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	On this page we will list recent publications on topics relevant to the projects of this year's MICROBIAL 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. Papers discussed during the course: 30.11. Baker's yeast, a model for fungal biofilm formation. 2001. Todd B. Reynolds and Gerald R. Fink. Science, 291: 878-881. presented by Fabrizio Gorla 30.11. Natural conjugative plasmids induce bacterial biofilm development. 2001. Jean-Marc Ghigo. Nature, 412: 442-445. presented by Otto-Martin Willy 30.11. Biofilm, City of Microbes. 2000. Watnick Paul and Kolter Roberto. Journal of Bacteriology. 182(10): 2675-2679. presented by Sebastian Zurbriggen and Kati Seidl 7.12. Polyhydroxyfettsäuren, biologisch abbaubare Kunststoffe aus Bakterien. 1995. Anette Kienle-Burgdorf, Schweiz. Laborzeitschrift 9. p: 306 - 315. Plastic you could eat URL: www.firstscience.com/site/articles/sykes.asp presented by Stefan Bänziger and Nadja Tobler 7.12. Polyhydroxyalkanoate cream substitutes. 1993. Inventor: Manssur Yalpani / United States Patent Nr.5'229'1581, Date: 20.7.93. presented by Nadja Tobler 7.12. Biogenic production of cyanide and its application to gold recovery. 2001. Campbell SC. Olson GJ. Clark TR. McFeters G. Journal of Industrial Microbiol. & Biotechnol. 26 (3) : 134-139. presented by Christina Kägi and Tobias Rosenberger 14.12. The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites. 2000. Reid, R. P. et. al. Letters to Nature, 409: 989-992 presented by Naim Matasci and Hans-Caspar Hürlimann 14.12. Low-Molecular-Weight Sulfonates, a Major Substrate for Sulfate Reducers. 1999. In Marine Microbial Mats. Pieter T. Visscher, Rachel F. Gritzer, and Edward R. Leadbetter. Appl. Envir. Microbiol. Vol. 65: 3272-3278. presented by Naim Matasci and Hans-Caspar Hürlimann
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