Environment and Society. A Microbiologist’s perspective
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Course delivered by Ed Harris at Manchester Metropolitan University, 20-21 September 2012. Topics included:
Centre for Genomic Research, Liverpool. 25-27 June 2012. Topics covered included:
Impacts of degraded blanket bog restoration on culturable and non-culturable soil bacterial and fungal biodiversity and spatiality were assessed. Peat sampled from unvegetated peat areas and from 3 restored vegetation classes, remnant vegetation and grass dominated gullies were subjected to culturable microbial enumeration and rDNA based community profiling and pyrosequencing. …
Manchester Metropolitan University, January 2012
Diversity and functioning of soil microbial drivers in peatland ecosystems remain poorly investigated. We report on culture-dependent and -independent characterisation of soil bacterial and fungal communities and primary geospatial relationships identified in bare peat and vegetation mosaics that have resulted from active restoration of degraded peatland in the southern Pennines.
Highlights Development of a novel technology for partial nitrification at ambient temperature. First time to use online NH4-–N measurement as a control parameter for bioreactors. RT-PCR analysis shows the population size of AOB was up to 10% of total bacteria. Intermittent aeration and oxygen-limited conditions sustained partial nitrification. The bioreactor …
Manchester Metropolitan University (Microbes and the carbon cycle in drylands).
Manchester Metropolitan University (DNA Hash-pooling).
Manchester Metropolitan University (Mycorrhiza in tropical rainforest).