Science Pub: Dr. Bill Van Bonn on the Aquarium Microbiome Project

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Channel: Shedd Aquarium · 2016 · Entertainment

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Dr. Bill Van Bonn, vice president, animal health
The always-engaging Dr. Bill will take you on a photo tour of Shedd’s brand-new aquatic microbial ecology laboratory, where assorted samples are analyzed with a DNA sequencer called Horton and our scientists are discovering myriad microscopic life forms—most of them beneficial and even essential—inhabiting the microbiome that is Shedd.

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