How to Name a Microbe
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- There’s a story behind every microbe’s name, and that of the Phacus smulkowskianus is surprisingly sweet.
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One additional information; when I asked to Professor Bozena how she got interested in microbes, she told me a story, which I found fascinating. In her high school, they had microscopes, and she was so fascinated by the beauty of the microorganisms in her biology classes. And she wanted to pursue this passion, but at that times it was extremely hard to get into the university if your parents weren’t connected to the communist party, but she wanted this so much she came up with an plan, she went to the National Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and told them she wants to work on microorganisms, and a scientist from there gave her a Paramecium culture. She wanted to see how the Paramecium respond to some chemicals, and they gave her some chemicals too! She did some experiments on Paramecium at home and wrote down her observations and submitted it to the National Biology Olympics, and she won. After that, of course, she got accepted into biology studies!
She is 35 years older than me but we have so much in common when it comes to microorganisms and microscopy. Every time I go to her with a bunch of interesting videos, new findings, and some DIY microscope upgrades, she says "you are a crazy boy" and honestly, I feel so happy when she calls me crazy 😂.
I am so happy we made this episode! Thank you so much for watching!
- James
She knew what she wanted to do, and she pushed for it. Respect. 👏
His Lensness has spoken!
On an intersting historical tidbit related to micobiology too.
Very interesting story! I'm a Biological Oceanographer, sadly not working on my career, but I was a student at the University in 1986, and I can relate the struggling to obtain information to wrote our papers, etc. I received a small microscope at 6 years old, and then I loved science forever. Keep your amazing work!
Luisa Parodi, your career sounds so interesting, mind informing me about what you love about it and what fascinates you the most. I’m only a highschool student and looking into different careers for the future.
@@sup8668 The best way to choose is to visit the webpages of the Universitys from you can choose near your home, or as far as you can go and live, and then schedule a visit to the departments and talk to the professors if it is allowed. Good luck!
Asked for this episode on Patreon. Thanks a lot for delivering!
It’s awesome to hear the human stories behind the microbes we enjoy!
Dio: Do you remember how many breads you have eaten in your life?
Prof. Bozena: Hold my papers
6:31 It should be noted that "name a atar" services are not recognized by any professional astronomers. All they do is write down the name and location in their own publications. It will not be acknowledged by any actual space organization.
SPLENDID Video, @Journey to the Microcosmos
as always loved the video, but I found the commentary on this one wonderful, A well spoken shout out to a researcher and researchers in general that is well deserved.
How about a video about streptomyces? I mean they won 2 nobelprizes and are responsible for the majority of our antibiotics❤️
Perfect! Time to discover some little Titans! 💎
Yay I'm early. It's nice to know Hank does breathe.
Can someone tell me few common steps following which I can pursue this job ?
I see a microbe.
I call it Jeff.
Oooooo, funky music
nice
thank you
So cool
Where can I get the music for this show????
It's by Andrew Huang. There's access to his full tracks on the longer videos you get as a perk by supporting the channel on Patreon.
4:47 oh my God stentor curious is so massive but so small. I guess size is relative
Letters.....HAHA ive licked a few stamps in my day
Can you make a fungoid research vid i love shrooms
mi Journey to the Microcosmos
*co*
And then there's geneticists, who named important proteins "Sonic hedgehog" and "Pikachurin"
And then you have herpetologists, who named a genus of tiny frogs _Mini_ , of which there are three species: _Mini mum_ _Mini ature_ and _Mini scule_ . I'm not joking; these are taxa that actually exist.
@@pigeonfowl474 Absolutely wonderful
Jacob Furrow while the corkscrew bacteria is just bashing your keyboard
And then there's marine biologists with fishes named "earless assfish" and "obese dragonfish"
And then there's botanists with plants like _Amorphophallus titanum_ , literally meaning "misshapen giant penis".
