Sentences with phrase «marine microbiologist»

«This work is changing our idea of what a species is and how it might form,» said Nicole Webster, a marine microbiologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

Pedler, a marine biology graduate student at Scripps, spent several years working with Scripps marine microbiologist Azam and chemical oceanographer Aluwihare in designing a system that would precisely measure carbon consumption by individual bacterial species.

Marine microbiologist Andreas Teske of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was not surprised that the first multicellular subsurface organism was a nematode; the worms are among the hardiest creatures on the planet.

Next Wave's UK Editor, Kirstie Urquhart, reports on successful marine microbiologist Andrew Mearns Spragg, who is now fishing for pharmaceuticals with support of a Royal Society of Edinburgh fellowship to get his company, AquaPharm Technologies Ltd, off the ground.

Marine microbiologist Jody Deming of the University of Washington, Seattle, and her team collected sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, in March 1999 and again last month — the coldest part of the winter there.

But such microbes «are not effective for the most part,» says marine microbiologist Jay Grimes of the University of Southern Mississippi.

The bacteria - like microbes known as Archaea represent one example of research surprising to marine microbiologists.

Not exact matches

In raising the first germ - free zebrafish, the team has produced «extremely powerful tools for examining the influence of beneficial bacteria on animal development,» says microbiologist Margaret McFall - Hgai of Kewalo Marine Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii.

To determine if the so - called vent glow can sustain photosynthetic life, Cindy Van Dover, a marine biologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, formed a research team that included Thomas Beatty, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Robert Blankenship, a biochemist at Arizona State University in Tempe, and others.

Among them are mechanical engineers, microbiologists, environmental chemists and marine ecologists, as well as immunologists and scientists engaged in fighting tropical and infectious diseases.

Dr. Anton Post is a microbiologist who specializes in the molecular ecology of marine microorganisms with a focus on abundant cyanobacterial species.

For instance, marine biologists» key research focus is the sea life while microbiologists» research thrust is the study of microorganisms.