Think Like a Microbe
Allan KonopkaDoes Microbial Ecology have a philosophy? Should it?
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I have been monitoring news on the 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which in early August had more than 4000 cases and 1800 deaths. This makes it the second largest Ebola outbreak with little evidence...
What prompted me to look into AI?
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After writing my last blog post on AI in biology, I explored the utility AI might have for the type of think pieces I do for this blog. As an emeritus professor at Purdue, I found that I could access Google AI Professional Ce...
Ay! Ay! Ay! A.I.
I read Elliot Hershberg’s excellent summary of the 2026 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium in Quantitative Biology: AI in Biology. I must confess that I have mostly ignored AI to this point – I am not competent to distinguish the hype from substa...
Which habitats get selected for research in microbial ecology?
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Prefatory remarks: The opinions arise from the philosophical basis for Think Like a Microbe -- that microbial ecology is best served by research that identifies principles and their underlying mechanisms.
I decided to determ...
On microbial dormancy and resuscitation
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When I was researching material for my Systems Thinking post, I came across W Ford Doolittle’s book Darwinizing Gaia. Doolittle was an early critic of the Gaia hypothesis, on the basis that it viewed Earth as an organism upon...
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