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Bacteria Can Be Your Best Friend – Ned Ruby and Margaret McFall-Ngai

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Dr. Ngai and Dr. Ruby’s research focuses on host responses to interactions with beneficial microbes. Within this context, the studies of their laboratory address five major questions: How are environmentally rare bacteria harvested from the hosts/s? habitat during the onset of a horizontally transmitted symbiosis?; By what mechanisms does the host recognize its specific symbiotic partner(s)?; What are the influences of symbiotic bacteria on the developmental of the host tissues with which they associate?; How is the symbiont population maintained in balance over the host’s lifetime, such that neither does the symbiont overgrow the host nor does the host eliminate the symbiont?; What are the similarities and differences between pathogenic and beneficial animal-bacterial interactions? Tune in to hear about the exciting research happening at UH Manoa.

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The host for this episode was Jay Fidell.

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