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the giant tube-worm's relationship w/ bacteria is also a very encouraging story.

story goes that Dr Colleen Cavanaugh, who had yet to earn her PhD at that point -- just in her first year as a grad student -- was hearing a lecture that was one of the first ever on Riftia tubeworms. Hearing the presence of sulfur crystals in the worm's guts, she jumped up and proposed that worms fed using chemosynthetic bacteria -- she was told by Dr M Jones: "Sit down, kid. We think it's a detoxifying organ."

but she didn't let that remark from a senior scientist in her field discourage her. She convinced Dr Jones to give her tissue to analyse. & she was right.

I think it's a good quick tale to ward oneself against impostor syndrome, immediately caving to pressure from authorities / experts, doubting one's own ideas, so on.


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whoahhhh  what a nice story!
it looks like she even convinced dr. jones enough such that they wrote the publication together with another guy??
also, the fact that biochemistry and microbiology weren't even in her field, which was formally ecology, which i also find inspiring.

it looks like her Thing ended up being interdisciplinary collaboration, which sounds the coolest

also, the story mentions that bacteria living inside eukaryotic cells often shed their now unnecessary cell walls????
wondering whether that's the case for nitrifying bacteria in plant roots, too??
+ other bacteria that's often mentioned but whose forms i never really thought too much about until now

yay glad u liked the story! & also Yeah, love interdisciplinary collaboration :) all-around a real story that serves as a nice parable/fable.

Cool question abt the nitrifying bacteria, i have no idea, now im wondering that too!