Sentences with phrase «university microbial ecologist»

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Researchers «saw the oil at 800 to 1,400 meters depth,» says microbial ecologist Andreas P. Teske of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«Nobody's ever just taken a bunch of soils and said, «Let's see what we have,»» says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado.

In search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditions.

This is what makes the next step «so logical,» according to Maria Gloria Dominguez - Bello, a microbial ecologist at New York University School of Medicine in New York City: seeing whether the microbiome of a baby born by C - section could be shifted immediately after birth.

Gareth Griffith is a microbial ecologist at Aberystwyth University in the UK.

Another possibility is that the toxins are simply a way for a diatom or dinoflagellate to store excess nutrients, such as carbon or nitrogen, rather than a stress response, says microbial ecologist William Cochlan of San Francisco State University.

«There are certain [microbes] we all have, and certain things that are unique to individuals, but we really have no idea where we acquire these in our lifetime,» says James Meadow, the study's lead author and a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

It's too soon to say that the microorganisms found at 16 meters are in fact 2800 years old, since the ice could have melted and refrozen recently, says microbial ecologist Warwick Vincent of the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

Garriet Smith, a marine microbial ecologist at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, says he suspects that the aspergillus arrives as atmospheric fallout, from winds bearing sands of the Sahara.

«This is a powerful study,» says Rachel Adams, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the new research.

The release of those gases from fertilized soils increases at high temperatures due to increased microbial activity, says Darrel Jenerette, an ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved in the new study.

«This happens because the presence of microbial cheaters ultimately reduces the total amount of enzymes produced by the microbial community, while the total amount of microbial biomass stays about the same» explains University of Vienna ecologist and IIASA guest researcher Christina Kaiser, who led the study.

By discovering what kind of life inhabits Antarctic lakes, John Priscu — a microbial ecologist at Montana State University in Bozeman who is analyzing samples from Lake Whillans — hopes to understand what sort of technology will be needed when probes are eventually sent to those frozen moons.

«This is really cool, just from a biological discovery standpoint,» says microbial ecologist Jennifer DeBruyn of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville who was not part of the study.

This transfer of carbon — or energy — up the food web is inefficient, says John Priscu, a microbial ecologist from Montana State University who was part of the team that discovered the Antarctic fish this month.

«It's pretty impressive that they did it on the scale that they did,» adds Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Microbial ecologist Brent Christner of Louisiana State University collected fresh snow from across the globe and tested it for biological particles that could induce ice formation.

Corpses represent a «gold mine» for microbes, says George Kowalchuk, a microbial ecologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who was not involved with the study.

«Once you look at these microbes at the species level, we are all pretty much distinct,» says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Prior to this research, microbial ecologist Lars Peter Nielsen of Aarhus University in Denmark and his colleagues had shown that microbes working in the oxygen - free muck at the bottom of Denmark's Aarhus Bay exchanged electrons over relatively large distances of centimeters, although how the bacteria managed the trick remained unknown.

James Meadow, a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon.

«This is extremely exciting as it provides evidence that a microbial war is ongoing in our body,» says Jack Gilbert, a microbial ecologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

By hosting fewer methane - producing microbes, the GM rice might alter the soil ecosystem in unknown ways, notes microbial ecologist Paul Bodelier of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology at Wageningen University in a commentary.

The morel can spread soil bacteria to new «fields» and cultivate them with fungal secretions that the bacteria consume, says microbial ecologist Pilar Junier of the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

But Brian Lanoil, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, cautions that contamination could still be a problem.

However, the rain was less efficient removing viruses from the atmosphere,» said author and microbial ecologist Isabel Reche from the University of Granada.

Last year microbial ecologist Noah Fierer, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder, sampled bacterial diversity in 98 different soils across North and South America.

Later, as a young microbial ecologist at Stockholm University in Sweden, she started to catalog the microorganisms she collected during soil sampling trips, deciphering their genetic code so she could understand both their internal workings and how they fit into their underground habitat.