Episode 13: Who are the ocean fun-guys? with marine mycologist Cordelia Roberts
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Marine mycology - have you heard of it? Also known as, the branch of biology concerned with the study of marine fungi. Today’s podcast guest, Cordelia Roberts, is a PhD candidate studying the interaction of the understudied marine fungi, with marine snow particles in both open and coastal oceans and even polar seas! And she’s here today to encourage women and girls to get into and pioneer the novel research area of marine mycology, and to show the rest of the world that being a marine biologist isn’t just about splashing about with dolphins and turtles. On this episode, we’ll be chatting through her paper, titled: Chytrid fungi shape bacterial communities on model particulate organic matter and before you click off before it sounds too complex, Cordelia does a fantastic job of breaking down exactly what this means and why this is such a cool field of research.
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