Tuesday, November 29, 2011 

Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.

The Microbial Sea:  Single-Cell Organisms Dominate  

Mitchell Sogin, senior scientist and director, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory

The Census of Marine Microbes, a collaboration between 50 research laboratories working in study sites distributed throughout the world's oceans, has revealed spectacular levels of single cell microbial diversity, including some very uncommon groups of microbes that constitute the “rare biosphere”.  More information.