Today Dr. Julie Maresca, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how bacteria can interact with a ubiquitous part of modern life: concrete!
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Julie Maresca
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Links for this episode
- Hartiful, the vendor that makes the enamel pins I often show on the podcast.
- An overview of microbes and the “built environment.”
- An article about how concrete is made.
- A video on how concrete is made.
- The concept of “self repairing” concrete.
- An overview of the microbial limits to life with regard to pH.
- A description of alkalinophilic bacteria.
- Biofilms that form on concrete.
- Difficulties in obtaining DNA from rock.
- An overview of oligotrophic microbes.
- The alkali-silica reaction in concrete.
- Challenges of road salt and concrete.
- An overview of halophilic microbes.
- An overview of xerophilic microbes.
- The concept of SLiME communities.
- The term aeonophiles.
- Is “Roman” concrete self-repairing?
- A company that produces “microbial concrete.”
- An article relevant to today’s discussion by Dr. Maresca and colleagues.
- Dr. Maresca’s faculty website.
- Dr. Maresca’s wonderful and artistic research website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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