I also collaborate with other researchers who want help to
analyze microbial communities in other type of systems, such as the intestinal flora of various animals.
Demands for faster and more accurate methods to
analyze microbial communities from natural and clinical samples have been increasing in the medical and healthcare industry.
New research will
analyze the microbial communities inside the space station to determine how the communities colonize, adapt and evolve.
One question in
analyzing microbial communities by 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing centers on whether the amplification and sequencing methods result in recovery of sequences in proportion to their representation in the original community [24].
Scientists initially thought that traces of odd DNA found when
analyzing microbial communities were simply artifacts of the DNA sequencing process.
Not exact matches
Professor Rachel Dutton, along with postdoctoral researchers Ben Wolfe and Julie Button, has spent the past several years mapping,
analyzing and otherwise fiddling with the
microbial communities in 160 different kinds of cheese rind.
Jansson and collaborators also want to
analyze how roots and
microbial communities interact to gain a more holistic understanding of any impacts a decrease in methane - producing bacteria may have.
The project will be the first to statistically
analyze anthropological and environmental data alongside genomics data of the
microbial communities of human milk and the corresponding bacteria present in the gastrointestinal tracts of infants.
The objective is to create transforming technologies, explain mechanistic forces, and develop theoretical frameworks to
analyze, predict, and ultimately understand
microbial communities.
Analyzing the isotopic content of RNA can permit substrate tracking through
microbial communities when a labeled substrate is applied.
Analyzing such systems, whether they are on the surface of a catalyst, a
microbial community, or atmospheric aerosols, and understanding their impact requires tools that can accurately identify and quantify hundreds of molecules,» said Dr. Julia Laskin, a PNNL chemist, who has been advancing the frontiers of the Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, nicknamed nano - DESI, for the last 3 years.
Thanks to ever - improving methods to sequence DNA, scientists can now
analyze the genomes of entire
microbial communities, a field known as metagenomics.