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And what we found is that we can find many commensal and pathogenic
bacteria
that inhabited the nasal passages and mouth.
But what was surprising to us, and also quite exciting, is we also found
bacteria
that normally inhabit upper respiratory systems.
And we also found
bacteria
that normally inhabit the gut.
What you see here are marine
bacteria
buzzing about and exploring other members of the marine food web.
An average teaspoon of clean seawater has five million
bacteria
and 50 million viruses in it.
If I were to scoop up two gallons of seawater, there would be more
bacteria
in those two gallons than there are people on this planet.
So if we were to take a drop of seawater from each of these samples and put it under the microscope, this is what the
bacteria
and viral communities would look like.
All of the red circles are the symbiotic algae that live inside the coral tissue, turning sunlight and into sugars they both can use, and all of the little blue dots are the protective
bacteria.
And those
bacteria
are sitting in a mucus layer, which is also part of the coral's protective layer.
It's incredibly exciting to me that we can finally see these
bacteria
in real life, in real time, at their micro scale, and learn how they interact with the world around them.
I work to find ways that cutting-edge technologies like this can help make the unseen seeable, to see marine
bacteria
in action and learn how they behave.
The basic idea behind microfluidics is that you can use nanofabrication techniques to recreate or mimic the conditions
bacteria
experience at their own tiny scale in the ocean.
We use high-speed video microscopy to record
bacteria
behavior.
The colored tubing is where
bacteria
and seawater flow in and out of the device.
But simply by watching and observing, we can learn that these
bacteria
are very well adapted to seeking out their victims.
These micro-channels are bringing us closer than ever before to understanding how
bacteria
navigate that big blue ocean.
So these
bacteria
are very well adapted to hunting down these corals.
So, one final image of a coral and its healthy
bacteria.
I think we're transitioning into Homo evolutis that, for better or worse, is not just a hominid that's conscious of his or her environment, it's a hominid that's beginning to directly and deliberately control the evolution of its own species, of bacteria, of plants, of animals.
I collaborate with
bacteria.
And I'm about to show you some stop-motion footage that I made recently where you'll see
bacteria
accumulating minerals from their environment over the period of an hour.
So what you're seeing here is the
bacteria
metabolizing, and as they do so they create an electrical charge.
And these metals accumulate as minerals on the surface of the
bacteria.
And this is where my collaboration with
bacteria
comes into play.
So I'd like you to image a mining industry in a way that one hasn't existed before; imagine a mining industry that doesn't mean defiling the Earth; imagine
bacteria
helping us do this by accumulating and precipitating and sedimenting minerals out of desalination brine.
Now this has been a huge problem for many years, basically since the late 1980s, when the varroa mite came and brought many different viruses,
bacteria
and fungal diseases with it.
Now, all these photos had been damaged by water, submerged in salt water, covered in bacteria, in sewage, sometimes even in oil, all of which over time is going to continue to damage them, so hand-cleaning them was a huge part of the project.
We genetically engineer
bacteria.
San Francisco is also spending 40 million dollars to rethink and redesign its water and sewage treatment, as water outfall pipes like this one can be flooded with seawater, causing backups at the plant, harming the
bacteria
that are needed to treat the waste.
This cell is looking for foreign objects, bacteria, things that it can find.
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