🛢️🔬This Thursday at the BayCEER Colloquium:

Prof. Dr. Rainer Meckenstock dives into the hidden world of #microbes in deep oil reservoirs! 🌍 Tiny #water droplets in oil? Yes, and they host isolated #microbial life!

#MicrobialEcology #OilReservoirs #sciencetalk
🗓️ July 11
🕐12:30 p.m
📍H6, GEO building

🦠 #OilReservoirs harbor unseen microbial worlds! 🌍🔬 @alexjprobst.bsky.social lab study of a pristine reservoir reveals bacteria & fungi breaking down #hydrocarbons—and a global network of shared genes. But the mystery of plasmid distribution pattern remains! 🧬 #Biodegradation
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