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28 Apr 2025 14:00

Of Humans and Microbes

Aula Mazzariol, 3rd floor, Malcanton Marcorà and online

Of Humans and Microbes
connecting the histories of microbial and macrobial life in the 20th and 21st centuries

Speaker: Claas Kirchhelle, CERMES3 Paris

This is a microbial world. Over the past two decades, genomic methodologies in microbiology and multispecies approaches in the social sciences have explored the aweinspiring antiquity, diversity, and speed of microbial life as well as how human health and industries are shaped by and shape our planetary microbiota. However, integrating stories of humans and microbes in history has proven challenging. While genomic data has been used to rewrite the history of individual pathogens, microbes and critical historiographic investigations of the modern infrastructures used to study them remain rare. This presentation provides an overview of recent research projects on the history of microbial collections, valuation, and (extra-)terrestrial stewardship as well as attempts to monitor the global microbiome via bacteriophages and sentinel organisms. It highlights the value of critical historiography in uncovering path dependencies and blind spots in current biomedical research as well as the value of interdisciplinary collaboration when it comes to developing new ways of conceptualising the microbial commons.

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Guest hosted by the ERC HealthXCross GA n. 949742 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (GA n. 949742 ERC-HealthXCross)

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L'evento si terrà in inglese

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Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, NICHE, ERC HealthXCross

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