Craig Oberg - "How Microbes Rule the World"

Weber State University microbiology professor Craig Oberg presents "A Pocket Full of Rocks or How Microbes Rule the World," Feb. 22, 2010 as part of WSU's Last Lecture Series. Unseen but omnipotent, microorganisms control human behavior, human history, and Earths biology. Microbes are in involved in everything from diarrhea to Romes demise to Yellowstone National Park. Extremophiles and narwhales, H1N1 and sex, pond mud and brine flies, Legionnaires disease and Mt. St. Helens, even invasion of the body snatchers will be included in an eclectic examination of the microbial worlds power. Oberg will share observations on microbes curious domain, based on his thirty years of picking up rocks. The presentation, presented by the WSU Alumni Association and Weber Historical Society.