Anne Blair Gould reports from the RAI on the 9th International Symposium on microbial ecology, attended by 1700 microbe ecologists. She meets a host of Dutch and foreign experts who explain the latest developments in their field: biofilms (slime, not movies), bacteria “talking” to each other, as well as microsensors as a tool to investigate bacteria outside the laboratory. And they can live just about anywhere, even several kilometres below the sea surface.
Producer: Anne Blair Gould
Broadcast: October 15, 2003
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