Episode
Bioluminescent Symbiosis with Margaret McFall-Ngai
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- The Deep-Sea Podcast
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- Nov 7, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 4254
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Summary
We speak with Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai, an animal physiologist and biochemist about her work with the Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) and its partner, the luminous bacterium Vibrio fischeri. McFall-Ngai provides a great synopsis of how this stable beneficial relationship not only creates light, and supports the bobtail maturation, but can also help us understand what could be going on in the light organs of deep-sea animals.