What’s Special About Bacteria? Matthew Baker Diarrhea and Dödgy Döners
Ignite London - phatmattbaker - Dirty Doner
Jul 01, 2015
The slides from my Ignite! talk at the first Ignite London. I gave a talk where I performed a poem 'about the kebab that broke my heart' talking about different types of bacteria, how they move, how the motor is assembled, and how enterotoxic E. coli can make us sick. You can see more of me at www.phatmattbaker.com or on twitter @phatmattbaker
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What’s Special About
Bacteria?Matthew Baker
Diarrhea and Dödgy Döners
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A self assembling motor, composed of 45 proteins, that can rotate at up to 40,000 rpm, and switch direction of rotation in 10ms.
Bacteria
• Everywhere: 10 times as many bacterial cells in the gut as there are human cells
ThanksAnimations: Keichi Namba Lab, Osaka Uni
Photos: Brett Tully: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brett-tully/
Doners: Bodrum Kebab, 242 Cowley Road
Sperm:E. Coli: Howard Berg’s Lab, Harvard.http://www.rowland.org/labs/bacteria/
Human Flora:Bajzer, M and Seeley, R.Nature 444, 1009-1010
Different bacteria TEM: Wikicommons
Aaron and Karen: BBCwww.phatmattbaker.com
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