Sentences with phrase «microbial communities as»

Didi Pershouse is the author of The Ecology of Care: medicine, agriculture, money, and the quiet power of human and microbial communities as well as Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function.

Biofuels Digest covered the recent study released by JBEI demonstrates the importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be used to convert plants to biofuels.

«This research ties very well into looking at and understanding microbial communities as a whole,» he added.

These tools will enable new, experimental approaches for studying animal - associated microbial communities as ecosystems of interacting colonized hosts, and colonizing microbes.

«In addition, they increase the efficiency with which the microbial community as a whole uses its resources.

Using the oral microbial community as a model system, we are applying functional genomic approaches including Stable Isotope Probing (SIP), metatrascriptomics and directed single cell genomic approaches to enable us to overcome this limitation.

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The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.

It is thought that the initial microbial exposure is important in defining the successional trajectories leading to more complex and stable adult ecosystems (10, 22), and additionally, initial communities may serve as a direct source of protective or pathogenic bacteria very early in life.

I could imagine a microbial community in which diethyl ether is made as a waste product and exploited by dragons to breathe fire.»

A new study shows that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies — known as the human microbiome — have the potential to uniquely identify individuals, much like a fingerprint.

Microbial communities in navels have much the same make - up as those behind the knees.

Two healthy Americans» microbial communities can differ by as much as 90 percent, but an individual's distinctive ensemble of bugs tends to stay stable over many years.

«Also by studying how the gut microbiota usually recover after cholera, we gain new ideas about how to manage severely disturbed microbial communities, ideas that can be used to protect against diseases that often follow such disturbance, such as infections that commonly follow antibiotic use.»

Researchers noticed this pattern after sampling the microbial communities found in the saliva, skin and feces of 37 Komodo dragons across 12 U.S. zoos as well as the environment of two of the 12 enclosures.

It should include, as a matter of priority, endangered soil habitats and soil types, where the most diverse microbial communities are to be found.

«As we start to look deeply into these other microbial communities in and on the body and see their importance, I think people will realize that there's more to microbiome research than the gut,» Kwon says.

Mothers known as «non-secretors» have a non-functional fucosyltransferase 2 (FUT2) gene, which alters the composition of their breast milk sugars and changes how the microbial community, or microbiota, of their infants» guts develop.

A new Journal of Internal Medicine article proposes that artificial intelligence tools, such as machine learning algorithms, have the potential for building predictive models for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases linked to imbalances in gut microbial communities, or microbiota.

This week, a consortium involving 200 investigators from a variety of disciplines describes more than a dozen microscopic communities as part of the most thorough look ever at the microbial world on and within us.

This week, investigators from a variety of disciplines describe more than a dozen microscopic communities as part of the most thorough look ever at the microbial world on and within us.

The open source software package the researchers have designed, known as Microbial Dynamical Systems INference Engine (MDSINE), uses advanced machine learning technologies to accurately predict how microbial communities in the gut will grow and interact oMicrobial Dynamical Systems INference Engine (MDSINE), uses advanced machine learning technologies to accurately predict how microbial communities in the gut will grow and interact omicrobial communities in the gut will grow and interact over time.

Lake ice microbial communities, called LIMCOs as a counterpart to the already well described sea ice microbial communities (SIMCOs), are highly active and live within alternating layers of slush and white ice.

While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.

Using fruit flies, Fiumera looks at the effects of nanoparticles on development, physiology and biochemical composition, as well as the microbial community in the GI tract of the fly.

Besides monitoring of biochemical quantities, the microbial community is investigated as well.

As such, valuable insights can be gained from insects and their often simple and experimentally tractable microbial communities.

Taking an ecological approach that considers the influence of anatomical and physiological features of the human host as well as the microorganisms» impact on both healthy and impaired individuals, the author surveys microbial communities that inhabit healthy humans.

However, it's not clear if the ice is simply acting as a preservative, and keeping the same microbes intact until they're given a warm meal, or if an active microbial community is plodding along inside the ice sheet.

The team is now working on characterizing the microbial community of naturally occurring E. coli and Enterococci, using Hawaii with its warm waters as a testing ground.

«What we've done since then is develop a reference library of the microbial communities that occur in different types of poop — we have cows, horses, raccoons, humans, different types of birds, pigs, sea lions, and other animals, as well as sewage and septage.

«I view the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge as a catalyst, a program that brings new approaches and new people into the field to rapidly increase our understanding of microbial communities» functions and mechanisms,» said Tim Donohue, Past President, ASM.

In addition, the results of the current study can serve as a foundational dataset and resource for future investigations to understand interactions among microbial communities, particularly those important to human health and the environment.

As she suspected, Jansson found substantial differences among the microbial communities at these locations.

This interface impacts areas as diverse as prolonging lithium - ion battery life, designing catalytic reactions that can convert biomass to biofuels, and extracellular electron transfer in microbial communities where bacteria catalyze electrode surfaces and shuttle electrons externally, as in a microbial fuel cell.

The eventual goal is to predict how microbial communities will react to environmental conditions such as droughts and to manage these communities to improve the yields, nutritional content or the carbon storing capacity of plants, for example.

As researchers begin to understand what constitutes a healthy microbiome, they are also learning how imbalances in microbial communities can cause disease — and how to restore the balance as a means of treatmenAs researchers begin to understand what constitutes a healthy microbiome, they are also learning how imbalances in microbial communities can cause disease — and how to restore the balance as a means of treatmenas a means of treatment.

This indicates to Brodie that as they establish the microbial community within the rhizosphere, plants could be exuding metabolites like phenolic acids to help them control the types of microbes thriving around their roots.

«The deep - sea microbial communities in the Mediterranean fix as much or even more carbon dioxide each year as those in the surface layers,» says Yakimov.

Nature Reviews Microbiology defines metagenomics as â $ œgenomic analysis of microbial DNA that is extracted directly from communities in environmental samples.â $

Because they can now follow transient species formed as a result of electron transfer among communities in real time, Yu and her team are using this approach to study how microbial communities communicate with one another.

Two very interesting approaches driven by new insights into the microbiome as a whole involve mimicking or modifying these microbial communities, either by using bugs themselves as drugs, or by developing traditional therapeutics that reproduce the function of the microbiome.

«[Norman] used the RNA not as an object of study in and of itself but as a way of reading out the microbial community.

The authors refer to their hypothesis as differential partitioning - environmental buffering, and suggest that partitioning cells into different fates according to prevailing conditions could be a strategy used by many other types of cell coalitions — whether microbial communities, humans, trees, or jellyfish.

Microbial communities in biological denitrification system using methanol as carbon source for treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate from coking wastewater — Enchao Li — Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination

Ken is currently involved with several research projects, including the US - based eXtreme Microbiome Project (XMP), as well as evaluating emerging technologies that can be used to profile the diversity of microbial communities.

Using the oral microbial flora as a model system, this application seeks to decipher metabolic and genetic functions among different species within the oral microbial communities.

Understanding the metabolism and gene expression profiles as well as inter-species interactions within these complex microbial communities are necessary steps in studying the diseases and finding new treatment solutions.

He has sought to understand how modern microbial communities become preserved as fossils.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.

These results stress the role of the environmental microbial communities, in combination with unintentional antibiotic release, as potential recruitment pools for human pathogens.