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Today, Dr. Nicole Geerlings from the University of Vienna in Austria joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss some of the wonderful work she and colleagues have carried out studying the wild, weird, and wonderful world of cable bacteria, which can conduct electricity over microbially enormous distances! Definitely time for #OMG and #WTM!

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Nicole Geerlings

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• Here is a link to the Summer Science Program, a wonderful outreach program for high school juniors.
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