Subsurface hydrocarbon degradation strategies in low- and high-sulfate coal seam communities identified with activity-based metagenomics

Autor: Hannah D. Schweitzer, Heidi J. Smith, Elliott P. Barnhart, Luke J. McKay, Robin Gerlach, Alfred B. Cunningham, Rex R. Malmstrom, Danielle Goudeau, Matthew W. Fields

Publikováno v: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2022)

Abstract Environmentally relevant metagenomes and BONCAT-FACS derived translationally active metagenomes from Powder River Basin coal seams were investigated to elucidate potential genes and functional groups involved in hydrocarbon degradation to me

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Algal amendment enhances biogenic methane production from coals of different thermal maturity

Autor: George A. Platt, Katherine J. Davis, Hannah D. Schweitzer, Heidi J. Smith, Matthew W. Fields, Elliott P. Barnhart, Robin Gerlach

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 14 (2023)

The addition of small amounts of algal biomass to stimulate methane production in coal seams is a promising low carbon renewable coalbed methane enhancement technique. However, little is known about how the addition of algal biomass amendment affects

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/04e3428aeb4346e8ad3a4f630b8b2095

Mechanism Across Scales: A Holistic Modeling Framework Integrating Laboratory and Field Studies for Microbial Ecology

Autor: Lauren M. Lui, Erica L.-W. Majumder, Heidi J. Smith, Hans K. Carlson, Frederick von Netzer, Matthew W. Fields, David A. Stahl, Jizhong Zhou, Terry C. Hazen, Nitin S. Baliga, Paul D. Adams, Adam P. Arkin

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 12 (2021)

Over the last century, leaps in technology for imaging, sampling, detection, high-throughput sequencing, and -omics analyses have revolutionized microbial ecology to enable rapid acquisition of extensive datasets for microbial communities across the

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Janthinobacterium CG23_2: Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Enhanced Environmental Sensing and Transcriptional Regulation for Adaptation to Life in an Antarctic Supraglacial Stream

Autor: Markus Dieser, Heidi J. Smith, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj, Christine M. Foreman

Publikováno v: Microorganisms, Vol 7, Iss 10, p 454 (2019)

As many bacteria detected in Antarctic environments are neither true psychrophiles nor endemic species, their proliferation in spite of environmental extremes gives rise to genome adaptations. Janthinobacterium sp. CG23_2 is a bacterial isolate from

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Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Efficacy of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine, Rhamnolipids, and Usnic Acid—Novel Approaches to Fight Food-Borne Pathogens

Autor: Sabina Purkrtova, James N. Wilking, Ondrej Chlumsky, Kristen A. Brileya, Heidi J. Smith, Jitka Viktorova, Albert E. Parker, Katerina Demnerova, Hana Michova, Pavel Ulbrich

Publikováno v: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume 22
Issue 21
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 22, Iss 11307, p 11307 (2021)

In the food industry, the increasing antimicrobial resistance of food-borne pathogens to conventional sanitizers poses the risk of food contamination and a decrease in product quality and safety. Therefore, we explored alternative antimicrobials N-Ac

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