Nicholas Money at Beaty Museum, UBC Oct. 3 2013

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    Amoeba in the Room:
    Why Animals and Plants Don't Matter Very Much
    Thursday, October 3, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

    UBC Earth Sciences Building, Ross Beaty Lecture Theatre
    Here are some facts of life: a drop of seawater contains 100,000 bacteria and millions of predatory viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes whose activities are a mystery; the atmosphere is misted with 50 million tons of fungal spores that affect the weather; and, our bodies are farmed by vast populations of bacteria and viruses that control every aspect of our well-being. The more we learn about microbial biodiversity, the less important animals and plants become in understanding life on earth. The flowering of microbial science is revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined just a few years ago and is inspiring a new view of what it means to be human.

    Presenter: Nicholas Money, Miami University

    Nicholas Money is Professor of Botany and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers on fungal biology and has published four books, including Mushroom (2011), described by Nature as a “brilliant scientific and cultural exploration.” The Amoeba in the Room, his new book to be published by Oxford University Press in 2014, examines the extraordinary diversity of the microbial world and the invisible majority of life that is detectable only using molecular methods.

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