Sentences with phrase «microbial evolution»

Sometimes other enzymes will take on new roles to patch together a work - around chain of reactions that does the job, biologist Shelley Copley reported August 4 at the 2nd American Society for Microbiology Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution.

Interestingly, strains that jump from humans to monkeys lose genes that are known to confer adaptation to the human host, said Edward Feil, PhD, Professor of Microbial Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK, who led the analysis of the strains.

Humans are pushing microbial evolution into overdrive.

Besides its potential for future disease prevention, the researchers think their mutation prevention system could more immediately be used to help the biotech industry protect large - scale cultures from acquiring mutations that render them unproductive or prone to contaminations, and to study microbial evolution.

Ilja will do her second research internship in the Ettema lab, where her supervisor Anja Spang will guide her through her first encounter with microbial evolution.

Arber devoted most of his research to investigations on the molecular processes behind microbial evolution.

The change from all mixed up to irregular patches works like a separation process of phases of metals (called the Model A order - disorder transition) and has not been reported before in living things, William Ratcliff of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta said August 5 at the 2nd American Society for Microbiology Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution.

Remarkably, the Phe396 amino acid was present in all of them, indicating it is likely the switch has existed throughout more than 2 billion years of microbial evolution.

This microbial evolution calls for further research into the electron - producing properties of various species and their interaction, the authors write.

Over generations, the pair gets faster, Lucy McCully of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth said August 6 at the 2nd American Society for Microbiology Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution.

More recently, having obtained funding from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) and the Stiftelse för Strategisk Forskning (SSF — «Future Research Leader»), I have build up a research group that operates at the intersection of microbial genomics, microbial ecology and microbial evolution.

The researchers describe the giant petri dish, named the Microbial Evolution and Growth Arena (MEGA) plate, as a simple platform to examine how challenging forces can cause an organize to adapt or die.