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Final cover choice for The Small Guide to Small Things.
This is the one I went with. What do you think? It’s due out soon, currently collating reviews!
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One possible cover design for The Book
Coming soon.
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A Milestone. Thanks!
Please check out the book https://tinyurl.com/Warhol-Small-Guide
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New Jersey State Microbe T Shirts
Rutgers Ag Field Day is on April 28. Every red-blooded microbiologist and New Jersey Resident should head on over to the Biochemistry and Microbiology venue and get an official State Microbe T shirt. Thanks to Professor Haggblom for cultivating these!
And, you know, you can get a Periodic Table of Microbes T shirt or coffee mug on https://www.cafepress.com/warholscience
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New Jersey State Microbe Gains a Senate Sponsor
This is great news. It was made possible by the support we are getting from microbiologists and other scientists throughout the state (and the rest of the world!). Thank you!
The New bill numbers for 2018 are
Senate S1729
Assembly A3650
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And let’s not forget the Streptomyces is #62 on Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes.
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Small Guide to Small Things
Another cover option for The Periodic Table of Microbes, The Small Guide to Small Things.
Hurry and order your Periodic Table of Microbes poster!
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Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes
100. Fm. Fusobacterium
You have to love a genus of bacteria with species names like necrophorum, necrogenes, mortiferum, pseudonecrophorum, ulcerans, and perfoetens.
If your Latin is rusty, here’s a hint: these organisms stink like death. The genus Fusobacterium is generally associated with death and decay, and if the host is not dead yet, some form of infection. While this is memorable, they are considered part of the normal oral flora of humans and animals when they are not creating stinky infections.
They are also good at building biofilms.
This is a Gram negative anaerobe.
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Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes, The Small Guide to Small Things
98. Cf. Chloroflexus
Not the Latin name for The Incredible Hulk, Chloroflexus is an extremophile that lives in hot springs at around 140 Fahrenheit.
Only 2 species in the genus, so it’s a rare little beastie.
It is motile via gliding, at 0.04 microns per second, gee that’s slow. Photosynthetic, but in a unique way that is not like plants or green- or purple-sulfur bacteria. Hates oxygen. Actually a photoheterotroph, so it can snack on organic molecules. It changes color if grown in light vs dark environments.
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Microbiology Symposium at Rutgers
I am excited to be giving the Perspectives in Microbiology talk at Rutgers next week during their 11th annual Microbiology Symposium. Many thanks to the Chairman and Dean for inviting me.
I’ll be talking about “How to get a State Microbe” and our experience with Strep griseus in New Jersey. It’s an interesting confluence of science, history, and politics. The only challenge is to keep it to 15 minutes!
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Think Globally, Drink Locally
Waiting for dinner with my brilliant daughter in Scotty’s Brewhouse in Indiana, I noticed the logo on the back of the waitress’s shirt:
Think Globally, Drink Locally
Which prompted the following conversation:
Me: Wow that is so cool. Her T-shirt says “Think Globally, Drink Locally.” I wonder if she knows the origins and significance of that saying?
Daughter: Don’t ask her.
Me: I have to! This is a teachable moment! Someone can learn something without pain!
Daughter: Is this going to be about microbes? Again?
Me: Absolutely! The story goes like this: Once upon a time there was a famous microbiologist by the name of Dr Rene Dubos (pronounced du-Boze). He got his PhD at Rutgers and did incredible disciplined work with soil bacteria. He was able to isolate the antibiotic gramicidin in 1939, and it had great use for a while as a topical agent. This was ground-breaking work back then.
Daughter: And he drank locally a lot?
Me: No, he saw that life beyond the lab was important too, and he looked at the interplay of the environment, culture, human activity, and society; he wrote many books, one of them won a Pulitzer Prize for Non Fiction. The main point of his book So Human an Animal is that technology is dehumanizing us and that science needs to be humanized.
So he’s a scientist who won a Pulitzer Prize.
