Københavns Universitets Videoportal

Podcast: Illustrating the microbiome.mp4

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:21:22 GMT

In this episode of the Evolutionary Hologenomics Podcast, we chat with Daphne Perlman from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel about her research work in microbiology, as well as scientific illustration and data visualisation.

Halloween special spooky microbes.mp4

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:04:32 GMT

October is Halloween month, so we did a special spooky episode with Professor Rob Dunn from North Carolina State University!

Microbes are everywhere and they are an indivisible part of us, influencing from our health, to the way we smell to even our behaviour. There are around 200 000 species of microbes in your house! Cleaning your house too much actually results in selecting for the 2% that are the bad ones. So...Since microbes are here to stay and are an integral part of us, we need to make peace with that and start acknowledging them as such. Have you tried talking to the microbes in your belly button?
Scary can take many forms, so here is a scary ending note: one of the microbes historically commonly found in breast milk and the gut of babies is becoming rarer and rarer and we don’t know why.

MICROBES – Metabolic science on display in the 'The World is in You'

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:21:56 GMT

Learn how CBMR's science ended up on display at 'The World is in You' – a major exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

In this video, CBMR Associate Professor Mani Arumugam discusses how his research into the microbiome and its role in metabolic health and disease was integrated into the exhibition.

With him is Associate Professor Adam Bencard from the Medical Museion, one of the four curators of the exhibition, which examines the many ways that people and the planet are connected.

The Medical Museion is a museum of medical history and also, like CBMR, part of the University of Copenhagen. While they are home to a historic collection of medical objects and put on exhibitions, they also carry out research. Some of this research takes place within CBMR, under the research programme Metabolic Science in Culture.

This is a unique collaboration whose goal is situate metabolic science in cultural, historical, and philosophical context through humanities and science communication research, which in turn informs innovative public engagement practices.