thermophilus lactobacillus plantarum
penicillium roquefort and and take out my
service
these are not insulted maybe someone
recognizes one of these words that I just
to mention if I love knowledge
but what if I say penicillin yogurt
roquefort cheese salami and beer
surely we are all very
familiar with everything with the last
the words that you see here are products
and these are the names of the
microorganisms of which
they get now that they know the miracle
maybe they want to see how health as
The saints look better than they do
heard thousands of millions of cells
the same fungus are forming this
colony that see here the fungus in the
microscope looks like
I present the yeast responsible
of your Friday beer and the
bacterium for which we have a glass of
yogurt every morning when I say
microorganism that is the first thing that
hospital disease comes to mind
society infection do not make mistakes in
most houses but the
microorganisms that make us sick
there are very few compared those who live
in us and protects us rather
human beings are covered by
microorganisms from head to toe
most of them are harmless and
they give us protection they are beings
tiny ones that live in every part of
our body has been estimated that only
hundred percent fewer species are
was infected while thousands are the
that protects us
we are so colonized that the next
once they get on a scale and see their
weight consider that 1.5 kilograms are
the bacteria that are on you
I think that relieves a bit in our
diet
the microbiologists take care of us
we take care of studying
microorganisms that we can not see if the
help from a microscope like bacteria
fungi viruses parasites and algae
the question here is microbiology
can do something more for us
besides beer the answer is a
resounding yes
modern microbiology takes care of
study macro problems to give it what
that I call micro alternatives for
example let’s think about agriculture
everyone knows that it is a pesticide they are
chemicals that are placed on the ground with
the purpose of killing the pests of the
crops
these chemicals are not only very poisonous
on the floor but also the majority
our dishes come through
our food
think about fertilizers too
These are substances substances
nutritious that is placed on the ground
so that the plant grows better without
However, 100 percent is not absorbed
and when it rains the soil is contaminated and
water micro alternatives for example
fungi like this that you see here that so
personal to me I love this area that
come here that lives in the soil they live
the plants and therefore you need that
the plant is alive
then its natural function is the
enemy of pests fulfills the function
of a pesticide or living bacteria
in these nodules that you see here are
small pellets the bacterium takes the
nitrogen from the environment and fixes it
on the ground the plant gives a fountain
nutritious the same as a
fertilizer but all this way
natural
let’s think about public health for a moment
According to UNICEF, one in five children
in Ecuador suffer from chronic malnutrition
micro alternatives for example the
cyanobacteria call spirulina maybe
have heard this name is famous
lately the pirulines a
cyanobacteria that have their cells 70
percent protein can serve as
a nutritional supplement and the un the
declared as the food of the future
since 1970 or the well-known
probiotics such as lactobacilli that
when and when they are in our
intestine help us to take better
nutrients
our food last we think of
pollution
we are all familiar with the
problems that those of the
oil spills on the ground in the
forests in the water
we are also stick polim we are
familiar with the polymers that are
plastics in short that take
hundreds of years to degrade in the
environment
micro alternatives in these plants
corn that you see here are put in their
roots a few mushrooms that are so
versatile than when they meet
the oil accumulated in the soil are
able to eat what he eats and
plants can grow on that soil
this is my thesis work and the
plants as you can see they are growing
in this contaminated soil or this fungus
who see here this area is wonderful
was found in yasuní less
five years and it turns out that this fungus
you eat the polyurethane one of the
tougher plastics created by the
man to this day and this fungus
can eat just like a candy had
this picture in my hands an uncle mine lip
and I was seeing it as what they are or
do not
this is the principle in rock and roll
that the one that produces the Roquefort cheese or
the one that helps us produce the cheese
roquefort
then my uncle saw it with eyes of
artist because he is an architect and
he said this is this is a wonder this
it’s like a piece of art is like a
drawing from that day my uncle made me
think of microorganisms like what
that are part metio turned out that it is not the
only
around the world there are thousands of
artists of microbiologists who are left
night they let motivate by the
microorganisms to create these pieces
of art are captivated by their
colors by their shapes by their sizes
by the way it grows
and believe these wonders as in everything
great art there are those who are very
talented like these who can see
here and we exist the beginners in the
Christmas contest of the university
that was the inspiring principle makes a
year together with a psychologist friend and a
friend administration ministers
Business
we introduce ourselves in a contest called
you judge food prize is the contest
largest international youth
Entrepreneurs call us once a year
and they propose a macro problem to us
this year was how to restore dignity
to the refugees
we responded with a micro
alternative
we think of a company that
produces microorganisms suitable for
human consumption
this knowledge will be taught the
refugee communities so that they
can grow the by themselves for
their self-consumption and for sale
so the microorganisms can be two
things at once a supplement to the diet
and an extra income for their families
we improve our idea as a family
of it that arrived after the earthquake
of 2010 and when they published the list
one of the winners’ lists
time to find my name but here
I’m in one of the longest
we present this idea in the city of
entrepreneurship
san francisco california experience
it was impressive
we learned an amount in that experience and
this made us realize that we have
incredible potential
got three investors who
that was became our
mentors and every day we have
meetings with them to improve our
idea
I know that three great learnings of
your experience the first one you need a
multidisciplinary team
scientists usually tend to have this
tendency to think that they can do
things alone that is not true always
you need a team
we needed people that we
It helps to convey the idea of
communities for that we had sociologists
we need the idea to be
profitable economically sustainable for
that we work with me
counters and what good is a great idea
it looks good
that was the work of our
designers always two minds think
better than a
second the passion
I’m sure that love for bugs
is what took me so far to me and to me
team because we could fall in love with what
what we did because we could fall in love
the people who did not listen to what
of what they can of what they could
listen were bugs that were
saving the world but suddenly I
that passion is what has brought this
this madness and third the potential with
fierce potential to what is important to have
one in an integral formation
the experience made me realize that
Being a scientist does not mean you can not
to be entrepreneur
rather he made me understand that he can use
that scientific knowledge to create
new products
I think this is the blackest point to me
mother because when she knew about the
when I told him four years ago that
I wanted to be a microbiologist if I thought
I was going to eat the shirt the rest of my
lifetime
It is the duty of scientists
ask us why do you know why
science the knowledge have to
stay in the books
the response of the scientific community
it will be a resounding no
what is the use of science if it is not
service of society that if the
science but it frees us the piece is that
yes we see the tracks
we can see it as what is a source
of solutions to human problems
scientists we always have to
have this passion to serve because
but we serve ourselves for nothing
science is a platform for
services to be scientific and to
bet on science not need no
there are limitations there is no time there is no
age and no gender especially the
science for all and it’s important
know that because we understand that
to make a good scientist you have to
keep the inner child alive
we scientists have to play
explore explode ask why
and the why
in short, we scientists have
that playing all the time
the scientists we have to have alive to
our inner principle because to me
I love thinking that the little prince was
a microbe what he knew that what
essential is literally invisible to
eyes
Thank you
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