Today, Dr. Ameet Pinto, Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the microbiome of drinking water and how it can be used to optimize safety and health.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Ameet Pinto
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Links for this episode
- A short review of a famous article by Dr. Norman Pace about the microbiome of showers and how microbial populations differed due to chlorination.
- An old discussion of microbial oligotrophy: the ability to survive on very low levels of nutrients.
- The story of John Snow, a water fountain, and cholera in England.
- The concept of “Live/Dead” staining of microbes.
- An overview of the concept of metagenomics.
- An article on the microbiome of shower hoses.
- A public science outreach program to study the microbiome of showerheads.
- The Instagram link for Dr. Pinto’s wonderful cat, Nessie.
- A great book describing exceptions to Mendelian genetics using cats: “Cats Are Not Peas.” Highly recommended.
- An article about water supplies and the pathogenic microbe Legionella.
- An overview of water disinfection techniques.
- An introduction to a model system of a microbial soil community, called THOR by Jo Handelsman and colleagues.
- Thinking of water treatment and related technologies as a series of ecological niches, via Tom Curtis and Bill Sloane.
- Dr. Pinto’s faculty website.
- Dr. Pinto’s deeply fascinating research group website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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