I really liked the yeast vid and I figured that it would be very cool if you made a video on the microbes on yogurt. Keep up the good work.
I like that idea!
-James
Some of us use those yogurt-associated bacteria in collaboration with the yeast to make sour beers!
I went to the local river to paddle my kayak. As I drew my feet in, wet and sandy I wondered if I had tardigrades between my toes. See what you've done. Thanks
Note the description in Latin at 5:52! This was compulsory until 2012!!
I did notice! Fascinating.
Oof.
Nowadays (under the nomenclature code for botany), also English is admitted. Nevertheless, since the official description of basically everything is in Latin, as well as so many books, you have to have at least rudimentary knowledge of the language to work in certain areas of systematic biology
*To all my fellow microbes, no matter what the giant hairless space monkeys name us, we shall never reveal to them our true names! **_Such as King Wheel Bearing Rotaional Flagellatus Maximus the III._** Which may or may not be the name of a certain Rotifer I may or may not know. Eh, don't ask!*
You can't fool me, Bob.
@@philtkaswahl2124 Shhhhh!
King Wheel Bearing Rotaional Flagellatus Maximus the IV was eaten by a certain stentor
How to name a microbe:
8:47- The one on the left is George.
I didn't get your joke but I courteously laughed out loud.
That's how Zefrank names his microbes.
No it isn't I found it first and it's called John
The one next to it is Jack
I just started my freshman year in Microbiology today!! Greetings from Peru !!!
Amazing! Good luck!!
love how the opening bit talks about james being "out and about on one of his sampling trips" over music made by andrew huang
*Remember, no matter what name designation you were given at the beginning of your cell cycle, you will always be special in the world of the microcosmos.* 💚
That makes me smile :)
❤
A microbiologist said to his wife: "Honey! You'll love my anniversary gift to you!"
"Oh! What is it?"
"I named a new pathogen after you!"
Now I can name microbes better than I can name babies
@Stando pawah Za Warudo gives you more time to remember
A bunch of Karen's can help you with naming babies! Do you want Kayleigh or Cisylee?
I love the tardigrade's name. I like it when names mean something that relates to the animal, but I can see why scientists would name microbes they discover after themselves. I learned a bit about this when I made my new video on tardigrades (please check it out, selfish plug). 😂😁
Wholly applicable quote:
"The naming of names is a difficult matter"
The only thing missing is a picture of Professor Bożena Zakryś. Is there some reason you didn't show her to give her more recognition?
I was recently diagnosed with panic disorder and your videos bring me so much peace! Please never stop 😁
Yep... but Euglenoids are not named according to the bacteriological code! They are traditionally considered algae and their nomenclature is governed by the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants (formerly International Code of Botanical Nomenclature)! :)
We are definitely not claiming that the euglenids named according to the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, we are referencing it to show how complicated are the rule books for naming microbes.
-James
I have to say, phacus smulkowskianus is an especially cool-looking little dude.
Thank you for sharing this story - it was very touching. Beautiful microbes, too!
Finally a proper Polish pronunciation in an English video! Thank you, Hank! Thank you for pronouncing that Polish name correctly.
Woah! James lives in my city (Warsaw)! awesome! :D greetings from Poland!
I had to wait until the end to like it because the view was so beautiful
even tho im not watching it yet, I'm leaving a like early so i don't forget when i do watch it during supper today
When's the next pin coming out?
Thank you for the story behind this cute little Microbe and a look into how science handles new discoveries! It's amazing how fate works sometimes in adding an unexpected personal connection.
I wonder what possibly James was doing in Poland.
and in Warsaw specifically, I always hated this big, stinky city where did he found water samples there :P ?
Anyway my love to this channel just grew even more. James trully is master of microscope and Hank? I loved the guy years before 'Journey' but he trully impressed me now, with his spot on pronunciation of really hard Polish names.
