Jason Tetro

Jason Tetro is the host of the Super Awesome Science Show, a podcast that brings a different kind of production to science. He is also a visiting scientist at the University of Guelph. He has researched health-related microbiology and immunology for over 25 years. He has worked in various fields including bloodborne, food and water pathogens; environmental microbiology; disinfection and antisepsis; and emerging pathogens such as Zika virus. In the public, he is better known as The Germ Guy™.  He regularly writes for The Huffington Post Canada and regularly appears on CBC Radio and SirusXM. He has written two books, The Germ Code, which was shortlisted as Science Book of The Year (2014) and The Germ Files, which spent several weeks on the national bestseller list. He has also co-edited, The Human Microbiome Handbook, which provides an academic perspective on the impact of microbes in human health.