Microbial Diversity-Sustaining Earth and Industry

Ecology and industrial microbiology: Microbial diversity - sustaining the Earth and industry.

Larry’s research focuses on biocatalysis and biodegradation. Laboratory studies are centered on microbial catabolic enzymes; complementary informatics projects revolve around the University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database, http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/ index.html. Industrial microbiology exploits the ecological adaptations that microorganisms have developed to communicate with and...

Sustaining Earth ’ s biodiversity

Sustaining an Industry Obsession

September–October 2002 0740-7475/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE DEVICE SCALING has long been an accepted mantra, even an obsession, in the semiconductor industry, and if recent predictions are true, the march of deep-submicron (DSM) devices into the nanoscale era will continue. Process and device engineers will somehow find a way to overcome the looming technical challenges, just like they always have f...

Sustaining Rare Marine Microorganisms: Macroorganisms As Repositories and Dispersal Agents of Microbial Diversity

Recent analyses revealed that most of the biodiversity observed in marine microbial communities is represented by organisms with low abundance but, nonetheless essential for ecosystem dynamics and processes across both temporal and spatial scales. Surprisingly, few studies have considered the effect of macroorganism-microbe interactions on the ecology and distribution dynamics of rare microbial...

Microbial Diversity: Genetic Diversity Vs Functional Diversity

Diversity is the main descriptor of community structure and is a determining factor in the dynamics and function of ecological communities [1]. However, the latter implicitly differs based on the different types of organisms and their relative abundance within the community which is considered to be significant [2]. Research in microbial ecology focuses on the study of microbial community dynam...