 I'm Joe, the communications officer for FEMS, and I'm joined today by Professor Miroslav Radman, who is the co-founder of the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, where we are today, and also one of the co-directors of the FEMS summer school for postdocs, which is happening over the next week. So thanks for joining me today. What's your favourite microbe and why? At this point in time, it's dinococcus radiodurans. Okay. Is it so tough? Indestructible, yes, indestructible bacteria. Do you work on it at all here? Yeah, we work quite a bit on that bacteria, trying to understand how something like ionizing radiation cannot kill a million rods of radiation, cannot kill a bacterium that is made of the same kind of proteins and DNA that others. That's a good answer. I haven't had that one yet. And guess my second question then is who's your microbiological hero and why? My biological hero is Sydney Brenner, for the reason that he was a free mind, incredibly imaginative, participated in several key discoveries of classic biology, and last but not least, a great sense of humour. Yeah, okay, which is always good. And then my final question is if you could make everybody in the world understand one piece of microbiological knowledge, what would it be? Everybody in the world, I would use microbes to illustrate evolution as the most successful process probably in the universe. Just life on Earth, as it is, is almost four billion years old. So we have a process based on the principle of evolution that is practically immortal. The products are ephemeral, but the process is so robust that it is practically immortal. Four billion years, right? Yes, exactly. And we know that when life started, when we have last universal common ancestor, that it looked very similar to a bacterium, and it was a single cell organism that reproduced its genetic and therefore functional information, and that's how life started to grow. And eventually became all of us as well, eventually reproducing every human alive today. Which is amazing. Yes, absolutely, that we have an uninterrupted tree of life over four billion years, starting with something like bacterium, and to the people like you and me talking now. Amazing. Right, thanks for taking the time to chat to me today. And good luck in the summer school, it's going to be great fun.