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Classroom Resource
Construct evolutionary trees by sorting seashells. To accompany the lecture series Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines and the Sorting Seashells Click and Learn interactive.
Classroom Resource
A poster from the 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future. It details the importance of foraminifera, known as "forams" for short, in discovering significant changes in Earth's past.
Classroom Resource
A poster from the 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future. It shows the different organisms and metabolic diversity that results in a miniature model called a Winogradsky column.
Classroom Resource
The poster from the 2011 Holiday Lectures on Science, Bones, Stones and Genes: The Origin of Modern Humans. It provides a unique look at the classic "tree of life" and features a timeline of various hominid fossils and their stone tool usage.
Classroom Resource
The poster from the 2010 Holiday Lectures, Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease, illustrating the size, geometry, and different classifications of viruses.
Click & Learn
Explore principles of taxonomy by sorting seashells according to their morphological characteristics and constructing an evolutionary tree.
Interview
An interview with Dr. Michael McIntosh, who discovered the drug Prialt while working as an undergraduate in Dr. Olivera's lab.
Click & Learn
Explore the biology of the symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian Bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria Vibrio fischeri.
Click & Learn
Understand how quorum sensing works by reasoning through experiments involving genetically-engineered bioluminescent bacteria.
Classroom Resource
A text transcript of the 2009 Holiday Lectures on Science, Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines.
Classroom Resource
A chapter list to accompany the DVD.
Video Clips
Corn was originally bred from the teosinte plant by native Mexican farmers. The morphologies of modern-day corn and teosinte plants are compared to illustrate how artificial selection can bring about dramatic changes in plants.
Video Clips
These are some of the animal species Charles Darwin would have seen when he visited the Galapagos Islands.
Video Clips
The identity of the stickleback fish stumps the contestants on the game show.
Lectures
Venomous carniverous cone snails are a rich source of molecules for scientific research and potential drug development.
Lectures
Bacteria are capable of communicating and coordinating their activities with a molecular signaling system called quorum sensing.
Lectures
Cone snails have evolved many different toxins for different uses. Total molecular biodiversity may number in the millions.
Lectures
The quorum sensing system is a target for a new class of drugs that interfere with virulence without killing bacteria.
Lectures
A discussion on biodiversity, endangered habitats, and how best to preserve the Earth's ecosystems, presented by the lecturers along with Dr. E.O. Wilson and Dr. Eric Chivian.
Lectures
In this ten-minute Q&A session, Dr. Olivera answers questions on cone snail behavior, venoms, and biodiversity.
Series
What medical secrets do venomous snails hold? How can listening in on bacterial conversations help develop new antibiotics? In four presentations, Dr. Bonnie L. Bassler and Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera reveal how a deeper understanding of nature and biodiversity informs their research into new...
Video Clips
Charles Runckel, a graduate student in the DeRisi lab, uses the Virochip to examine the mystery of bee colony collapse disorder.
Video Clips
Dr. Olivera demonstrates a live specimen of Conus striatus.
Video Clips
This species of cone snail immobilizes its prey in a split second with lightning-strike cabal toxins.
Video Clips
A fish-hunting cone snail strikes its prey with a venomous harpoon, causes paralysis, and eats it.
