Sentences with phrase «of microbial systems»

It is satisfying to be able to use my understanding of microbial systems and apply them to other systems — instead of a lake, it can be the rumen of a moose or the intestine of a rat, said Stefan Bertilsson.

The study is the result of one the first collaborations from the Microbiome Center, a joint effort by the University of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory to support scientists at all three institutions who are developing new applications and tools to understand and harness the capabilities of microbial systems across different fields.

«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.

Not exact matches

The PhytoShield ™ Flavor Enhancer line can be customized to a food system to address a broad range of product quality goals related to flavor, microbial degradation, and shelf life with a single, natural technology.

The treatment plant reduces the high levels of Suspended Solids (SS) and Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the wastewater sufficiently to allow discharge into the local authority's sewerage system without the requirement for costly microbial after - treatment.

Understanding the role of each group of microbes in the breast milk would also provide leads to the pharmaceutical industry in harnessing microbial power to boost our immune system from various illnesses and allergies.

These samples will help educate researchers on the impact of water re-use systems on microbial diversity.

While the Rockland County Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Ruppert stated that measurements did not reach levels that represent a public health concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth; may indicate the presence of disease causing organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune systems.

The eight - member team concluded «that inter-host dispersal can alter the diversity and composition of microbial communities and overwhelm the effects of the host's innate immune system.»

An example of fermentation engineering is the development of a microbial culture - based treatment system to degrade a phenol, which is toxic and very stable, to a liquid that can be safely disposed.

The researchers were exploring how to manipulate bacterial flow, as a way to prevent biofilms — dense layers of microbial slime that can take over shower stalls, clog filtration systems, and cling to ship hulls.

The team, led by doctoral student Adam R. Burns, now a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, compared what they found in the fish with predictions from computer modeling of microbial dynamics performed by co-author Elizabeth Miller of the META Center for Systems Biology.

The oozy red slush of Blood Falls in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contains teeming microbial life — and may be a sample of a deep briny groundwater system hundreds of meters below the surface.

«Nerves control the body's bacterial community: Research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body.»

«We added lower concentrations [of silver] to a more complex system, but rather than find no measurable effect, we found that the silver nanoparticles significantly altered the plant growth, microbial biomass and microbial activity.»

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

Professor Imogen Foubert from the KU Leuven Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems explains: «Cocoa butter crystallises as the liquid chocolate hardens.

The new study, by researchers at the University of Vienna and the International Institute of Applied System Analysis explores the role of microbial cheaters for soil carbon and nitrogen cycling using a computer model.

The research also shows that the presence of microbial cheaters may help the soil system to react more flexibly to changes in environmental conditions.

An exhaust vent leading from one of the facility's «clean rooms» to the roof lacked a filter or screen, for example, and flaws in the air handling system could expose sterile drugs to microbial contamination during processing.

«In all of our studies, we're working with people who know the microbes well, and we help them decide how viruses might be helpful to the microbial system.

Systemic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome.

When we think of how we fight disease, the image of cells in our immune system fending off microbial invaders often comes to mind.

Scientists already know that the possession of certain immune system genes makes people more likely to develop MS, and it could be that these genes make people prone to autoimmune reactions when faced with microbial molecular mimicry.

The challenge is to engineer a system where we get enough growth to have a productive microbial «chemical factory» but not so much that we can't channel enough of the sugars into a pathway to make large quantities of our target molecules,» says Kristala Prather, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study.

Through considerations of developmental systems perspectives, epigenetics, and microbial life, Dupré challenges widely held assumptions about biology and evolution.

The discovery demonstrates the value of using microbial systems to investigate ecological and evolutionary questions, and has strong implications for our understanding and even treatment of infectious diseases.

The study suggests a new method to show how microbial communities, including those responsible for illnesses like Legionnaires» disease, may assemble inside the plumbing systems of homes and public buildings.

Principle topics of the ocean margin systems workshop were microbial systems in sedimentary environments, fluid flow and subsurface material transport, margin building / regulating processes, and benthic population dynamics and relationships to sedimentary settings.

Andrew Steele uses traditional and biotechnological approaches for the detection of microbial life in astrobiology and solar system exploration.

«We have become increasingly aware of how crucially important a healthy gut microbial population is for a well - functioning immune system.

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.

The immune system maintains a rich abundance of «natural killer» cells to confront microbial invaders, but as the body gains the upper hand in various infections it sometimes starts to produce even more of the cells.

«The fact that we could alleviate inflammation by adding back a single key bacterial strain, suggests that it could be useful as a probiotic for inflammatory diseases,» said Rolig, who, along with Eisen, is a scientist in the National Institutes of Health - funded Microbial Ecology and Theory of Animals Center for Systems Biology, known as the META Center, which Guillemin heads.

«Plants and their microbial neighbors have this beautifully complex and intricate system of communicating through chemical signals, with each trying to manipulate the situation to maximize their own fitness,» Bais says.

Tilled systems that used a chisel plow were equivalent to no - till systems, in terms of microbial biomass.

«What we're trying to understand in the extreme systems is, what are the environmental drivers that are motivating the composition and structure of the [microbial] community?»

The biggest mystery in the microbiome field is whether microbial changes are a cause or an effect of problems with the immune system, Dongari - Bagtzoglou says.

Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.

Clement Furlong, a researcher in medical and genomic sciences at the University of Washington notes that the «huge advantage» of these heavy - chain - only antibodies «is that you can make them by fermentation in microbial systems and make a lot of antibodies inexpensively.»

The system is an evolutionarily ancient branch of the immune response and a key function is marking microbial and dying host cells for elimination.

To ensure the systems» stability, countermeasures may be required to avoid development of highly resistant, adapted microorganisms, and a complete loss of microbial diversity.

«There's tons of questions around just how this whole system might control microbial populations in the gut, which have increasingly been shown to be important in obesity and diabetes, and all sorts of human conditions.»

The hallmark of vertebrate immune systems is their ability to «remember» an infection and mount specific attacks against microbial invaders the next time they come knocking.

About 30 years ago, scientists found a link between MS and certain variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a cluster of genes that help the immune system distinguish between the body's own proteins and those of microbial invaders.

The immunologist at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases proposed that alarm signals released from injured and dying cells can kick our immune system into high gear even when no microbial threat is evident.

«Mining sequence data in DOE JGI's Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes system, which houses thousands of metagenomes, allowed us to find evolutionary relatives of our Klosneuvirus,» Schulz said.

Nicholson (2006) has long been a proponent of the application of systems analysis to diagnostics and therapeutics, focusing, in particular, on the metabolome and its environmental (including microbial) modulation.

Divergent assemblage patterns of abundant and rare microbial sub-communities in response to inorganic carbon stresses in a simultaneous anammox and denitrification (SAD) system — Duntao Shu, Bioresource Technology

Assessing the origin of bacteria in tap water and distribution system in an unchlorinated drinking water system by SourceTracker using microbial community fingerprints — Gang Liu — Water Research