Events @ Warwick Chemistry

The AS and MAS CDT gives you: “I’ve got an electron microscope and I’m not afraid to use it! Extreme Pond Dipping”

Presented by Dr Saskia Bakker, Warwick School of Life Sciences.

Hosted virtually via Blackboard 12:00 Seminar via Black board. Guest link.

When you think about life in a pond or lake, it's probably ducks or fish that spring to mind. But they are massively outnumbered by the invisible bacteria and viruses. Few people realise the mind-blowing abundance of viruses in our environment. Every day around 800 million land on every square meter of the earth, a millilitre of seawater can contain tens of millions of them, and the local pond is basically viral soup. In this informal talk, I will discuss how the project got started, and how far we got with it before we got stopped by the human virus.