Sentences with phrase «studying cyanobacteria»

Brand has spent a lot of time at sea over the past 15 years studying cyanobacteria blooms.

David Wynn - Williams, a microbiologist for the British Antarctic Survey, studies the cyanobacteria that inhabit porous sandstone rocks in the Dry Valleys.

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The unsolved mystery resurfaced in the PNAS cyanobacteria bloom study, which provides the first evidence for BMAA biomagnification in an aquatic food chain.

Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin - producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year's Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.

The paper is a technical analysis of the uncertainties involved in computer modeling studies that use the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Erie in the spring to predict the size of late - summer cyanobacteria blooms, which have grown larger since the mid-1990s.

In a study published September 22, 2015 in Nature Communications, a team led by Northen used seven bacterial isolates from desert biocrusts, one of them the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus - sequenced by the DOE JGI — that had been the focus of earlier work.

During the 62nd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, held Feb. 17 - 21, in San Francisco, California, Andy LiWang at the University of California, Merced will present his lab's work studying the circadian clock of blue - green colored cyanobacteria.

The best studied belongs to photosynthetic cyanobacteria: other microbes, like E. coli, don't carry clocks at all, says Pamela Silver at Harvard.

The PNNL study was aimed at ferreting out proteins that are potential redox players in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus.

It has also been observed that approximately 50 % of lakes studied do not exceed the cyanobacteria levels given by the WHO even though they have high concentrations of phosphorus.

Specifically, they determined this by studying the biogenesis of hapalindole - type alkaloid welwitindolinones in stigonematalean cyanobacteria.

One study of cyanobacteria, also known as blue - green algae, although they are not algae, predicted that rising sea temperatures could help the already widespread creatures expand their territory by more than 10 percent.

«A particularly important observation was that cell components of cyanobacteria do not interfere with the catalytic activity,» Robert Kourist sums up the results of the study.

The scientists from the University of Freiburg, who are studying CRISPR / Cas systems, have now demonstrated that the enzyme RNase E acts as RNA scissors in the CRISPR / Cas systems of cyanobacteria.

Mathematical study of pattern formation accompanied by heterocyst differentiation in multicellular cyanobacterium.

Many scientists who study evolution blame one particular organism called cyanobacteria.

The study — led by IU biologist David M. Kehoe and conducted by Joseph E. Sanfilippo, IU Ph.D. student, and Animesh Shukla, former IU Ph.D. student, in collaboration with researchers in the United States and France — is the first to show how a process that improves light capture in marine cyanobacteria is regulated.

To study the precise relationship between the circadian clock, light and metabolism, Rust and his colleagues created genetically engineered cyanobacteria that were able to feed on sugar in addition to normal photosynthesis.

Cyanobacteria are one of the most ancient forms of life on Earth, and coupled with the universal nature of the circadian clock, this study indicates that its fundamental function is to help schedule different metabolic activities.

MattyB; we DO N'T know the human emissions; we don't know how much is coming from land clearing; I've seen no studies which compare the CO2 uptake of new crops compared to established forest, or anything conclusive about cyanobacteria which are potentially one of the biggest and most living fluctuating sinks and which extent seems to be correlated with ACO2 emissions; and as Louis Hissinck noted, perhaps the biggest sink, ocean / mantle recycling is not considered in any discussion on CO2 / ACO2 flux.

The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina is being studied as a model organism for alternative pigment signatures of oxygenic photosynthesis adapted, for example, to the light of red dwarf stars.