The clues gathered by microbial ecologist Kate Scow were 28 soil samples collected from crop fields in the Central Valley.
In 2002, microbiologist Kim Lewis, along with his colleague at Northeastern University in Boston, microbial ecologist Slava Epstein, described a new technique for coaxing bacteria to grow: Put soil samples into tiny chambers sandwiched between permeable membranes and return these contraptions to the ground.
But, just a few months after he arrived at his new institution—Indiana University (IU), Bloomington in 2013, the microbial ecologist found himself spending an afternoon answering questions from two USDA officials because he had transported international soil samples across state lines.
To figure out which ones including worms and fungi were present, Metcalf and Rob Knight, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues used metagenomics, a process of isolating and sequencing DNA from soil and corpse samples.
The patient was suffering from severe diarrhea, Janet Jansson, a microbial ecologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told me.
"It looks like maybe BP caved," said Gary M. King, a microbial ecologist at Louisiana State University.
But, for the marine microbial ecologist Forest Rohwer, a professor at San Diego State University, 2015 is also the Year of the Phage.
In 2011, Dunn and two of his colleagues, Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Holly Menninger, the director of public science at N.C.
For the past four years, Dunn and two of his colleagues — Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Holly Menninger, the director of public science at N.C.
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a microbial ecologist, generally interested in the connections between microbes and biogeochemical cycling.
