Strobel, often accompanied by his wife, Susan, has hunted fungi in at least two dozen jungles.
Microbiologist Gary Strobel has ventured deep into nearly every big rain forest on earth.
Strobel cautions that fermenting fungus into huge vats of cheap biodiesel is still years away.
Strobel claims this gas mixture, harmless to humans, is one of the most potent antibiotics discovered.
Strobel wondered if any of his collection of endophytes could withstand M. albus' onslaught.
Strobel is still struggling with the challenge of condensing these fumes into liquid fuel.
Strobel's far-fetched theory: Maybe fungi like these aided in creating the crude oil found in the ground.
Mycodiesel caught the imagination of Strobel's son Scott, who suggested they work together for the first time.
It wasn't until 2007 that Strobel discovered that the fungus emitted a remarkable mixture of volatile gases.
That Strobel discovered G. roseum at all is a testament to a career's worth of insight, and serendipity.
"In time we will figure out how to ferment it faster, " says Strobel.
Strobel hopes it will someday be made into an antifungal throat lozenge and a cream to combat yeast infections.
Like Lee Strobel and many others, McCrary sees the release of the film as something of a teachable moment.
In 1997 Strobel filled a box with petri dish cultures of endophytes collected on a tromp through a Honduran jungle.
Over three decades Strobel, 70, has licensed more than 20 specimens to the likes of Eli Lilly, Chevron and Dow Chemical.
"My dad, he's kind of like a prospector, " says Scott Strobel.
Strobel hopes the researchers can engineer better performance from the fungus.
Montana State turned them down, choosing instead to develop mycodiesel through a joint venture with Yale University, where Strobel's son Scott is chairman of the biophysics department.
Mr. LEE STROBEL (Author, Exploring The Da Vinci Code): I think a lot of Christians have realized that the boycotting and picketing approach really isn't very productive.
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Strobel envisions making mycodiesel the way ethanol is made, by implanting the improved dieselmaking genes from the fungus into yeast and then feeding it corn or other plant sugars.
In 1987 Strobel injected the bacteria into a dozen young elms on the Montana State campus. epa lawyers immediately threatened him with fines and prison for releasing an unapproved pesticide.
Mr. STROBEL: I think we end up looking like people who are afraid to face something or people who criticize something, even though they haven't seen it or read it themselves.
Strobel scours the jungles for specialized bacteria and fungi.
Strobel says ethanol plants could be retrofitted to generate the mycodiesel, which would be a lot easier to transport than ethanol (which corrodes pipelines) and would be more easily blended with petroleum-distilled motor fuels.
The teachers developed their own iBooks and lesson plans around literary classics like MacBeth, according to Mark Strobel, director of marketing for Providence eLearning, a spinoff of the school that is marketing the iBooks to other schools.
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