#93 - Gary Trubl: Soil Microbes & Viral Ecology
Storytellers of STEMM
English - January 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 63 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today's storyteller is Dr Gary Trubl! He's a microbiologist interested in the ecology of viruses, in particular in soil environments, and he's currently doing his post doc at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We talk about his research in rainforest soils in Puerto Rico and also in permafrost, and I ask him whether viruses are considered to be alive or not, which is a very contentious issue! He's also working to get viruses included in the search for life in outer space. This is out of my wheelhouse so I ask a lot of probably ridiculous questions (which is totally in my wheelhouse) so enjoy!
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You can find Gary Trubl on Twitter @gtrubl and his website.
Microbes Persist project website: https://sc-programs.llnl.gov/biological-and-environmental-research-at-llnl/soil-microbiome
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: https://www.llnl.gov/
Recorded on 3 October 2020.
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“Work conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was supported by the DOE Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research Genomic Science program award SCW1632 and LLNL LDRD 18-ERD-041 and conducted under the auspices of DOE Contract DE-AC52- 07NA27344.”