Ecological perspectives on synthetic biology: insights from microbial population biology. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2015 The metabolic capabilities of microbes are the basis for many major biotechnological advances, exploiting microbial diversity by selection or engineering of single strains. However, there are limits to the advances that can be achieved with single strains, and attention has turned toward the metabolic potential of consortia and the field of synthetic ...
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Population-based microbial computing: a third wave of synthetic biology? [PDF]
International Journal of General Systems, 2014 Synthetic biology is an emerging research field, in which engineering principles are applied to natural, living systems. A major goal of synthetic biology is to harness the inherent “biological nanotechnology” of living cells for the purposes of computation, production or diagnosis.
Martyn Amos
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Biological evolution: Lessons to be learned from microbial population biology and genetics
Research in Microbiology, 2004 This issue is dedicated to the memory of Michel Blot, who died in a tragic accident in the French Alps in September 2002, bringing his fruitful scientific activities to a sudden end. After having completed his basic and doctoral education in population biology of eukaryotic organisms, Michel Blot joined my laboratory in 1989 with the intention of ...
Werner Arber
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New website for the Microbial Population Biology Department
, 2019 If you have not seen it, check out the all new website of the Microbial Population Biology Department. It provides in-depth information about all ongoing research projects in the Department and its affiliated Research Groups. There’s also a section on computational pipelines and the pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 knowledge base (prototype reachable from
Carsten Fortmann-Grote
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Neurospora from natural populations: Population genomics insights into the Life history of a model microbial Eukaryote [PDF]
, 2020 The ascomycete filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa played a historic role in experimental biology and became a model system for genetic research. Stimulated by a systematic effort to collect wild strains initiated by Stanford geneticist David Perkins ...
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Effect of irrigation with municipal water or sewage effluent on the biology of soil cores [PDF]
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 1978 Abstract Microbial populations and respiratory activity are reported for topsoils (0–10 cm) of 15 cm diameter cores (depth 50 cm) of 10 pasture soils representative of soils of North Island, New Zealand, after 15 months' irrigation with either municipal tapwater or unchlorinated sewage effluent from a biological filtration plant.
Esme M. Guy +3 more
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Improving the availability of biopesticides : an interdisciplinary research project [PDF]
, 2008 There is a need for new, biologically-based crop protection products to serve as alternatives to or to complement synthetic chemical pesticides. An interdisciplinary research team from the natural and social sciences considered whether regulatory ...
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Extending an eco-evolutionary understanding of biofilm-formation at the air-liquid interface to community biofilms [PDF]
, 2020 Growing bacterial populations diversify to produce a number of competing lineages. In the Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 model system, Wrinkly Spreader mutant lineages, capable of colonising the air-liquid interface of static microcosms by biofilm ...
Jerdan, Robyn +4 more
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Microbial metabolism: optimal control of uptake versus synthesis [PDF]
, 2014 Microbes require several complex organic molecules for growth. A species may obtain a required factor by taking up molecules released by other species or by synthesizing the molecule.
Frank, Steven A.
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Considering Intra-individual Genetic Heterogeneity to Understand Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2019 In this chapter, I am concerned with the concept of Intra-individual Genetic Hetereogeneity (IGH) and its potential influence on biodiversity estimates. Definitions of biological individuality are often indirectly dependent on genetic sampling -and vice ...
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