‘Seatizen’ science to change the scale of measuring aquatic microbiomes
De Vargas and Lombard (CNRS & SU) will deploy innovative frugal tools in research and sea-worker/user communities along the TREC voyage, toward a cooperative and long-term measure of aquatic biodiversity. ‘Seatizen’ will be trained to use the ‘Planktoscope’ and ‘Lamprey’ systems, and generate consistent quantitative imaging and molecular data across ecologically and economically relevant regions, integrated into global databases. (BIOcean5D)
HealthXCross: An Anthropology of Biosciences
Microbiome science reveals how microbes connect human and environmental health, blurring the boundaries between bodies and their surroundings. The ERC project HealthXCross at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, led by Roberta Raffaetà is an ethnographic study examining how interdisciplinary scientific platforms using microbial data across time, space, and species are reshaping health concepts. The project investigates how approaching environments as bodies—and vice versa—transforms: biological diversity understanding, innovation across regions, and health governance.