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Inspired by Nature: Toward

Paul Alan Cox | Institute for Ethnomedicine | Jackson

ds a Sustainable Future

Hole, Wyoming

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Climate Chaange in 2050

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Climate Chaange in 2100

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Climate Chaange in 2150

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Makatea Island, FFrench Polynesia

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Læsø Island, Denmaark: seagrass thatch

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S th t hSeagrass thatchh l t 300h lasts 300 years

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S i l tiSeagrass insulatio C i H llon: Carnegie Hall

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Oil spills: is thhere a solution?

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Alcanivorax borkumensis :: oil-eating bacteria

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Data storage: increaasing need for power

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DNA: Ultimatee Data Storage

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DNA: Ultimatte data storage

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Yellowstone National Park: Taq Polymerase

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93 Nobel Prize93 Nobel Prize

Yellowstone National Park: Taq Polymerase

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Velcro: Annual ssales $177 million

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Green Fluoreescent Protein

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Green Fluorescen

oger Tsien lab, 2006

nt Protein

Roger TsienNobel Prize,2008

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Green Fluoreescent Protein

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Green Fluoreescent Protein

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What can a lizard teach us about medicine?

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Gila Monster Saliva: $700 million per year

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Gila Monster Saliva: $700 million per year

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Cyanobacteria & Motor Neuron Disease

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Yellowstone National Park: cyanobacterial mats

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Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic

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BMAA misincorpporates for Serine

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L- Serine as a candidate drugg for motor neuron disease?

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FDA- approved cliniccal trials have begun.

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Linnaeus thought all answeers may be found in nature.

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Perhaps he was right.

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Dr. James Metcalf Dr. Sandra Banack

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Inspired by Nature: Toward

Paul Alan Cox | Institute for Ethnomedicine | Jackson

ds a Sustainable Future

Hole, Wyoming