Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face
אן מאדן: הכירו את החיים המקרוסקופים בביתכם - ועל הפנים שלכם
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
from the air ducts today.
of the 100 billion bacterial cells
at your skin oils and replicating,
the fecal bacteria
you flushed a toilet,
שהורדתם מים בשרותים.
in our water pipes
with your last shower.
a microscopic high five
that live on our faces,
squirming across your face
their gut contents onto your pores.
את תוכן המעי שלהם לנקבוביות שלכם.
how you feel in the future.
a bug in your house
solution for that,
of the microscopic life in our world now.
את רוב החיים המיקרוסקופים בעולמנו.
the best source of new technology
הטוב ביותר לטכנולוגיה חדשה
human solutions to microbial problems,
לבעיות מיקרוביאליות
microbial solutions to human problems.
יחשפו פתרונות מיקרוביאליים לבעיות אנושיות
with researchers
and the University of Colorado
life that is nearest us,
הקרובים לנו
and boring environments,
והמשעממת ביותר שלנו
that we know very little
בגלל שאנחנו יודעים מעט מאוד
that's nearest us.
no scientist could tell you
live in your home --
חיים בביתכם -
better than anywhere else.
טוב יותר מכל מקום אחר.
life nearest us.
הקרובים לנו.
over 600 species of bugs
of bacteria and fungi
של בקטריות ופטריות
on our clothes or in our showers.
of each of those bugs in our home.
unfold in a petri plate,
פרוס בצלחת פטרי,
you're looking at right now
remains unknown.
and got to name a new species.
בה מצאתי ונתתי שם למין חדש.
in the nest of a paper wasp.
in the nest of another.
growing on a dinosaur,
thinks dinosaurs are cool.
that I had found this new life form.
a new microorganism species."
discovered a cure for it."
to kill my new little life form,
להרוג את צורת החיים החדשה שלי,
and in people's backyards,
ובחצרות אחוריות של אנשים,
the microscopic life around us,
my true mission to him.
life around us.
from this life, that will help save us.
מהחיים האלו, שתעזור להציל אותנו.
than a list of 100,000 new species.
עולה על רשימה של 100,000 מינים חדשים.
of solutions to human problems.
של פתרונות לבעיות אנושיות.
that anything that's so small
are microscopic alchemists,
their environment
anywhere on this planet,
בכל מקום על כדוה"א,
food is around them.
from toxic waste to plastic,
מפסולת מזוהמת ועד לפלסטיק,
like oil and battery power
כמו שמן וכוח סוללה
into nutritive.
these microscopic creatures
שהיצורים המיקרוסקופים האלה
to choose from.
bad-smelling clothes or bland food.
בגדים בעלי ריח רע או אוכל תפל
the microscopic life around us,
well-suited to help us with.
בכדי לעזור לנו.
a little-known microorganism species
הוצאנו מיקרואורגניזם לא ידוע
a few species on this planet have.
על כדוה"א מסוגלים לה.
beer you've ever had
ששתיתם עד היום
three microorganism species.
שלושה מינים של מיקרואורגניזמים.
a beer that tasted like honey,
a delightfully tart beer.
that lives in the belly of a wasp,
on this planet.
that produce commercial beer.
your future favorite beer.
to dig in the dirt in people's backyards.
באדמה בחצרות אחוריות בבתים.
that could make novel antibiotics,
שיכול להכין אנטיביוטיקה חדשה,
the world's worst superbugs.
and everyone in this room
that produce most of our antibiotics.
שמייצרות את רוב האנטיביוטיקה שלנו.
comes from colleagues
a pond scum microorganism,
the cow dung it was first found in.
בה הוא נמצא לראשונה.
and would be unworthy of discussion,
that if you feed it to mice,
now think of hope.
תחשבו עכשיו על תקווה.
to talk about today.
that came from just three species,
שבאו משלושה זנים בלבד,
100,000 species in your dust bunnies
בכדורי האבק שלנו
to make you sexier
at your finger again.
microscopic creatures
what they might be able to do
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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