Discovering Fossilized Microbes in Antarctic Ice Cores With Manuel Martinez Garcia

<p>Manuel Martinez Garcia, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology in the Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology Department at the University of Alicante in Spain, paints a picture of what microbial life looked like thousands of years ago by analyzing microbial genomic signatures within ice cores collected from the Antarctic ice shelves in the 1990s. </p> <h3>Links for the Episode </h3> <ul> <li><a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/msphere.00073-24?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New avenues for potentially seeking microbial responses to climate change beneath Antarctic ice shelves</a> – mSphere paper. </li> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44028-x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Viruses under the Antarctic Ice Shelf are active and potentially involved in global nutrient cycles</a> – Nature communications article. </li> <li><a href= "https://www.researchgate...