Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face
Anne Madden: Conoce la vida microscópica de tu hogar... y de tu cara
Whether brewing better beer, discovering novel antibiotics or chronicling the lives of the microscopic creatures living in the dust under the couch, Anne Madden seeks to understand and utilize the microbial world around us. Full bio
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thousands of microscopic creatures
miles de criaturas microscópicas
from the air ducts today.
of the 100 billion bacterial cells
100 000 millones de células de bacterias
at your skin oils and replicating,
de la piel y se han replicado,
the fecal bacteria
con las bacterias fecales
you flushed a toilet,
descargaron el inodoro,
in our water pipes
en las tuberías de agua
with your last shower.
en la última ducha.
a microscopic high five
a nivel microscópico
that live on our faces,
que viven en nuestros rostros,
squirming across your face
contoneándose en sus rostros
their gut contents onto your pores.
su contenido intestinal en sus poros.
how you feel in the future.
más cercana a nosotros.
a bug in your house
un bicho en sus casas
solution for that,
of the microscopic life in our world now.
la vida microscópica en nuestro mundo.
the best source of new technology
la mejor fuente de nueva tecnología
human solutions to microbial problems,
soluciones humanas a problemas microbianos
microbial solutions to human problems.
soluciones microbianas a problemas humanos.
with researchers
con investigadores
and the University of Colorado
del Norte y de la Universidad de Colorado
life that is nearest us,
que está más cerca de nosotros,
and boring environments,
más íntimos y aburridos,
en nuestros patios traseros,
that we know very little
sabemos muy poco
that's nearest us.
que está más cerca de nosotros.
no scientist could tell you
ningún científico podía decir
live in your home --
vivía en nuestros hogares...
better than anywhere else.
mejor que cualquier otro lugar.
life nearest us.
más cercana a nosotros.
over 600 species of bugs
más de 600 especies de bichos
of bacteria and fungi
de hongos y bacterias
on our clothes or in our showers.
en nuestra ropa o en nuestras duchas.
of each of those bugs in our home.
de esos bichos de nuestra casa.
unfold in a petri plate,
en una placa de Petri,
you're looking at right now
remains unknown.
sigue siendo desconocida.
y tuve que denominar una nueva especie.
and got to name a new species.
in the nest of a paper wasp.
de una avispa de papel.
in the nest of another.
es que vive en el nido de otro.
growing on a dinosaur,
thinks dinosaurs are cool.
los dinosaurios son geniales.
en la escuela de posgrado,
that I had found this new life form.
esta nueva forma de vida.
a new microorganism species."
nueva especie de microorganismo".
discovered a cure for it."
hayas descubierto una cura para eso".
to kill my new little life form,
él quería matar mi nueva forma de vida,
and in people's backyards,
laboratorios y patios de las personas,
the microscopic life around us,
la vida microscópica que nos rodea,
my true mission to him.
mi verdadera misión.
life around us.
que nos rodea.
from this life, that will help save us.
en esa vida, que nos ayude a salvarnos.
than a list of 100,000 new species.
es más que las 100 000 especies nuevas.
of solutions to human problems.
a los problemas humanos.
that anything that's so small
que algo tan diminuto
are microscopic alchemists,
son alquimistas microscópicos,
their environment
anywhere on this planet,
en cualquier parte del planeta,
food is around them.
que esté a su alrededor.
from toxic waste to plastic,
desde residuos tóxicos hasta plásticos,
like oil and battery power
como petróleo y carga de baterías
into nutritive.
en algo nutritivo.
these microscopic creatures
con estas criaturas microscópicas
de nuestros problemas.
to choose from.
bad-smelling clothes or bland food.
ropa con mal olor o comida sosa.
the microscopic life around us,
la vida microscópica que nos rodea,
well-suited to help us with.
bien adaptado para ayudarnos.
en muchas de nuestras casas.
a little-known microorganism species
especie poco conocida de microorganismos
a few species on this planet have.
algunas especies en el planeta.
producida a lo largo de la historia
beer you've ever had
three microorganism species.
especies de microorganismos.
a beer that tasted like honey,
hacer una cerveza con gusto a miel,
a delightfully tart beer.
una deliciosa cerveza amarga.
that lives in the belly of a wasp,
que vive en el vientre de una avispa,
on this planet.
en el planeta.
that produce commercial beer.
que producen cerveza comercial.
de degustar nuestra cerveza favorita.
your future favorite beer.
to dig in the dirt in people's backyards.
en el patio trasero de la gente.
that could make novel antibiotics,
que podría crear nuevos antibióticos,
the world's worst superbugs.
a las peores superbacterias del mundo.
del suelo.
and everyone in this room
y todos en esta sala,
that produce most of our antibiotics.
que crean la mayoría de los antibióticos.
comes from colleagues
a pond scum microorganism,
de escoria de estanque,
estiércol de vaca donde fue descubierto.
the cow dung it was first found in.
and would be unworthy of discussion,
y no valdría la pena discutirlo,
que si uno alimenta ratones con esto,
that if you feed it to mice,
now think of hope.
ahora vemos esperanza.
to talk about today.
that came from just three species,
que vienen de solo tres especies,
100,000 species in your dust bunnies
100 000 especies del polvo de los conejos
to make you sexier
at your finger again.
microscopic creatures
criaturas microscópicas
what they might be able to do
ser capaces de hacer en el futuro,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anne Madden - Microbiologist, inventor and strategistWhether brewing better beer, discovering novel antibiotics or chronicling the lives of the microscopic creatures living in the dust under the couch, Anne Madden seeks to understand and utilize the microbial world around us.
Why you should listen
Dr. Anne Madden studies the ways that our dimly understood microbial neighbors can yield surprising discoveries, including solutions to many of our human problems. Alongside her colleagues at North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado, she discovers what life exists around us, and how it can be employed to make our lives better, from new medications to new food and beverage flavors. She's helped create novel brewing technology (see more in her 2016 TEDx Charlotte talk), discovered a new fungus species living inside wasp nests and cataloged the astonishing diversity of some of the microscopic and macroscopic life in our homes by investigating the DNA in our dust.
In addition to her research work at North Carolina State University, Madden is chief strategist and partner at the brewing yeast company Lachancea LLC and consults for a variety of industries from biotechnology and lifestyle companies to textile and food companies. Her work has been featured on numerous media platforms, including National Geographic, Newsweek, Scientific American and PBS NewsHour.
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