For the #SciArtSeptember#astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution 🧵🧪🐡👩🏻🔬#histsci
🪵 THE COMPOST LIFE OF MANGANESE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA A cold-tolerant, manganese-oxidizing Pseudomonas from compost helps understand Mn oxidation in plant waste degradation and could be exploited to reclaim Mn in mineral form. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Biogenic Mn oxides have high sorptive capacity and are strong oxidants. These two characteristics make these oxides and the microbes that make them attractive tools for the bioremediation of wastewater and contaminated environments. Identifying MnOB that ...
🦠 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN MANURE GETS CRISPRed CRISPR-Cas is both prevalent and functional in manure. This finding can be leveraged in agricultural settings for targeted killing of bacteria carrying antibiotic resistance genes. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health crisis in human and veterinary medicine. Previous work has shown technologies based on CRISPR-Cas—a bacterial defense system—to be effective in tacklin...
♻️ ACCLIMATING ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS FOR FOOD WASTE CODIGESTION A substrate-specific adaptation strategy pre-acclimated methanogenic bioreactors and improved functional resilience and performance for the codigestion of food waste. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
This study demonstrates, for the first time for GIW co-digestion, how applying similar perturbations to different microbial communities was used to directly identify the causal relationships between microbial community, function, and environment in ...
🪢 A SEA OF HOSTS FOR TICK-BORNE PATHOGENS Larval ticks harboring multiple tick-borne pathogens feed on many avian and animal hosts within a low-biodiversity island setting. This information can guide targeted surveillance and biocontrol efforts. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, babesiosis, and anaplasmosis, pose significant public health burdens. Tick bloodmeal analysis provides a noninvasive sampling method to evaluate tick-host associations and combined with a zoonotic pathogen assay, ...
♻️TWEAKING RuBisCO FOR ENHANCED CO2 CAPTURE BY PURPLE BACTERIA A clever approach to capture CO2 into bioplastics by expressing RuBisCO genes of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle into a promising purple bacterium. By Arpita Bose. Also featured in our cover. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Our planet has been burdened by pollution resulting from the extensive use of petroleum-derived plastics for the last few decades. Since the discovery of biodegradable plastic alternatives, concerted efforts have been made to enhance their bioproduction. ...
THE MICROBIAL WORLD OF SOLITARY 🐝 Solitary bees do not depend on symbiotic gut bacteria at the larval stage, but acquire pollen bacteria to support adult functions such as reproduction, flight performance, and overwintering survival. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
This study investigates the impact of environmentally acquired gut microbes of solitary bee fitness with insights into the microbial ecology of bee and their health. While the symbiotic microbiome is well-studied in social bees, the role of environmental ...
🔆CLIMATE CONTROL OF FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS ON 🥬 Humidity promotes the colonization of diseased leafy greens by the food-borne pathogen Salmonella. This highlights the cumulative impacts of climate change on public health. doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Bacterial leaf spot of lettuce caused by Xanthomonas hortorum pv. vitians is a common threat to leafy green production. The global impact caused by phytopathogens, including X. vitians, is likely to i...
‼️Time for a new @AppEnvMicro issue and the articles that caught my 👁️ for the Spotlight section. Disclaimer: It is getting increasingly difficult to select articles among high quality contributions. Thank you all for sending your best work to us! ☺️ doi.org/10.1128/aem....
Climate-related changes such as increased humidity are expected to exacerbate plant diseases. Dixon et al. (e01311-24) show that humidity additionally promotes the colonization of diseased leafy green...
Come be my colleague in the dept of plant bio at MSU!!!!! This department has been such a supportive and exciting place to be a new professor and mid-Michigan is a great, affordable place to live. jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2056365...
Exciting opportunity in East Lansing, MI for Michigan State University as a Assistant/Associate Professor Positions in Molecular/Cellular Biology of Plants