Environmental Microbiology

Download the following lectures now:

Deciphering microbial community dynamics, from genomes to biomes
with guest speaker Prof. Edward F. DeLong

Climate, Oceans, Global Warming and Cholera
with guest speaker Dr. Rita R. Colwell

Leading scientists in the field of environmental microbiology consider the technical and conceptual developments that they believe will drive innovative research and open new vistas over the next few years.

Crystal Ball articles are freely available to download here

Special issues on the following topics have recently been published in Environmental Microbiology:

Pseudomonas (June 2010)
Guest Editors: Burkhard Tummler, Victor de Lorenzo, Alain Filloux and Joyce Loper

Environmental Viruses: Shaping the biosphere (November 2009)
Guest Editors: Forest Rohwer, David Prangishvili and Debbie Lindell

Read the latest MiniReviews from Environmental Microbiology:

Pseudomonas fluorescens orchestrates a fine metabolic-balancing act to counter aluminium toxicity
Joseph Lemire, Ryan Mailloux, Christopher Auger, Daniel Whalen, Vasu D. Appanna

Biofilms: the environmental playground of Legionella pneumophila
Priscilla Declerck

The bacterial genus Collimonas: mycophagy, weathering and other adaptive solutions to life in oligotrophic soil environments
Johan H. J. Leveau, Stéphane Uroz, Wietse de Boer

A call for standardized classification of metagenome projects
Natalia Ivanova, Susannah G. Tringe, Konstantinos Liolios, Wen-Tso Liu, Norman Morrison, Philip Hugenholtz, Nikos C. Kyrpides

Selection to sequence: opportunities in fungal genomics
Scott E. Baker

Is the hope for a cellulosic biofuel a lot of rot?
Jana U'Ren

Web alerts

An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology

Biosurfactants
Lawrence P. Wackett

Microbial stress responses
Lawrence P. Wackett

Biodegradation by microbial consortia
Lawrence P. Wackett

Microbial cocultures in the lab and the environment
Lawrence P. Wackett