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Microorganisms constitute the vast majority of the diversity of life on planet Earth, and perform crucial functions ranging from carbon fixation, biogeochemical cycling and degradation of toxic waste to the maintenance of healthy function in the mammalian gut. We are interested in the basic ecological processes which determine the diversity, functionality and variability in natural microbial communities and in model laboratory systems, and in applying this basic knowledge to improving the performance of microbial devices such as anaerobic digestors [Vicky Hu and Martina Dajak with the UK Biochar Research Centre (Dr. Ondrej Mašek) and Carbogenics Ltd.] as well as in the mammalian intestine. We study such communities using modern genomic, metataxonomic and metagenomic techniques based on next-generation DNA sequencing, proteomics, fingerprinting techniques and subsequent pure-culture isolation, as well as modelling microbial communities in collaboration with Dr. Rosalind Allen (School of Physics & Astronomy).
Being able to engineer microbial communities for improved function will depend on the isolation and characterisation of novel microbial species and the partners they interact with in their natural environments. To this end, we are developing a project to isolate novel methanogenic Archaea with both neutralphilic and acidophilic lifestyles from freshwater sediments (Michael McDonald in collaboration with Dr. James Chong [University of York]). The eventual goal of this work is to enhance the productivity of anaerobic digestor systems using synthetic ecology.
Being able to engineer microbial communities for improved function will depend on the isolation and characterisation of novel microbial species and the partners they interact with in their natural environments. To this end, we are developing a project to isolate novel methanogenic Archaea with both neutralphilic and acidophilic lifestyles from freshwater sediments (Michael McDonald in collaboration with Dr. James Chong [University of York]). The eventual goal of this work is to enhance the productivity of anaerobic digestor systems using synthetic ecology.
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MSYSTEMSno. 1 (2024): e0036623-e0036623
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Science of The Total Environment (2021): 146796-146796
Craig Watkins,Dave Bartley,Burcu Ergün,Büşra Yıldızhan,Tracy Ross-Watt,Alison Morrison, Maria Rosales Sanmartín,Fiona Strathdee,Leigh Andrews,Andrew Free
Ruminantsno. 1 (2021): 31-45
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