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And those colored globs are microbes that are actually swimming around in this room right now, all around us.
What excites me about using microbes is their efficiency.
Ultimately, maybe it won't even be fashion where we see these microbes have their impact.
Buildings are complex ecosystems that are an important source of microbes that are good for us, and some that are bad for us.
What determines the types and distributions of microbes indoors?
Buildings are colonized by airborne microbes that enter through windows and through mechanical ventilation systems.
The fate of microbes indoors depends on complex interactions with humans, and with the human-built environment.
At the Biology and the Built Environment Center, we carried out a study in a hospital where we sampled air and pulled the DNA out of microbes in the air.
It has microbes on it that are commonly associated with our skin and with our mouth, our spit.
And this is because we're all constantly shedding microbes.
So all of you right now are sharing your microbes with one another.
And when you're outdoors, that type of air has microbes that are commonly associated with plant leaves and with dirt.
So just as we manage national parks, where we promote the growth of some species and we inhibit the growth of others, we're working towards thinking about buildings using an ecosystem framework where we can promote the kinds of microbes that we want to have indoors.
There are also a number of features that vary between continents like that that have to do with how we metabolize food that we ingest, or that have to do with how our immune systems deal with microbes that try to invade our bodies.
But the really intriguing thing about the microbes is just how diverse they are.
A single drop of seawater could contain 160 different types of microbes.
Microbes are actually eating the hull of the Titanic.
The most important health challenges today are not caused by simple mutations in our genome, but rather result from a complex and dynamic interplay between genetic variation, diet, microbes and parasites and our immune response.
Tiny particles swirl down through the darkness while flashes of bioluminescence give us a clue that these waters teem with life: microbes, plankton, fish.
I'd like to take you on a journey into the sea, looking at it from the perspective of its smallest inhabitants: the microbes.
But luckily, we rarely get sick from that seawater, because most marine microbes are working for us, not against us.
And admittedly, they may be more huggable than the microbes.
Another quarter comes from macroalgae like kelp and a full 50% from the microbes.
I see our relationship with marine microbes as parallel in many ways to the relationship we have with microbes in our gut.
We've all experienced the wrath of unhappy gut microbes at one point or another, perhaps food poisoning or tainted water.
But we may be less aware of the connection we have with marine microbes and the physical discomforts we can feel when those communities change.
So while most marine microbes are indeed helping us, there do remain plenty that are not.
Our relationship with the ocean, much like our gut, is dependent on the right balance of microbes.
The old phrase, "You are what you eat" applies to our ocean microbes as well.
There may be less oxygen present, there may be more pathogens there, and there may be toxins produced by some of these microbes.
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