The Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge aims to spur the development of new tools and methods that catalyze discovery in
understanding microbial function.
Submit your ideas for groundbreaking experimental tools and methods for
understanding microbial function.
The focus of the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge is to develop new tools and methods that specifically catalyze discovery in
understanding microbial function.
This Ideas Challenge invites the broad scientific community — including microbiologists, nanoscientists, neuroscientists, engineers, chemists, materials scientists, physicists and others — to submit innovative, blue - sky, and aspirational ideas for novel experimental tools and methods for
understanding microbial function.
The Kavli Ideas Challenge invites the broad scientific community — including microbiologists, nanoscientists, neuroscientists, engineers, chemists, materials scientists, physicists and others — to submit their ideas for groundbreaking experimental tools and methods for
understanding microbial function.
Not exact matches
As ecosystems of the human environment change during development, pregnancy, or with changing diets, which bacterial species remain or how these
microbial species
function may shift is slowly becoming
understood.
«By
understanding how microbes work and modifying the environments where they
function, we can eventually engineer
microbial communities to enhance soil productivity.
University of British Columbia researchers may have discovered a key to
understanding the constantly changing distribution of
microbial species in the world's oceans — classify microorganisms by their biochemical
function, rather than by their taxonomy.
A University of British Columbia mathematician may have discovered a key to
understanding the constantly changing distribution of
microbial species in the world's oceans — classify microorganisms by their biochemical
function, rather than by their taxonomy.
In 2016, the broad scientific community was invited to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at
understanding microbial interactions and
function from new perspectives.
«I view the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge as a catalyst, a program that brings new approaches and new people into the field to rapidly increase our
understanding of
microbial communities»
functions and mechanisms,» said Tim Donohue, Past President, ASM.
This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at
understanding microbial interactions and
function from new perspectives.
Recent discoveries have revealed that the vast majority of life on our planet is
microbial; however, still lacking is an
understanding of how microbes
function and the role that specific microbes play in regulating host physiology and health.
The focus of the Microbiome Ideas Challenge is the development of new tools and methods that will help transition the field of microbiome research from correlative studies — i.e., genomics - driven
microbial censusing efforts — to causal
understanding of
microbial function.
Bailey was also a key researcher in the
Microbial Communities Initiative, linking microbial structure and function to soil physical structure to better understand how microbial communities function with
Microbial Communities Initiative, linking
microbial structure and function to soil physical structure to better understand how microbial communities function with
microbial structure and
function to soil physical structure to better
understand how
microbial communities function with
microbial communities
function within soils.
In dogs and cats we have some knowledge of the structure of microbiomes and we now need a greater
understanding in pets of
microbial function, host - microbe interactions and the role of nutrition.
Didi Pershouse is the author of The Ecology of Care: medicine, agriculture, money, and the quiet power of human and
microbial communities as well as
Understanding Soil Health and Watershed
Function.