Webinar: The Microbial Matters
In this webinar experts from both marine and terrestrial systems will discuss microbial diversity and why it matters. And of course, discuss what biodiversity funders should be trying to do about it!
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Feb 22, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (All Times Pacific) |
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Wednesday Feb 22, 10 am Pacific Time
Moderated by Ken Wilson, The Christensen Fund
As the application of the concept of biodiversity has reached out beyond the visibly charismatic we’ve been discovering that not only is there way more species diversity at the microbial level than ever imagined, but that at this level the genetic and basic biochemical diversity across groups is generally far more striking than in the “higher” life forms. Furthermore a constant stream of new discoveries finds that microbial diversity plays a much larger role than previous understood in ecosystem function across all scales, and, ominously, that human activities are dramatically if largely invisibly altering this diversity in ecosystems, in the lands and waters we use most intensively, and indeed in our own bodies.
Speakers:
Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist.He is the author or editor of twenty-four books and has been honored with a MacArthur “genius” award. He works as most of the year as a research scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona.
Mitchell Sogin, Ph.D., is an evolutionary biologist and director of the Josephine Bay Paul Center in Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution and senior scientist with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His areas of expertise include chemistry, microbiology, industrial microbiology and biochemisty.He has published many scholarly articles on his research.
