Sentences with phrase «studies microbial ecosystems»

This advice comes from Dr. Jack Gilbert, a scientist at the University of Chicago who studies microbial ecosystems and recently published a book called Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for your Child's Developing Immune System.

Stefan Bertilsson studies microbial ecosystems in water and helps researchers to investigate the genetic material of single cells.

The selected proposals include research on genetic switches to study microbial ecosystems, tools for deciphering multi-kingdom communication molecules, and a novel approach to map interactions between bacteria species.

Not exact matches

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.

Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in laboratory cultures and contaminated field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.

She is a member of CIFAR's Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecMicrobial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecmicrobial life shapes all ecosystems.

While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.

Decomposition is a fundamental microbial function that plays a major role in how ecosystems work,» said study co-author Sasha Reed at the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah.

In a study published today in the journal Nature, the researchers refer to this alternative model as «piggyback - the - winner,» and it could have implications for phage - based medicine and ecosystem resilience in the face of environmental disturbances that promote microbial blooms.

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.

These tools will enable new, experimental approaches for studying animal - associated microbial communities as ecosystems of interacting colonized hosts, and colonizing microbes.

The study says that massive sponges like this one provide «key ecosystem services such as filtering large amounts of seawater, as well as providing important habitat to a myriad of invertebrate and microbial species.»

Caroline is working on adapting the Robogut model system to the culture of the mouse microbiome, in order to study how the microbial ecosystem of mice susceptible to colorectal cancer is perturbed during disease.

She is currently working on the development of immobilized microbial communities from deep sea ecosystems to study microbial population dynamics during continuous cultures in bioreactors.

The same study noted that when your microbial ecosystem is in a state of dysbiosis, gut bacteria can produce substances like D - lactic acid and ammonia, which can exert neurotoxic properties and impede the function of the nervous system.