Daughter: And he liked to drink around the globe?
Me: No! He was a big deal environmental microbiologist and served as advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. He is credited as the author of the saying “Think Globally, Act Locally” back in 1972, which means problems on a global scale can be fixed (or start with) problems on a local scale.
Daughter: And …
Me: And the environmental cause has latched on to his thinking for everything from the problems caused by disposable water bottles to the persistence of prescription drugs in the water supply.
And with all that background, do you think the waitress has been properly told the history of the slogan on her back?
Daughter: No, she’s working for tips.
Me: I have to ask her! I’m old and eccentric and clearly ain’t trying to pick her up. “Excuse me miss, do you know where that slogan on your T-shirt came from?”
Daughter: Oh God. (Burying her face in her sleeve)
Waitress: I think it’s ‘cause the guys who own the bar want you to drink their beer. But I could ask the manager.
Me: Well yes and no. Here’s the bigger answer. It’s actually based on a very famous saying by a famous microbiologist … and so on.
Time passed while I rambled on …
Waitress: Wow, I had no idea. That’s awesome. I had no idea that science was connected to so much stuff!
Me: Thanks. Now it’s your job to tell that story to two of your friends, and then they can tell two of their friends, and so on.
A couple of months passed by and I found myself in Scotty’s Brewhouse again, this time eating dinner with some additional brilliant veterinary students.
Me: Do you see that saying on the menu “Think Globally, Drink Locally”?
Them: Yes.
Me: Do you know where it comes from?
Daughter: Again?
Them: Oh my God! Is this a test? I don’t know there was going to be a test! Wait, let me think. (at which point several smart phones were pulled out and a whole bunch of Googling ensued)
Me: What do you mean again? This is part of having a well-rounded scientific education.
Them: Wait! Is this a science test or a beer test? Oh God, I can’t find an answer!
Me: OK, Once upon a time there was a famous microbiologist by the name of Dr Rene Dubos. …
I look forward to dining at Scotty’s again.
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Ongoings
Thank you all for stopping by and following.
The Small Guide to Small Things is moving along. A couple of reviewers thought that a cross reference would be a nice idea, and it is, but it took a while to construct.
That, plus when the chemists and physicists officially named those odd heavy elements, I had to revise Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes as well as The Small Guide to Small Things.
So I haven’t been looking at Tumblr or Twitter, sorry.
But wow, does it read great!
And the Official New Jersey Microbe (Streptomyces griseus) is still alive. The election cycle was a priority for congress, maybe when things settle down they will vote on it. Be sure and tell all your New Jersey friends and scientists about it.
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New Jersey Microbe
Micro Hero Cocktail
I will do anything to get the word out about the NJ State Microbe so that people discover the microbial world. This cocktail celebrates the State Microbe! It’s small and powerful, and by the way, it kills the plague. Easy to order and drink. It’s like a rum and coke with a vodka enhancement. Or half of a Long Island Iced Tea.
To all you scientists out there, start asking for these at your favorite pub, it’s a guaranteed conversation starter.
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96. Cm. Campylobacter
Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes, The Small Guide to Small Things
Happy campers never have Campylobacter. Diarrhea, belly ache, and Guillain Barre Syndrome are some of the things you can expect with a Campylobacter infection. Especially a problem in that soupy slimey chicken water that drips out of your grocery store purchase.
Around 50 species, one was found in lion-talied macaque poop, and another in inguanas.
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The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017:
Profound Effects on Dog Behavior
Gracie my Italian Greyhound before, during, and after the eclipse.
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Happy Halloween!
We’ve been busy.
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95. Am. Amphibacillus
Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes, The Small Guide to Small Things
Not an amphibian bacillus, but a microbe that can grow as an aerobe and anearobe. First discovered in 1990, these tough little guys can live in water up to 110 F and pH 10.5! That’s the equivalent of some very hot Drano drain cleaner.
With the right microscope, you could see that some of these have reeeally long flagella.
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