Sentences with phrase «environmental microbiologist»
An environmental microbiologist is a scientist who studies microscopic organisms (like bacteria and viruses) that live in different places in the environment, such as soil, water, and air. They investigate how these tiny organisms interact with their surroundings and the impact they have on the environment. Full definition
«There was a bit of a fear it was going to have a major negative effect on soil,» says environmental microbiologist Ronald Turco of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., who led the study.
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Through former National Science Foundation director and environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the scientists have found about a dozen National Academies of Science members to co-sign the letter.
Or as University of Arizona environmental microbiologist Charles Gerba succinctly put it to Wired: «The aisle is where they get ya.»
«The acquired knowledge and skills from this project will contribute to my aspiration of becoming an independent environmental microbiologist,» said Nshimyimana.
Although my background and training was in environmental microbiology, I contacted a lab at the medical school at Washington University that was just starting to use techniques developed by environmental microbiologists to study microbes inhabiting the human intestinal tract.
«We are only starting to tease apart how this all works,» says environmental microbiologist Jack Gilbert, group leader for microbial ecology in the biosciences division at Argonne National Laboratory.
«It's a little bit of a house of cards, because these techniques are all built on one filter made by one manufacturer,» says environmental microbiologist Eric Wommack of the University of Delaware in Newark.
Environmental microbiologist Jed Fuhrman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles calls the situation a «nightmare» adding that his lab paused a 10 - year project of collecting monthly virus samples from the waters between Los Angeles and nearby Catalina Island.
Environmental microbiologist Ann Wilkie at the University of Florida created a dairy farm air freshener — a tank filled with bacteria that feed on cow dung to reduce odor by 90 percent and produce methane to use as an alternative energy source.
«It's similar to the transmission of cold germs on a packed train,» explains environmental microbiologist Dr. Lukas Y. Wick.
Brenneman was the only environmental microbiologist in the Fisheries Biology Department and directed the Limnology and Wastewater Utilization Program, a joint project by HSU and the city of Arcata, California, so she continued with the tasks she felt no one else could take over including mentoring her graduate students.
Environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the former head of the National Science Foundation who chairs the National Academies of Sciences» Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, said that she and fellow committee members are «ecstatic» about McNutt's nomination.
A few years ago, Harry Beller, an environmental microbiologist at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in Emeryville, California, decided to reopen the case.
«This is an important step forward in our understanding of how we share our microbiomes when we interact with other people,» says Jack Gilbert, an environmental microbiologist at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois, who was not involved in the work.
To study viral diversity in the ocean or within soil samples, environmental microbiologists must count how many viruses they find.
«This is really mucky,» says Tringe, an environmental microbiologist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute.
It's a flawed system,» observes Mark Sobsey, an environmental microbiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
«Yellowstone's known for its bison and bald eagles,» says John Spear, an environmental microbiologist at the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, «but it's really a microbial wonderland.»
Real - time data transmission from remotely operated instruments is key in polar regions, where continuous climate data is particularly important and maintaining personnel in the Antarctic through the winter is expensive and hazardous, says Rita Colwell, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and another co-author of the NRC report.
Before her 2000 diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis — a disease that inflames the blood vessels and impairs important organs — the environmental microbiologist sometimes felt that she was valued less for her work than for being the only female Native American in HSU's College of Natural Resources and Sciences.
Curtis Suttle, an environmental microbiologist and senior author of the study in mBio, says scientists previously had never seen a virus use a CRISPR array in this manner.
«Yang and his team are the first to provide detailed chemical evidence of bacterial degradation» of polyethylene, says Kenneth H. Nealson, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Southern California.
- Jack Gilbert, Ph.D., Environmental Microbiologist, Argonne National Laboratories and Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
The implications are far - reaching, says Ken Nealson, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.