Sunday, May 19, 2013

Wolfe: microbes

Wolfe: microbes

1.Find killers

2. Find cure:

  • microbiota
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Listeria coated with radioactive material to cure cancer

3. Shedding light on us
  • Importance of microbes to us: Lactobacillus covering the baby---to help use milk
  • Even viruses endogeneuos recruited to fxn
  • Revealing the limits of life
  • Viruses infecting viruses
  • Deep seq is important
  • 10-20% biological dark matters--unidentified microbes in Human genome and microbiome
  • History is a process
  • New life form
  • Where should we explore?
  • Microbiologists WILL find things to shed light on us, on life

Fascinating talk!!!


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