Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face
Anne Madden: Conheçam a vida microscópia em vossa casa — e na vossa 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
de criaturas microscópicas
e nos nossos dedos.
saíram dos tubos de ar.
from the air ducts today.
e o cheiro a bafio.
of the 100 billion bacterial cells
de células bacterianas
at your skin oils and replicating,
os cheiros do nosso corpo.
the fecal bacteria
nas bactérias fecais
you flushed a toilet,
que descarregaram o autoclismo
in our water pipes
nos canos da água
with your last shower.
tomaram um duche.
a microscopic high five
a "dar mais cinco" microscópicos
que vivem na vossa cara,
that live on our faces,
squirming across your face
a contorcer-se na vossa cara
na ponta do vosso nariz.
their gut contents onto your pores.
as tripas nos vossos poros.
de sabão ou lixívia?
how you feel in the future.
vão deixar de se sentir assim.
temos tido uma relação adversa
a bug in your house
solution for that,
exterminar, desinfetar.
of the microscopic life in our world now.
o mais possível a vida microscópica
the best source of new technology
a melhor fonte da nova tecnologia
human solutions to microbial problems,
arranjámos soluções humanas
microbial solutions to human problems.
arranjaremos soluções microbianas
with researchers
com investigadores
and the University of Colorado
e da Universidade do Colorado
life that is nearest us,
que nos rodeia
and boring environments,
nos ambientes mais íntimos e aborrecidos,
nos nossos quintais,
that we know very little
que sabemos muito pouco
that's nearest us.
que nos rodeia.
no scientist could tell you
nenhum cientista nos sabia dizer
live in your home --
viviam nas nossas casas
better than anywhere else.
melhor do que outro qualquer.
life nearest us.
à nossa volta.
over 600 species of bugs
de 600 espécies de insetos
que se agarram às penas.
of bacteria and fungi
de bactérias e fungos
on our clothes or in our showers.
na nossa roupa ou nos chuveiros.
of each of those bugs in our home.
de cada um dos insetos em nossa casa.
unfold in a petri plate,
numa placa de Petri,
de espécies vibrantes.
you're looking at right now
remains unknown.
continua desconhecida.
and got to name a new species.
a uma nova espécie.
in the nest of a paper wasp.
in the nest of another.
que vive no ninho de outros.
growing on a dinosaur,
aumentada como um dinossauro,
thinks dinosaurs are cool.
que os dinossauros são giros.
pós-graduação
that I had found this new life form.
encontrado esta nova forma de vida
a new microorganism species."
de um micro-organismo!"
discovered a cure for it."
tenhas descoberto uma cura para isso".
to kill my new little life form,
a minha nova forma de vida,
como enquanto cientista.
and in people's backyards,
em laboratórios e quintais das pessoas,
the microscopic life around us,
a vida microscópica à nossa volta,
my true mission to him.
a minha verdadeira missão.
encontrar tecnologia
life around us.
microscópia que nos rodeia.
uma nova tecnologia
from this life, that will help save us.
than a list of 100,000 new species.
de cem mil novas espécies.
of solutions to human problems.
de soluções para os problemas humanos.
that anything that's so small
que uma coisa tão diminuta
mas pode.
são alquimistas microscópicos
are microscopic alchemists,
their environment
o seu ambiente
anywhere on this planet,
em qualquer parte neste planeta
food is around them.
que exista à sua volta.
from toxic waste to plastic,
desde o lixo tóxico até ao plástico
like oil and battery power
como petróleo e energia elétrica
into nutritive.
numa coisa nutritiva.
these microscopic creatures
se utilizarão estas criaturas microscópicas
dos nossos problemas.
to choose from.
por onde escolher.
bad-smelling clothes or bland food.
da roupa ou a comida sem sabor.
the microscopic life around us,
microscópica à nossa volta,
well-suited to help us with.
bem adaptado para nos ajudar.
das nossas casas.
a little-known microorganism species
de micro-organismo pouco conhecida,
a few species on this planet have.
algumas espécies deste planeta têm.
beer you've ever had
provém, provavelmente,
three microorganism species.
de micro-organismos.
a beer that tasted like honey,
uma cerveja que sabia a mel
a delightfully tart beer.
deliciosamente amarga.
that lives in the belly of a wasp,
que vive no interior duma vespa
on this planet.
outra espécie do planeta.
that produce commercial beer.
que produzem cerveja comercial.
your future favorite beer.
a vossa cerveja preferida.
to dig in the dirt in people's backyards.
a escavar o estrume em quintais.
that could make novel antibiotics,
que fazia antibióticos novos,
the world's worst superbugs.
os piores insetos do mundo.
and everyone in this room
aqui nesta sala e neste planeta
that produce most of our antibiotics.
semelhantes, da terra,
dos antibióticos.
comes from colleagues
é talvez o dos meus colegas
a pond scum microorganism,
um micro-organismo da espuma dos charcos
the cow dung it was first found in.
foi descoberto em excrementos de vaca.
and would be unworthy of discussion,
e nem valeria a pena analisá-lo
that if you feed it to mice,
terem descoberto
vacinava-os contra o PSPT.
now think of hope.
pensem agora em esperança.
to talk about today.
that came from just three species,
provenientes apenas de três espécies,
100,000 species in your dust bunnies
cem mil espécies nas vossa casas
to make you sexier
tornar-vos mais sensuais
at your finger again.
para os vossos dedos.
microscopic creatures
criaturas microscópicas
what they might be able to do
elas poderão fazer
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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