Sentences with phrase «enrichment culture»

Bradley is a postdoc in the Department of Earth System Science, working with Dr. Christopher Francis to characterize seasonal dynamics of ammonia - oxidizing Archaea in Monterey Bay and use enrichment cultures of these Archaea to further define their physiology in the laboratory.

Placing the samples in enrichment cultures followed by the PCR testing has proven to be more diagnostically accurate than PCR testing alone.

«We can think of the Vostok drill as a 65 - ton enrichment culture,» says Brent Christner, a microbiologist at Louisiana State University.

«We eventually discovered them in enrichment cultures from the Twentekanaal in The Netherlands that we've had in our lab for years.

Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.