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Getting the timing right for artificial microbiome selection

Additives and contaminants of plastics

Microbial community sequencing: what is it and why do we use it?

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Getting the timing right for artificial microbiome selection

“Understanding microbial community dynamics to improve optimal microbiome selection” – that’s the title of my first paper (which I’m very...

Additives and contaminants of plastics

Plastics have been known for a long time to be able to concentrate toxic chemicals, and sometimes these can be up to a million times more...

Microbial community sequencing: what is it and why do we use it?

I often find myself trying to explain what exactly I mean by sequencing, particularly when I talk about sequencing whole microbial...

Marine plastics: food or a free ride?

Plastics are known to be colonised by microorganisms within hours of reaching the oceans. The communities of colonising microorganisms,...

A little introduction...

Marine plastics, can microbes "eat" them? (Picture: California, USA. Taken by me.) I'm Robyn, a PhD student at the University of Warwick....

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