Sentences with phrase «on microbial diversity»

Effect of ocean acidification on microbial diversity and on microbe - driven biogeochemistry and ecosystem functioning

Jackson's work on microbial diversity caught the attention of Seed, who was already interested in the microbiome in the guts of preterm infants but who did not have a background in ecology.

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

Not exact matches

By the fourth generation, the mice bred on low - fiber diets had lost 72 percent of the microbial diversity.

They found that pups of mice on the low - fiber diet showed less and less microbial diversity with each generation.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

The microbial mass in and on a person may amount to just a few pounds, but in terms of genetic diversity these fellow travelers overwhelm their hosts, with 400 genes for every human one.

«Our study suggests that the disease process and antibiotic treatment could have a far greater impact on intestinal microbial diversity than surgical intervention,» said Minna Wieck, MD, an investigator and surgical resident at CHLA and first author on the study.

In his own lab, he is raising nematodes on soil enriched with different types of produce — sugary versus fibrous, for example — and finds that no matter what the food source and the resulting environmental microbial diversity, worms have similar sets of bacteria in their guts.

The Streptococcus pneumoniae Genome Diversity Project More information about S. pneumoniae, on a site supported by vaccine manufacturer Wyeth - Lederle List of the more than 45 microbial genomes so far completed, with links to others still in progress

Impact of parenteral antimicrobial administration on the structure and diversity of the fecal microbiota of growing pigs — Mohamed Zeineldin — Microbial Pathogenesis

Therefore, we propose to perform metagenomics and transcriptomics analysis on vaginal samples from patients with high - and low - risk HPV phenotypes to investigate the microbial population dynamics and genomic diversity of the vagina during various stages of HPV infection compared to uninfected individuals.

One of the main activities in the Ettema - Lab is to explore the existing microbial diversity on our planet.

I am working on bacterial genomics and evolution with a focus on within - patient microbial diversity

Impact of Chemical and Biological Fungicides Applied to Grapevine on Grape Biofilm, Must, and Wine Microbial Diversity.

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.

Her work will contribute to future studies on diverse topics such as past climate patterns and microbial diversity in East Antarctica.

Our findings are potentially applicable to early disease detection, and future test development should focus on longitudinal sampling of the microbiota to monitor for changes in microbial diversity in a larger cohort of patients.

Paralarvae reared in captivity with Artemia showed a depletion of bacterial diversity, particularly after day 5, when almost half the bacterial species present on day 0 were lost and two bacterial families (Mycoplasmataceae and Vibrionaceae) dominated the microbial community.

He is specialized in the ecology and diversity of cyanobacteria, other marine bacteria and microalgae, and known for his work on microbial mats and nitrogen fixation

Low microbial diversity is more common than you might think — not only are prescription antibiotics on the rise, but we are more stressed, are using more antibacterial soaps, and eating more animal proteins that are treated with antibiotics and fed corn (which changes their microbiome).

That said, I think that we are so clueless about replicating even somewhat of a natural environment that makes us thrive that it's going to be hard to go to other places unless we figure out the microbial diversity and avoiding, say toxic fungus growing on your spaceship, because that'll sort of kill you as well as getting our lighting and even our EMF environment to replicate what we naturally had on Planet Earth.