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Inspired by Nature: Toward

Paul Alan Cox | Institute for Ethnomedicine | Jackson

ds a Sustainable Future

Hole, Wyoming

Climate Chaange in 2050

Climate Chaange in 2100

Climate Chaange in 2150

Makatea Island, FFrench Polynesia

Læsø Island, Denmaark: seagrass thatch

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

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

Oil spills: is thhere a solution?

Alcanivorax borkumensis :: oil-eating bacteria

Data storage: increaasing need for power

DNA: Ultimatee Data Storage

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DNA: Ultimatte data storage

Yellowstone National Park: Taq Polymerase

93 Nobel Prize93 Nobel Prize

Yellowstone National Park: Taq Polymerase

Velcro: Annual ssales $177 million

Green Fluoreescent Protein

Green Fluorescen

oger Tsien lab, 2006

nt Protein

Roger TsienNobel Prize,2008

Green Fluoreescent Protein

Green Fluoreescent Protein

What can a lizard teach us about medicine?

Gila Monster Saliva: $700 million per year

Gila Monster Saliva: $700 million per year

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Cyanobacteria & Motor Neuron Disease

Yellowstone National Park: cyanobacterial mats

Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic

BMAA misincorpporates for Serine

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

FDA- approved cliniccal trials have begun.

Linnaeus thought all answeers may be found in nature.

Perhaps he was right.

Dr. James Metcalf Dr. Sandra Banack

Inspired by Nature: Toward

Paul Alan Cox | Institute for Ethnomedicine | Jackson

ds a Sustainable Future

Hole, Wyoming