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Category: Microbes

Expeditions Life At Sea Microbes Scientist!

Scientist In Residence: Beth Orcutt Introduces Herself

Dr. M June 8, 2011 Beth OrcuttScientist In ResidenceWorld Ocean Day

Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and…

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Microbes New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea

Holly Bik May 14, 2011 16SarchaeaBacteriaDNAhigh-throughput sequencinghydrotermal ventLost CityMicrobesrRNA

I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business.  (Seriously, people,…

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Ecology Microbes New Species Organisms

Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans

Holly Bik April 26, 2011 454DNAIlluminametagenomicsMicrobesRB Editor's Selectionsequencing

If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing.  Frankly, I’m a…

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Adaptations Conservation & Environment Microbes New Species Oil Spills Organisms Uncategorized

Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift

Dr. M February 18, 2011

via Toxic blob drifting in Gulf mystifies scientists | HeraldTribune.com. Just off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdido Key, an underwater mass of dead…

View More Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift
Adaptations Biology Environmental Sciences Microbes New Research Organisms

Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Diatoms and X-ray Whosamagidgets

Archie Teuthis January 21, 2011 diatomsforamsironScientist In Residence

In a recent paper, de Jonge et al used x-ray fluorescence tomography to give us a new perspective on how diatoms put together those phenomenally…

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Environmental Sciences Evolution Geology Microbes New Research New Species Uncategorized

Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine

Dr. M November 21, 2010 basltbiospherecrustDNAGeologymassifmicrobialNorth Atlanticridge

A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth.  The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…

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Adaptations Microbes Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!

Dr. M September 16, 2010 acidbicarbonateformateglycolysisholy shit!hydrogenThermococcus

The basic energy molecule for life is ATP, adenosine triphosphate.  It fuels all those cellular reactions that life needs.  To produce one mol of ATP…

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Industry & Government Microbes Oil Spills

Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf

Dr. M August 24, 2010 BPconflict of interestGulf of MexicomicrobialOil Spillplume

The internets are a buzz with a new paper published in Science. You may recall I covered the new paper by Camilli et al. in…

View More Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
Carnivals & Link Love Microbes

Adopt a Microbe From the Deep

Dr. M July 21, 2010 Bacteriadeep biosphereJOIDES ResolutionMicrobenitrateocean drilling programsulfur

As part of the Expedition 327 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program aboard the ocean drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution, Adopt a Microbe is unleashed!  From the website……

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Conservation & Environment Environmental Sciences Geology Microbes New Research

Ocean Warming Melts Methane Hydrates Which Screws Us All

Dr. M July 7, 2010 Arcticcarbon cycleclimate changeglobal warmingmethanemethane hydratesMicrobesSediment

That’s pretty much the message of new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Large deposits of methane hydrates, i.e. methane ice, occur naturally in the seafloor…

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