Sentences with phrase «of microbial interactions»

It is the first such model to include a realistic representation of microbial interactions.

Integrated network analysis reveals the importance of microbial interactions for maize growth — Jiemeng Tao — Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

The consequences of these microbial interactions are critically important for the global carbon cycle, and for us.»

«Through a combination of field experiments and sequencing, we have obtained a new view of the microbial interactions underpinning a highly productive ecosystem,» said Allen.

Meyer's research focuses on the role of microbial interactions in the health and stability of coral reefs and is performed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Marine Station.

Not exact matches

However, in the last few centuries of human - microbe interactions, changes in our birth and medical practices and living conditions may have altered the acquisition of our microbial communities.

«It opens a door on a type of plant - microbial interaction that we're going to find all over the plant world,» he says.

The researchers» model helps reveal how conditions such as sunlight and shading affect crop growth — but many other factors such as water availability and microbial interactions determine the length of a corncob or width of a soybean.

«The establishment of healthy microbial communities almost certainly requires chemical messaging between the species present in the human host,» says Texas A&M University biochemist Paul Straight, who studies interactions among bacteria.

These drug - bug interactions could make microbial genes just as important as a person's genes for predicting how a drug will affect someone, says Matthew Redinbo of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The team is currently studying microbial - immune interaction in a more complex context, analyzing the additive effects of several bacterial species at a time.

Knowing how giant viruses impact microbial survival and community interactions is relevant to U.S. Department of Energy missions in bioenergy and environment.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

This is also the goal of many other current research projects of the Department of Computational Systems Biology, which focuses on research on pathogens, microbial communities and molecular interactions between species adopting a system - oriented approach.

It did, however, temporarily suppress four distinct organisms early in life during the critical window of microbial colonization: Lactobacillus, Allobaculum, Candidatus Arthromitus, and an unnamed member of the Rikenellaceae family, which may have important metabolic and immunological interactions.

The most accredited theories about gut - brain interaction will be reviewed, along with current scientific evidence supporting the relationship between microbial imbalances and impairment of neurodevelopment.

He is now a researcher at Florida International University where he will continue to pursue his studies of the interactions between soft - sediment metazoan and microbial assemblages and the impact this has on biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem function.

The Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology is part of this Department, and its research focuses on microbial genetics, host - pathogen interaction, recombinant vaccines and vaccine immunology.

Eoin Brodie seeks to reverse engineer naturally occurring microbiomes to understand the functional roles of the microorganisms within them and how their interactions with one another and the environment create stable microbial communities.

To understand weathering, water quality, and soil formation on Earth and Mars, look no further than associate professor of geoscience Elisabeth «Libby» Hausrath, who investigates chemical interactions between water and rocks as well as the plant and microbial influences on those reactions.

«To move beyond cataloging microbes, we will need new tools to rapidly determine microbial gene function and monitor the chemicals microbes use to communicate and interact with their environment, and new ways to visualize and model those interactions,» said Eoin Brodie, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Earth Sciences Division and an author of the proposal.

The interaction between our human and microbial selves is being investigated in nearly every disease you can think of.

«This is a tremendous innovation for in situ studies as a new means to interrogate the chemical language of microbial system interactions, as well as being relative to the discovery and development of new electrode materials for energy storage,» said Dr. Louis Terminello, who leads chemical imaging work at PNNL.

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.

These 2D cultures also abolish the need for intraluminal microinjection of single organoids and facilitate studies of host - microbe or virus interactions or the action of microbial enterotoxins because the luminal surface is fully exposed to the mucosal medium (22,23).

Still, he said, the new data, «has important implications for understanding the genesis of cancer and the interaction between human cells and other microbial or viral organisms in or around us.»

Effects of soil depth and plant - soil interaction on microbial community in temperate grasslands of northern China.

Potential for Developing Low - Input Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropical Andes by Making Use of Native Microbial Resources — Luis Andrés Yarzábal, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

Rhizoremediation of Environmental Contaminants Using Microbial Communities — Ashish A. Prabhu, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

Microbial Interactions and Perspectives for Bioremediation of Pesticides in the Soils — Ratna Prabha, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

The Microbial Pathogenesis team, under the leadership of Professor Gordon Dougan, is focusing on the genetic analysis of the interactions between bacteria and their hosts to shed light on how humans and other animals respond to infection.

One mission of the Microbial Observatory Experiments on the International Space Station is to examine the traits and diversity of fungal isolates, to gain a better understanding of how fungi may adapt to microgravity environments and how this may affect interactions with humans in closed habitats.

Professor Zipfel is speaker of the graduate school «International Leibniz Research School (ILRS) for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions» and he is associate editor and a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals.

The Laboratory of Microbial Immunity is part of this Department, and its research focuses on host - pathogen interaction, recombinant vaccines and vaccine immunology.

Paul's research expertise includes: cultivation of marine bacteria, microbial distribution and interactions with marine plants and invertebrates, sequence - based approaches to the discovery of natural products from marine microbes, comparative genomics, microbial chemical ecology, molecular evolution and natural product biosynthesis.

The Vitamin D from the sun, the interaction with the varied microbial environment of the soil for immune building, and the interaction with our food supply.

In dogs and cats we have some knowledge of the structure of microbiomes and we now need a greater understanding in pets of microbial function, host - microbe interactions and the role of nutrition.

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