I swear if I got to name a species of even a microscopic little organism I'd be over the moon about it. There's gotta be at least a small sense of satisfaction even when it's part of your job, but the people who do these jobs are often too humble to even think about it like that, and I respect it. :)
Those services that "let you" name stars are bogus. Multiple stars given multiple different names to different people. All it means, at best, is that they'll put your name next to a star in a star dictionary they publish, which is not an "official" book. So astronomers won't actually reference those books and use your name for it. Like I said at best your name will be in 1 page of 1 boring book that nobody ever reads or references. Don't waste your money on any of those people who sell star or planet or asteroid names or "1 square foot of the moon" or whatever.
Every microorganism should start with "McFloaty".
wish you guys would cover the various mosses and liverworts, fern reproductive cycles. i would love to see this: ''Some mosses have cups on their tops that produce sperm, these are male plants. The female counterpart has eggs between her overlapping leaves. Water is a necessity for fertilization; as the sperm become mature they have to swim to the eggs to fertilize them.''
You know it's going to be an _especially good_ episode of JttM when THIS music kicks in.
Reminds me of the Vsauce episode of the speed of ignorance ua-cam.com/video/JTvcpdfGUtQ/v-deo.html where the more things we discover the greater the mass of what we are ignorant about grows. The quote from it: "as our circle of knowledge expands so does the circumference
of darkness surrounding it." 10:33 In fact, this channel reminds me of Vsauce in a few ways.
I can't wait for the announcement of the discovery of phacus musclehankus
Ah yes. Nothing like the smell of Polish discoveries in the morning.
I feel like this channel could/should get something named after it. Phacus Microcosma
I wonder how revolutionary scientists like Newton or Aristotle might consider their discoveries. Would they treat it as important as they turned out to be, or did they just assume it was as nature should be and think if it as a fact of life? Do they consider their greatest works, whatever they consider to be so, their own, or just a new step in a long process?
My favorite microbe name is choanoflagellates as it links them to a part of their spongy descendants; choanocytes.
We showed a clip about them recently, and more will come in the 3rd season. :)
ua-cam.com/video/SfMwNBwIzQo/v-deo.html
-James
One of my favorites is Strigiphilus garylarsoni, a species of chewing lice, named in honor of the Far Side cartoonist.
Can you make a video on how to culture different microbes?
these videos are intriguing, yet calming at the same time. i love it
Only a few years ago the only documentaries we could see were those hyperdramatic stories of lions eating zebras that were duplicated again and again. Now scientists themselves can reach out to the audience and tell stuff that any TV channel would have never considered to be interesting to the viewers.
Thanks for doing these videos!
Man I've never heard a song more fitting with a subject matter.
Like I hear that beat and immediately picture some germs just vibing. Some Toejam and Earl shit.
I love this channel.. always fascinating videos 😊❤
Can you talk about microbes thst only live in pets
I name my own constellations in the NightSkies.
Why not just name them "Carl" and leave it be?
i love this channel, and your voice is so relaxing!
There are plenty of unusual, odd & utterly bizarre names for things that pop up in various (predominantly biological) sciences.
Some of my favorites include:
• A human protein called *SonicHedgehog.*
• The spiked tail of a Stegosaurus is called a *Thagomizer* (thanks to a Far Side comic).
• Two Enzymes called *Flipase* & *Flopase.*
• *Spongiforma squarepantsii* , a Fungus named after guess who...
• An alcohol called *Fucitol* that's derived from a type of North Atlantic seaweed (& presumably what you'd want to do if you ever tasted the stuff).
There are also thousands of organisms named after famous & fictional people, animals & places.
Cool examples!
Kinda shows what a bad ass Archimedes was, his screw mimics the shape of the Phacus Smulkowskianus, but he had no way of knowing. Incidental biomimicry shows he was tied into some very fundamental forces.
Just saw a Tom Scott video about the Archimedes 2 and was fascinated!
I wonder what lives in the liquid around and over my eyes. I'm sure i've seen stuff float by.
