Interview with Professor Michael Sweet Derby University

Professor Michael Sweet discusses his research on coral spawning, coral pathogens, antibiotics and probiotics at his research lab in Derby University
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Professor Mike Sweet
01:48 - Aquatic Research Facility
02:25 - Sea Grass Research
04:47 - Coral Spawning
05:22 - Coral Pathogens
07:08 - Philaster lucinda
08:26 - Spawning tank in the lab
08:51 - Treating corals with microbes
10:47 - Fungal communities in coral
12:04 - Hobby view of the coral disease
12:35 - Biting coral crustacean
14:51 - Discovering new coral pathogens
15:29 - The spawn doth dribble
16:52 - Tough life of a research scientist
17:31 - Multiple spawns from same coral colonies
18:45 - Light pollution effect on wild spawning
19:52 - Every days a school day
21:04 - Coral Care Suncream
23:54 - Bioinnovation
28:18 - Probiotics
29:10 - Derby, not Durham
35:34 - Antibiotics
39:28 - Herpes and crabs in your reef tank!
39:54 - Viruses
41:09 - 6 years to turn reefs around
42:03 - When and why does symbiosis become pathogenic
42:36 - Everybody has ciliates in their tank
45:31 - Brown jelly syndrome
47:39 - The toll of spawning