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And by the way, the reason the kittens here are orange and these are green is because that's a bioluminescent gene from coral, while this is from jellyfish.
This is a golden coral, a bush.
You take a glow gene out of a coral or a jellyfish and you stick it in a zebrafish, and, puff, they glow.
He dreams of coral reefs and plankton.
There is an area that is the oceans, coral reefs.
We've actually kind of made an ethical choice in society to not have coral reefs.
Fossilized coral.
Ocean acidification is a really big issue that people are concerned with, as well as ocean warming, and the effects they're going to have on coral reefs.
On the scale of decades, in our lifetimes, we're going to see a lot of damage to coral reefs.
And actually most of the fish, they are a little spot on the debris, the piles of debris, were coral reef fish.
The bottom is transformed from, in this case, a hard bottom or soft coral into a muddy mess.
On your left, it's a clean coral reef, and on your right is a nearly dead coral reef that has a very intense fish farming operation in the waters there.
Now, as the past few slides about coral reefs may have suggested, I do indeed spend much of my time as a researcher thinking about human-microbe interactions, specifically on coral reefs.
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.
So when I use image analysis software to highlight the outer layer of the coral in white, you can see that there are still some tiny little blue dots above that layer.
And those bacteria are sitting in a mucus layer, which is also part of the coral's protective layer.
Believe it or not, the picture on your right remains a very popular tourist snorkeling spot on the island of Maui, even though it's lost most of its coral cover over the past decade or so.
I see the microbes on the coral reefs, both the good ones and the bad ones, trying to link their micro-scale behaviors to this big picture of: How do we help the reef that looks like the right back towards something that looks more like the left?
Or: How do we stop coral disease from spreading?
We're looking at a side view of the same coral as before, where the protective layer meets the seawater; so, seawater on your right, coral on your left.
And it's using a device like this that I recently discovered that a known coral pathogen actually has the ability to sniff around the seawater and hunt for corals.
You'll see all of the pathogens which are the tiny green dots on the left start detecting the coral mucus I put on the right side of the channel, and they swim quickly over in that direction and stay there.
It turns out that this pathogen can even detect the coral mucus when I dilute it 20,000 fold.
There's also some evidence that the healthy microbes on the coral can fight off the pathogen if the conditions are right.
So, one final image of a coral and its healthy bacteria.
We hope that we can sometime clean up oil spills, or we can gather or collect plastic in the ocean, or we can have swarms of our machines controlled by multi-player video game engines to control many of these machines, to monitor coral reefs or to monitor fisheries.
On the right, there is a coral.
You have things like coral.
And the reason that is, is because in a place like this island, a lot of the sand is made of biological material because the reefs provide a place where all these microscopic animals or macroscopic animals grow, and when they die, their shells and their teeth and their bones break up and they make grains of sand, things like coral and so forth.
So here we see, for example, a sponge spicule, two bits of coral here, that's a sea urchin spine.
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