Matters Microbial #56: Marine Microbial Echoes of Evolution September 11, 2024
Today, Dr. Carolina Martinez Gutierrez of the Department of Earth Science at the University of California Santa Barbara joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss her research team’s efforts to unravel how ancient microbes thrived in the early oceans of Earth’s history . . . and to sing the praises of marine microbiology!
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Carolina Martinez Gutierrez
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Links for this episode
- An overview of the microbiome of the ocean and geochemistry.
- A description of likely conditions on Ancient Earth.
- An essay about the Great Oxidation Event—the event that changed our entire planet.
- An article by Dr. Martinez Gutierrez and colleagues discussing how phylogenomics can help dissect microbial evolution without fossils.
- An overview of Prochlorococcus, one of the microbes Dr. Martinez Gutierrez discussed.
- A wonderful video about Prochlorococcus and a remarkable scientist.
- An overview of Pelagibacteri ubique (SAR11), one of the microbes Dr. Martinez Gutierrez discussed. An article about the work of Dr. Martinez Gutierrez and her research interests while a postdoctoral scholar
- The departmental website for Dr. Martinez Gutierrez
- The laboratory website for Dr. Martinez Gutierrez’s research group.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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