 Hi, it's Joseph. I'm the communications officer at FEMMS. We're here outside the very amazing Armadillo building in Glasgow in Scotland for FEMMS 2019 We're here to go to get to know the researchers a little bit better. I'm about to go and interview Pascal Kossart FEMMS Loire for Wardwin for 2019 We're going to chat to her as she signs copies of her book and ask her a few particular questions about microbiology in general Here at FEMMS 2019 I have Professor Pascal Kossart from the Institute Pasteur in Paris Who has been signing her book the new microbiology from microbiome to CRISPR So I was going to ask a few questions and again a few insights into her knowledge of microbiology So my first question to you is and I think I already know the answer. What's your favorite microbe and why? My favorite microbe is Listeria because I worked on it since 1986 It's my favorite microbe, but there are many microbes that I like for example I like also Colobacter, I also like Vibrio, I also like Valbacchia So I think there are many many interesting bacteria out there I choose to work on Listeria because it was a pathogen because it was not too pathogenic So that I could work in the lab without too much security but There are other organisms that I am interested So what one piece of microbiological knowledge should every person in the world know? Okay one piece of microbiology that people in the world should know is that there are more microbes which are friends that are enemies There are many many microbes which are absolutely critical for good health for being well So I think a lot of people when they hear the word microbe they think illness They think disease and this is no longer true. We know that we are microbes in fact My final question is who is your microbiological hero out of anyone known alive dead or not and why? My hero is Yersin. Yersin is a guy who was working with the pastor Louis pastor but pastor had this idea that People should go outside France to look for microbes to identify The microbes responsible for disease and Yersin is those scientists would discover the bacterium Responsible for pestis and this is Yersinia pestis which has been discovered by Yersin when he was in Vietnam So I think Yersin was a very interesting phenomenon he was interested for example In geography he was interested in the sociology. He was interested in bringing European habits in extreme Asia and Is somebody who is very interesting? Great, well, thank you Pascal for your time. We now know your favorite microbe and many more We know what everyone else should know about microbiology and we know your favorite microbiology hero So he's going to turn to the book here if you want to know much more about microbiology The new microbiology from microbiome to CRISPR is obviously available in any good bookshop It's a fascinating read and I very much recommend it to you and I hope that you all get to enjoy Not just Femmes 2019 but microbiology in general and perhaps this wonderful book. So thank you you