Why are some bacteria pathogenic and some are not? How do we differentiate between bacterial species and why should we? What can we learn from comparing bacterial genomes? What is metagenomics?  Chih-Horng Kuo , Associate Research Fellow from the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology in Academia Sinica answers these questions and illustrates how studying the history of bacterial evolution is important for our future. 

Learn more about his research work http://bit.ly/32YIW33

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