microbiology at the University of Indiana, joins the podcast to chat about how she chose her career path in the microbial sciences, and her future path. Host: Mark O. Martin Guest: Lauren Augusta Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify Become a patron of Matters Microbial! Links for this episode The program for creating the maze on this session’s thumbnail image is here. Here is the website for Micropia, the microbiology museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.  SO WORTH YOUR TIME.  I wish that I worked there! Here is a description of Micropia’s “tardigrade chair” which is kind of a tourist destination! Lauren Augusta, today’s guest on the podcast, did a wonderful video advertisement for my institution, the University of Puget Sound. An introduction for beginning micronauts about Agrobacterium, and why you should care about this natural genetic engineer, as well as a more advanced review.  Plus another fine review from Dr. Clay Fuqua and coworkers.   Lovely overviews of the global signaling molecule of bacteria that Lauren studies, cyclic-di-GMP, can be found here, here, and here.   The Microbiology Department website at the University of Indiana where Lauren is working on her Ph.D. The faculty webpage of Lauren’s Ph.D. supervisor, Dr. Clay Fuqua. Intro music is by Reber Clark Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com