Sentences with phrase «for microbial ecologists»

That's difficult for microbial ecologists because only about 1 % of the microbes on Earth have ever been grown in the lab.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.

Bailey is a soil scientist and microbial ecologist who has been actively involved with EMSL as part of its Science Theme Advisory Panel for Geochemistry / Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Science.

Assigning 16S rRNA gene sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) allows microbial ecologists to overcome the inconsistencies and biases within bacterial taxonomy and provides a strategy for clustering similar sequences that do not have representatives in a reference database.