Jiri Hulcr



Jiri Hulcr

Jiri Hulcr is Assistant Professor at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida. He studies symbioses: highly-coevolved biological systems where members are dependent on each other.

Hulcr’s work focuses on symbioses between organisms big and small: between fungi and insects that farm those fungi, between fungi and bacteria that live inside those fungi, and between bacteria and people who are mostly oblivious to the importance of bacteria in our bodily functions. He finds the diversity and ecological success of these symbioses a wonderful testimony to the enormous creative power of biological evolution.

Hulcr earned two doctorates in entomology, from Michigan State University and from the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic. He also did postdocs in biology and in bacteriology, where he began studying the amazing world of belly button biomes.

Talks

Jiri Hulcr - The Worlds That Live On Us

Jiri Hulcr discusses the critters that live on us and that we need to get connect with what is living...