Exploring The Hidden World of Protists: Surviving & Thriving Without Oxygen
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we are joined by Courtney Stairs to discuss the fascinating world of protists. These unique organisms, which are neither animals, land plants, fungi, nor bacteria, represent a vastly unexplored biomass on our planet – and Courtney is on a mission to learn as much as she can about them…
Courtney focuses her research on discovering how microbial eukaryotes – a.k.a "protists" – have evolved to thrive in low-oxygen environments. How do they thrive in challenging ecosystems? What does this tell us about how different organisms communicate and interact? Tune in now to expand your scientific knowledge!
In this conversation, we explore:
- What protists are.
- Why protists are considered a "biologist's playground."
- Examples of harmful microbial eukaryotes.
- How protists are able to thrive without oxygen.
- To learn more about Courtney and her work, click here now!
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
| 0:40.0 | now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.0 | My guest today is Courtney Stayers. |
| 0:45.2 | She's an associate senior lecturer, |
| 0:46.9 | part of the microbiology group at Lund University. |
| 0:49.7 | And we're going to talk about what's called |
| 0:51.4 | microbial eukaryotes or protists and her research surrounding them. |
| 0:56.0 | So welcome Courtney. |
| 0:57.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, if you would, maybe a quick background on yourself, how you got to this area and then why do you study protists? What's interesting about them? on your just playground because there's so much unknown about these organisms. |
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| 1:29.6 | you have in your front lawn, a maple tree or something, And if you were to think of every leaf on that branch |
| 1:34.6 | as a major group of organisms, animals, plants, fungi, |
| 1:39.5 | each one of those, so these things that you see around the world today, each one of those would maybe represent |
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