Sentences with phrase «soil microbiologist»

Collaborators include Dr. Bill Pinchak, AgriLife Research animal nutritionist in Vernon, who will facilitate the grazing measurements and animal gain; Dr. Emi Kimura and Dr. Jourdan Bell, AgriLife Extension agronomists in Vernon and Amarillo, respectively, who will conduct the Extension outreach and education component; Dr. Seong Park, AgriLife Research economist in Vernon; and Dr. Anil Somenahally, AgriLife Research soil microbiologist in Overton.

In 1996, soil microbiologist Sara Wright of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi — a type of microscopic fungus that lives symbiotically with plant roots — oozes a sticky protein called glomalin.

As a lead author of a chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report released this month, Kansas State University Distinguished Professor and soil microbiologist Chuck Rice gave a presentation at the World Bank on April 16.

Not exact matches

ARS employs about 2000 scientists, covering a wide range of disciplines, including chemists, hydrologists, microbiologists, and soil, plant, and animal scientists.

There are analytical chemists, food engineers and scientists, soil scientists, computer programmers, microbiologists, post-harvest engineers, agricultural engineers, chemical engineers, and others, all working together in the field of biosystems engineering.

To study viral diversity in the ocean or within soil samples, environmental microbiologists must count how many viruses they find.

Two projects will be done jointly with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm: Molecular biologist David Baillie of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, was awarded $ 6.73 million to study protein function in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and microbiologist Sherif Abou Elela of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, received $ 3.75 million to test modified nucleic acid technologies for determining gene function.

The researchers used a version of this approach to isolate and grow new bacterial colonies — many scooped out of soil in the backyard of microbiologist Losee Ling, who leads research and development at the startup company NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, formed to commercialize their approach.

In collaboration with researchers in the US and Germany, Otago microbiologists have teased out the mechanisms by which the aerobic soil microbe Mycobacterium smegmatis is able to persist for extreme lengths of time in the absence, or near - absence, of oxygen.

Microbiologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have just discovered that a social amoeba, a unicellular microorganism living in the soils of temperate forests, also uses both these mechanisms, and has done so for over a billion years.

Microbiologist Lisa Durso and her colleagues at the ARS Agroecosystem Management Research Unit in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently demonstrated that ungrazed prairie soils have measurable amounts of bacteria with antibiotic resistance.

«Soils are a buffer against all kinds of insults to our ecosystem,» said Vanessa Bailey, a microbiologist who works closely with Jansson at PNNL.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory microbiologists Sarah Fansler (left) and Vanessa Bailey use instruments at PNNL's Biological Sciences Facility to study microbes that typically live in soils.

Congratulations to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory microbiologist Dr. Vanessa Bailey, who has accepted a 3 - year term beginning January 1, 2012, as an associate editor on the editorial board of the Soil Science Society of America Journal (SSSA Journal).

The restorative power of nature starts in its tiniest building blocks, according to clinical microbiologist Douglas Toal, Ph.D. «Numerous studies have demonstrated that the presence of soil and vegetation can have a significant impact on the composition of colonizing microbiota,» he says.

Bacillus subtilis is a soil based organism discovered by German microbiologists during WWII.