They are actually called "floaters"
They are inside your eye, and aren't alive. (Usually not alive.)
The floaters are not microorganisms, they are actually caused by the proteins that clump inside the fluid in the eyeballs.
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/eye-floaters/symptoms-causes/syc-20372346
-James
A TED-Ed video that explains this:
ua-cam.com/video/Y6e_m9iq-4Q/v-deo.html
@@JamsGerms While floaters etc. are not alive, are there microorganisms in the water around your eyes, ones that you can't see without a microscope?
Although it’s not single-celled, my favorite animal’s nomenclature is Glareola pratincola ‘Collared Pratincole.’ I don’t know why, it’s just stuck with me for years
I would welcome some interviews with people like this.
Like Numberphile does sometimes.
Yes please! I would too!
I found my first flat worm
..There's a sponge genus named "Spongiforma squarepantsii".
Just a friendly reminder sometimes naming things can be weird.
Just don't call one Poindexter. They'll get bullied mercilessly.
- Damn! masta u're amazing, you actualy named a microbe!
- Its not so complicated, only needed to find one write thosand of leters wait for a year, then make a book of it Its not so amazing I tell you, I've done it several times
- now you're just bragging... :c
I always forget how well is the JttM scripts made
Whenever the video goes full circle i get :0
Amazing work on literally everyone's part
The naming of stars is very systematic and governed by the IAU. Older characterization remain in place alongside the IAU nomenclature.
Doesn't make sense. If Bożena Zakryś was trying to figure out if this organism had already been named why didn't she just play all the Journey to the Microcosmos videos? Sooner or later she would have found this video and know what to call the critter. Heck as a bonus she'd even find out that the critter was discovered and named by Bożena Zakryś. That would have saved her a lot of time and confirmed she was on the right track!
I'm getting the impression that too few scientist come to this UA-cam channel to find out what they've done in the science of little critters. Scientists aren't practical people.
Just here to drop my like before even watching the video.
YAY! TAXONOMY!
I Love your channel
How beautiful, having discovery be part of your daily life ❤️
Can you PLEASE tell me what microscope camera you are using to capture this footage?
Love these💚🔬
having ones name becoming part of a species name like in 'Phacus smulkowskianus' is the biologist route to immortality. having an organism named after oneself is a great honour, well done Prof Zakrys. hope you get your name immortalised like this as well or maybe you already have?
Instructions unclear; am now banned from Babylonian smitheries.
Thank you ,nice to know👍🙏
IF there is a God then they did not ask me what I wanted to be whenever I was created because I would have said one of these green corkscrew twisty things that are microscopic because those things are f****** amazing like as soon as I saw that I was like that's what I would have wanted to be if I could have chosen what I was.
Answer always used to be koala since they sleep a majority of the time and eat toxic things so no one really wants to eat them. Although now my answer is one of these green corkscrew microscopic thingies cuz that just looks so cool.
Naming microbes how complicated and beautiful
Phew.. that book of nomenclature sounds horrific 😮 props to you microbionerds out there!
What kind of microscope do you guys use? I bought one from Amscope but it doesn’t come out this clear or this magnified.
That music really fucks up the ASMR vibes that make this channel so great
What a weird time to upload a video. I think Hank is experimenting how the time of upload affects initial viewership
6:32 Play It's So if I renamed K2 18 to meow does that mean that K2 18b would be renamed to meow b somebody with more more knowledge naming stars please tell me
Hmm i am little bit higher than Poland it means i can find something new in pond? 1986 only 34 years
There are un-named species around me, but I dont know where to look first or why personally.
My mentor found a new species of butterfly and named it after himself. Lol.
How does this video only have 60,000 views? The hell is wrong with people?
Imagine how many of these names will be renamed in the future because of the person's perceived racism.
Swirly thing is I know you said the name but I cannot yeah back to the point and they are now my favorite person on the planet