Sentences with phrase «studying microbial»

However, Antarctica, unlike the other continents has no higher plants and therefore acts as a perfect natural laboratory for studying microbial DOM.

Dr. Vega Thurber then went to San Diego State University where she was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Forest Rohwer studying microbial and viral metagenomics.

[7] «Within the BelSPO - funded BELDIVA project, we are studying the microbial biodiversity and its response to climate change, in collaboration with scientists from the Universities of Liège and Ghent and the Botanic Garden in Meise.

Dr. Tang has had a long - standing interest and a demonstrated record of productive multidisciplinary research in studying microbial small molecules and their effects on human health.

«By studying the microbial community in the panda's gastrointestinal tract, we gain a better understanding of panda nutrition, which could help improve the health and reproduction of the endangered species.»

This is an excellent example of how things can be hidden right under our eyes and why it is crucial that we keep studying the microbial world.»

The team is currently studying microbial - immune interaction in a more complex context, analyzing the additive effects of several bacterial species at a time.

Jackson was studying microbial communities around the world, including in the Amazon, when he realized that the ecological balance in those environments was not so different from the balance present in a healthy human gut.

At Ames, Farmer studied microbial life in the hot springs at Yellowstone National Park, a project he began in 1989 while still at UCLA.

Roller derby provided an ideal setting to study the microbial effects of skin - to - skin contact.

«When we've studied microbial systems under similar doses to what you would have around these waste forms, it doesn't kill them,» says Lloyd.

Elizabeth Heidrich, a PhD student at Newcastle University in England and lead author of the new study, studies microbial fuel cells — devices that generate electrical current by capturing the electrons freed as bacteria break down organic matter in wastewater.

Besides its potential for future disease prevention, the researchers think their mutation prevention system could more immediately be used to help the biotech industry protect large - scale cultures from acquiring mutations that render them unproductive or prone to contaminations, and to study microbial evolution.

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.

William Nierman, PhD, has studied microbial genomics since joining the faculty of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in 1998.

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

Prof. Ghedin studies microbial and viral population structures, and how these impact host response to infection and emerging infectious diseases.

Multi-locus and long amplicon sequencing approach to study microbial diversity at species level using the MinION ™ portable nanopore sequencer

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.

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.

Since October, I've been helping Hugh Ducklow from Columbia's Earth and Environmental Sciences department study the microbial communities of Western Antarctica.

Not exact matches

Conclusion University of Bologna's new study proved that using corrugated instead of plastic packaging for fruit can significantly reduce potential contamination via microbial transfer.

Clinical studies show a 99 % plus kill rate for microbials and removalof VOC's.

One 2013 study found significant microbial contamination in breast milks samples purchased online, concluding that mothers should avoid use of donated or sold breastmilk and suggesting further use of lactation services as the solution to increasing breastfeeding rates.

Quiz Ref IDWe sequenced the V4 - V5 regions of the bacterial 16S rDNA to characterize the microbial communities present in a stool sample from each study participant at 6 weeks of age.

Although a few previous studies have found associations between infant feeding and intestinal microbiome composition,9 - 12, 14 to our knowledge, none has examined the relative contribution of combination feeding (breast milk and formula) alongside exclusive formula or breastfeeding to overall microbial community composition.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

There have been no long - term longitudinal studies of the effects of early feeding method on the microbiome, but early feeding has the potential for lasting effects on microbial community structure, 32 and these effects may be one mechanism for the health benefits of breastfeeding on childhood and lifelong health.

«We found that babies who are fed only breast milk have microbial communities that seem more ready for the introduction of solid foods,» the study's lead author Dr. Andrea Azcarate - Peril, assistant professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, said in a press release.

Boivin had studied cellular, molecular, and microbial biology for her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Calgary in her native Canada, but, she says, «I always had an interest in archaeology.»

How this might figure into greater cattle methane production remains to be studied, but Hammer and company speculate that the antibiotics may wipe out the bacterial competition for microbial methane factories.

Second, Neil Ross from Newcastle University in England, a co-author on the study, speculates that the lake could contain microbial life.

Johanna Roßmanith and her doctoral supervisor Prof Dr Franz Narberhaus from the Chair of Microbial Biology carried out a successful study where they controlled the type of proteins a bacterium would manufacture and its behaviour.

A new study suggests the alcohol not only helps the fungus grow, but it also inhibits microbial «weeds» that would otherwise crowd it out.

«Microbial dispersal impacts animal guts: Study with zebrafish finds that transmitted microbes will lead to similar microbiomes and a selection process for some microbes.»

SAMHD1 isn't a molecular «good guy» or «bad guy» per se, but there are cases in which blocking its activity might thwart disease progression, said Li Wu, the study's senior author and a professor of veterinary biosciences and microbial infection and immunity in Ohio State's Center for Retrovirus Research.

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

«Perhaps even more exciting are the implications of the study for microbial ecology, since it suggests our unique microbial residents are tuned to the environment of our body — our genetics, diet, and developmental history — in such a way that they stick with us and help to fend off less - friendly microbial invaders over time.»

«This study suggests that your mouth is more like my mouth than it is like your armpit, in terms of its microbial composition.»

«This technology enables one to study in an isolated and controlled manner the complexity of the microbiome and the role different microbial species play in health and disease.

A new study shows that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies — known as the human microbiome — have the potential to uniquely identify individuals, much like a fingerprint.

Toward that end he pursued studies of small (meiofaunal) grazing animals living within microbial mats and documented the earliest appearance of animal and trace (so - called Ediacaran) fossils in late Precambrian sediments in NE Norway.

At Ames, Farmer turned back to his grad - school interests in paleobiology and sedimentology and, combining them with his interest in microbial communities, found his research niche: the study of microbial biosediments and their relation to early biosphere evolution.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

Different changes to the microbial community of the stomach may explain why related conditions are associated with different risk levels and types of gastric tumor, according to a new study in PLOS Pathogens.

«We used a technique known as high - throughput sequencing to gain an exquisitely detailed view of the relationships between the various strains,» said study co-author Mark Pallen, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Microbial Genomics, Warwick Medical School, the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

However, there's clearly much to learn, particularly in the realm of microbial ecology, from studying the microflora of seemingly mundane items like tree branches,» he says.

In studying this patient's progress, Khoruts was initially surprised to find that there was a nearly complete replacement of the woman's microbial flora with her husband's microbes.

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

In 2009 NIH geneticist Julie Segre published a study showing that physiologically comparable parts of the body host similar microbial ecologies, whereas contrasting areas — say sweaty underarms and dry forearms — have drastically different communities.