Sentences with phrase «microbial ecologist»

Later, as a young microbial ecologist at Stockholm University in Sweden, she started to catalog the microorganisms she collected during soil sampling trips, deciphering their genetic code so she could understand both their internal workings and how they fit into their underground habitat.

says microbial ecologist Kenneth Lee, director of the Center for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, who has been assisting with BP's mess.

«One of the biggest problems in the exploration of microbial dark matter is that so far, it is very complicated to determine when uncultured microbes are metabolically active and what their ecological function in a system is,» said study first author Roland Hatzenpichler, a postdoctoral researcher working in the Caltech lab of microbial ecologist Victoria Orphan.

asks microbial ecologist Kenneth Lee, director of the Center for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

And other labs working with Vostok ice haven't found any evidence of thermophiles, says microbial ecologist John Priscu, whose group published the first papers on bacteria in Vostok ice.

A young microbial ecologist is helping to transform medical microbiology into a modern interdisciplinary science.

The team, led by Berkeley Lab microbial ecologist Gary Andersen, is the first to simulate the conditions that occurred in the aftermath of the spill.

Over the several months, the renowned microbial ecologist will be working alongside Shedd scientists and experts to further understand the impact of water - saving measures on microbial communities in the Abbott Oceanarium.

Australian microbial ecologist Jenny Skerrat writes about what it takes to do research in Antarctica — from personal traits to research project design — and the beneficial effect of the experience on her career.

Researchers «saw the oil at 800 to 1,400 meters depth,» says microbial ecologist Andreas P. Teske of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

To really determine whether stowaway bacteria would survive on Mars, experiments need to use more complex surfaces, «not the kind of configurations that microbial ecologists find easy to count,» he says.

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.

It's too soon to say that the microorganisms found at 16 meters are in fact 2800 years old, since the ice could have melted and refrozen recently, says microbial ecologist Warwick Vincent of the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

Garriet Smith, a marine microbial ecologist at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, says he suspects that the aspergillus arrives as atmospheric fallout, from winds bearing sands of the Sahara.

Microbial ecologist Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and his colleagues used two ships to collect 200 samples from 17 deep water locations between May 25 and June 2.

«This is really cool, just from a biological discovery standpoint,» says microbial ecologist Jennifer DeBruyn of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville who was not part of the study.

The research demonstrates an exciting new way that microbes may be able to survive underground, says microbial ecologist Rick Colwell of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls.

In 2002, microbiologist Kim Lewis, along with his colleague at Northeastern University in Boston, microbial ecologist Slava Epstein, described a new technique for coaxing bacteria to grow: Put soil samples into tiny chambers sandwiched between permeable membranes and return these contraptions to the ground.

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.

Jack Gilbert, an Argonne microbial ecologist, is part of a team working with the City of Chicago to create a dynamic microbiome map of Chicago - area waterways.

Prior to this research, microbial ecologist Lars Peter Nielsen of Aarhus University in Denmark and his colleagues had shown that microbes working in the oxygen - free muck at the bottom of Denmark's Aarhus Bay exchanged electrons over relatively large distances of centimeters, although how the bacteria managed the trick remained unknown.

By hosting fewer methane - producing microbes, the GM rice might alter the soil ecosystem in unknown ways, notes microbial ecologist Paul Bodelier of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology at Wageningen University in a commentary.

Byron Crump, a study co-author and an Oregon State University microbial ecologist, said in a statement that a chief reason why the sun is so effective at carbon breakdown is that most of the fresh water in the Arctic is shallow, allowing light to reach the bottom of any river.

The morel can spread soil bacteria to new «fields» and cultivate them with fungal secretions that the bacteria consume, says microbial ecologist Pilar Junier of the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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

However, the rain was less efficient removing viruses from the atmosphere,» said author and microbial ecologist Isabel Reche from the University of Granada.

The soil microbial ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen started texting friends — all women scientists — back in the United States.

Last year microbial ecologist Noah Fierer, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder, sampled bacterial diversity in 98 different soils across North and South America.

Besides Lampe and Neuhouser, other Fred Hutch faculty members on the multidisciplinary research team are nutritional sciences expert Dr. Mario Kratz, translational researcher Dr. Paul Lampe, microbial ecologist Dr. Meredith Hullar and biostatistician Dr. Tim Randolph.

By bringing together microbial ecologists, biogeochemists her group examines the influence of microbial communities on coastal ocean processes, especially in light of a changing climate.

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.

Yes, says microbial ecologist Holly Ganz, PhD, co-founder and CEO of AnimalBiome, a company that analyzes the microbiomes of dogs and cats and offers treatment in the form of healthy fecal material in capsules.

The research was led by Eric Dubinsky and Gary Andersen, microbial ecologists at Berkeley Lab, and was published recently in the journal Water Research in an article titled, «Microbial source tracking in impaired watersheds using PhyloChip and machine - learning classification.»

The appointment of microbial ecologists to editorial boards would help.

Microbial ecologist John Breznak of Michigan State University, East Lansing, calls the work a «nice discovery» and suggests a dietary change «that minimizes how much hydrogen gas gets to the stomach» might control the ulcer - causing bug.

To take another look at what might lie beneath, Jill Mikucki, a microbial ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her colleagues partnered with SkyTEM, a Denmark - based airborne geophysical survey company.

Vanja Klepac - Ceraj, a microbial ecologist by training and an assistant research investigator at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has helped organize symposia with ecologists and biomedical researchers giving joint talks on the ecology of disease.

According to Peter Groffman, a microbial ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., northern hardwood forests have relied on thick layers of leaf litter that serve as a rooting medium.

«Nobody's ever just taken a bunch of soils and said, «Let's see what we have,»» says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado.

Preliminary work by other groups, similarly made up of both biomedical researchers and microbial ecologists, suggests that imbalances in the microbiome might also be linked to allergies, diabetes, and obesity.

LaTuga is one of several medical researchers at Duke working with microbial ecologists to study the development of the human microbiome — the enormous population of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, that live in the human body, predominantly in the gut.

«Vostok is probably our best model» for the ice - covered oceans on other worlds, says John Priscu, a microbial ecologist at Montana State University who studies polar bacteria.

This is what makes the next step «so logical,» according to Maria Gloria Dominguez - Bello, a microbial ecologist at New York University School of Medicine in New York City: seeing whether the microbiome of a baby born by C - section could be shifted immediately after birth.

Gareth Griffith is a microbial ecologist at Aberystwyth University in the UK.

«There are certain [microbes] we all have, and certain things that are unique to individuals, but we really have no idea where we acquire these in our lifetime,» says James Meadow, the study's lead author and a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

But the bacteria told a different story, says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Today's hpEurope strain has far more DNA from the African type of H. pylori than does Ötzi's Asian strain, notes lead author Frank Maixner, a microbial ecologist at EURAC.

«This is a powerful study,» says Rachel Adams, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the new research.