Below the Seafloor:

How Microbes Survive and Thrive in Extreme Environments

July 29 | Presented by Dr. Melody Lindsay

DNA shows us what an organism is capable of, but not necessarily what it actively does.

Senior Research Scientist Melody Lindsay is working to link the activity of individual microbes to their genetic code — at the miniscule scale of single cells — focusing on the microbial communities living off tiny amounts of energy below the seafloor.

Take a journey from coastal Maine to deep within the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Earth’s crust splits open, as Lindsay discusses the important ecological roles and creative evolutionary adaptations of microbes thriving in some of the planet’s most extreme and inaccessible environments.

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