The appointment
of microbial ecologists to editorial boards would help.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
In search
of microscopic life, molecular
ecologist Kay Bidle
of Rutgers University looked for
microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one
of his expeditions.
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.
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.
«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.
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.
«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.
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.
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 happens because the presence
of microbial cheaters ultimately reduces the total amount
of enzymes produced by the
microbial community, while the total amount
of microbial biomass stays about the same» explains University
of Vienna
ecologist and IIASA guest researcher Christina Kaiser, who led the study.
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.
«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.
«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.
This transfer
of carbon — or energy — up the food web is inefficient, says John Priscu, a
microbial ecologist from Montana State University who was part
of the team that discovered the Antarctic fish this month.
«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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But Brian Lanoil, a
microbial ecologist at the University
of California, Riverside, cautions that contamination could still be a problem.
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.
However, the rain was less efficient removing viruses from the atmosphere,» said author and
microbial ecologist Isabel Reche from the University
of Granada.
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.
Dr. Janet Jansson, a
microbial ecologist from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State in the US, was part
of the team trying to prove trans - poo - tion works.
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.
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.