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Oil for Food – Microbe Style
Posted by Kevin Bonham on April 20, 2012 Yesterday on Marketplace, there was a great piece by Alex Chadwick on the fate of all the oil released during the BP oil spill two years ago. Oil is a product of organic matter that was deposited many, many years ago. It’s gone through many, many changes deep in earth under high pressure, high temperature…
Don’t forget Boston: lecture on the microbes of the gut… TONIGHT!
Posted by Kevin Bonham on November 3, 2010 If you’re in the Boston area, come see me (and two other awesome grad students) give a talk on microbes, especially the ones that live in you and on you. We’ve got everything from fecal transplants to whether bacteria can make you fat or not. Come out to Armenise amphitheater at the Harvard Medical School…
The microscopic workforce in the Gulf of Mexico
Posted by Dipti Nayak on November 2, 2010 A lot has been said, written, and discussed about the recent Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill has been capped but the damage remains. The Gulf of Mexico has now become the feedstock of several battles, fierce and feeble, in the legal, political and scientific realm. What battles you say? It’s what…
Science in the News: Microbes of the Gut!
Posted by Kevin Bonham on November 1, 2010 We beasties came together through our love of microbes, but also through a graduate student group called Science in the News. SITN is completely run by graduate students, and our mission (much like the mission of this blog) is to share our love of science with the general public. We have a lot of events…
