Sentences with phrase «microbial ecologists at»

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.

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.

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.

«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.

By discovering what kind of life inhabits Antarctic lakes, John Priscu — a microbial ecologist at Montana State University in Bozeman who is analyzing samples from Lake Whillans — hopes to understand what sort of technology will be needed when probes are eventually sent to those frozen moons.

«It's pretty impressive that they did it on the scale that they did,» adds Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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.

Still, Jack Gilbert, a microbial ecologist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois (who is also a guest editor at Microbiome), stresses that more work must be done to understand the consequences of these findings.

«Once you look at these microbes at the species level, we are all pretty much distinct,» says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

James Meadow, a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon.

«This is extremely exciting as it provides evidence that a microbial war is ongoing in our body,» says Jack Gilbert, a microbial ecologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

But Brian Lanoil, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, cautions that contamination could still be a problem.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The release of those gases from fertilized soils increases at high temperatures due to increased microbial activity, says Darrel Jenerette, an ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved in the new study.

«This is one of the first studies to show that that the microbiomes of a traditional agriculturalist group exhibit an intermediate state, between the microbiomes of hunter - gatherers and those of a western industrialized society,» says first author Andres Gomez, a microbial ecologist and staff scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California.

The genome data give both cholera researchers and microbial ecologists a new way to look at the microbe.

The study is the first to demonstrate this kind of teleconnection between the sea floor, subsea floor and microbial processes in the upper ocean, said Andy Juhl, an aquatic ecologist at Lamont and coauthor.

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.

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.

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.