Science News

 
  On this page we will list recent publications on topics relevant to the projects of this year's MICROBIAL EVOLUTION and ECOLOGY course. Please choose what interests you most from the papers listed below or from other sources and bring them up during the Friday seminar discussions. Your questions and comments can be placed in the Discussion Forum. Science Roundup is a compilation of papers from recent issues of Science and Nature which relate to topics discussed during the course.

Papers presented during the course:

24.10.
Seasonal Dynamics of Previously Unknown Fungal Lineages in Tundra Soils
Christopher W. Schadt, Andrew P. Martin, David A. Lipson,
Steven K. Schmidt. Science 301, 2003, 1359 - 1361

and
Neither Cold Nor Snow Stops Tundra Fungi
by Elizabeth Pennisi. Science 301, 2003, 1307
 
presented by
Kurt Hanselmann
       
31.10.
CH4-consuming microorganisms and the formation of carbonate crusts at cold seeps
Giovanni Aloisi, Ioanna Bouloubassi, Sander K. Heijs, Richard D. Pancost, Catherine Pierre, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damste, Jan C. Gottschal, Larry J. Forney, Jean-Marie Rouchy.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 203 (2002) 195-203
and
 
presented by
Davy Depreiter
 
The role ofmicrobes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites
R.P. Reid, P.T. Visscher, A.W. Decho, J.F. Stolz, B.M. Bebout, C. Dupraz, I.G. Macintyre, H.W. Paerl, J.L. Pinckney, L. Prufert-Bebout, T.F. Steppe & D.J. DesMarais.
Nature 406 (2000) 989 - 992
 
presented by
Samuel Wüst
       
14.11.
Experimental Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments: Encapsulation, Growth, and Division
Martin M. Hanczyc, Shelly M. Fujikawa, Jack W. Szostak
Science 302, 2003, 618-622 (24 October)

 
presented by
 
The ecology of anthrax spores: Tough but not invincible
Daniel C. Dragon and Robert P. Rennie
Can.Vet.J. 36, 1995, 295 - 301
and
 
presented by
Sonja Brockmüller


 
Oceans of Archaea - Abundant oceanic Crenarchaeota appear to derive from thermophilic ancestors that invaded low-temperature marine environments
Edward F. DeLong
ASM News 69, 2003, 503-511 (October issue)
 
presented by
Simon Krattinger


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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