At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks
at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.
Not exact matches
The natural world functions best with a rich
diversity of species, both
at human scale and in the
microbial universe.
However, the connection between the chemical
diversity of soil and
microbial diversity is poorly understood,» said Trent Northen, a senior scientist
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for
Microbial Diversity and Evolution
at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
«Our study suggests that the disease process and antibiotic treatment could have a far greater impact on intestinal
microbial diversity than surgical intervention,» said Minna Wieck, MD, an investigator and surgical resident
at CHLA and first author on the study.
To better understand the
microbial diversity of these environments, researchers from the University of Manitoba isolated AAP strains from soil samples
at four different sites within the Central Gold Mine tailings.
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.
Multi-locus and long amplicon sequencing approach to study
microbial diversity at species level using the MinION ™ portable nanopore sequencer
Ernakovich JG, Wallenstein MD (2015) Permafrost
microbial community traits and functional
diversity indicate low activity
at in situ thaw temperatures.