Soil & Microbes
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Chapters
0:00
Intro
1:49
What is the difference between a cup of dirt and a cup of soil?
2:35
How many microorganisms can be found in a gram and a cup of soil?
3:08
What kinds of soils are there?
5:49
How do microbes fit into the food web?
7:33
Gases, respiration, and the nitrogen cycle.
9:46
The soil food web.
11:20
What would happen if we removed bacteria from the soil food web?
12:03
What would life on Earth be like without microbes - could life exist without microbes?
13:04
What got you interested in cyanobacteria?
13:30
Inventors of photosynthesis.
13:58
Dominant in extreme environments.
14:50
Cyanobacteria and sun screens.
18:09
Basic science and research.
21:20
Salt and extreme organisms - extremeophiles.
24:10
Astrobiology - life on other planets.
26:04
When did you first know you wanted to be a biologist or a scientist?
26:54
What would you be or do if you were not a biologist or scientist?
28:26
What advice do you have for someone wanting to be a biologist?
Ask A Biologist Podcast
Soil & Microbes
Oct 30, 2007
Episode 22
Dr. Biology Talks with Ferran Garcia-Pichel
An interview with microbiologist Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Listen in as Dr. Biology finds out that describing something as a "cup of dirt" may not be the best choice of words.
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