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MicrobeWorld is a family of programs that includes a video podcast by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) highlighting the latest in microbiology, life science, and related topics. In addition, MicrobeWorld has several podcasts; Meet the Scientist, This Week In Virology and Mundio de los Microbios. ASM is composed of over 42,000 scientists and health professionals with the mission to advance the microbial sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well-being worldwide. For more information about microbes, videos, news and resources visit us online at www.microbeworld.org. In the meantime, join our virtual biofilm by quorum sensing with us (a.k.a. "Add to Friends.")Subscribe to MicrobeWorld Video (It's Free)
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Subscribe to this FeedMicrobeWorld Video Episode 30 - Biofuels in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is widely known as the "La Isla del Encanto," which translated means "The Island of Enchantment." And while its beaches, tropical rain forest, and biolumescent bays are wonders of nature, the island is not without its problems. From energy needs to economics, Puerto Rico shares many issues facing the rest of the world.
In this MicrobeWorld Video episode we talk with Nadathur S. Govind, Ph.D., Professor, Marine Sciences Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and William Rosado, Marine Sciences Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, about the sustainable biofuel program they are launching in southwestern Puerto Rico.
According to Govind, the island's successful sugarcane industry died in the 1990's. In fact, local rum manufacturers now import their molasses from as far away as Malaysia. As a result, approximately 70 percent of the population in southwestern Puerto Rico is on welfare.
Govind believes he can rebuild the local economy by harnessing bacterial enzymes extracted from the guts of termites and shipworms (mollusks) found in the mangroves off the coast to break down the lignocellulose in sugarcane and hibiscus. The idea is that if he can bring agricultural production back to his community, he can use the crop waste to produce ethanol to supplement Puerto Rico's demand for fuel. And since the byproduct of ethanol is carbon dioxide, he also plans to use algae to capture the gas and produce biodiesel. The waste that he has left over can then be returned to the soil as fertilizer or given to livestock as feed, completing the cycle.
For more information about Govind's program please read the article, "Combining Agriculture with Microbial Genomics to Make Fuels", found in the American Society for Microbiology's Microbe magazine.
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Microbiologists, scientists, researchers, students, geeks and anyone interested in science.Microbe Links
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Dec 10 2009 3:13 PM
i think i'd risk an indigestion...
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Dec 9 2009 9:19 PM
this site is a "collection of unique artworks created using living bacteria, fungi, and protists."
here are some of my favourite works:
The first four petri dishes (by Niall Hamilton) are fungi and bacteria on agar.
The others (by Eshel Ben-Jacob) are "part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colors and shading are artistic additions, but the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of individual microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature."
more artists and galleries at http://www.microbialart.com/
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Nov 11 2008 11:13 AM
Do you have a reference for the work done on probiotics inhibiting shiga-toxin production that was mentioned in the recent episode or has it not been published yet? My research is in the area of probiotics, haven't heard about this trait until now, very interesting!
Thanks,
Karen
Oct 1 2008 9:11 PM
Best wishes for Microbe-team!
Sep 20 2008 4:27 AM
In belem i've seen bat bites.
they aren't like on tv. the bats
get you while you sleep biting
tiny pools on your fingertips and
toes which they lap up. they sometimes come so many times the
people can become anemic.
jojo
Sep 3 2008 4:35 PM
Just peeking in to say, "Hello."
jojo
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Ludwik Pasteur
Hi!
Thanks for the add.
Greetings from Warsaw!
Jul 4 2008 1:46 PM
Take care and all the best!
Valerie
Jun 6 2008 2:33 PM
If only man were as smart as dumb
bacteria and virus, we would know
the secret of cell membrane invasion.
Have a great weekend.jooooojo.
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All the best for u!
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Oct 8 2007 7:54 PM
Thanks for your comment! I'm glad that there is such an interest in the microbe world videos and that I was able to be a part of them!
GAH I am on ASMs mailing list now and they had to go and send me their fall catalogue.... so I was browsing and decided to do a little pre-Christmas shopping for myself.... I can resist anything except temptation... so I went ahead and ordered another book... Irwin Sherman has a follow up to The Power of Plagues, so I had to check it out... so within 5-10 business days I should be reading it!
Take care, I hope all is well with you!!
Valerie