My first question is, like, why work on this at all? And, you know, what do you wanna see happen in 20 years? Like, what is the end goal of, of hyperspectral biology?

So what we developed, what we call hyperspectral reporters, right, which is a part of hyperspectral biology, which first I should give you credit, I think, from, for coining this term, this beautiful term, hyperspectral biology, which I think captures the field in a much better way.

These are small molecule microbes that we can see from afar.

And what we could do with it, you ask? A lot of different things.

First of all, we can just track them, right? We could start looking at ecological questions, how microbes move around, how th- they disperse.

But, um, the application that we're most excited about is using these microbes as biosensors.

Biosensors are living organisms that you could put in situ in the environment, right? Whichever environment you want.

Okay.