Eoin L. Brodie

TL;DR: The results of these experiments demonstrate that amendment with the pHRC and MRC forms result in effective removal of Cr(VI) from solution most likely by both direct (enzymatic) and indirect (microbially generated reductant) mechanisms.

TL;DR: Test the hypothesis that substantial microbial immigration occurs along a transect (raw influent, Trickling filter biofilm, trickling filter effluent, and activated sludge) at the same full-scale wastewater treatment plant and provide compelling evidence that substantial immigration between coupled process units occurs and may exert significant influence over microbial community dynamics within staged bioreactors.

TL;DR: The novel diversity of these Icelandic microbial communities was supported by the finding that up to 46% of clones displayed <85% sequence identities to sequences currently deposited in the RDP database.

TL;DR: Pelosinus spp. are fermentative firmicutes that were recently reported to be a prominent member of microbial communities at contaminated subsurface sites in multiple locations as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: High-throughput screening assays for function-based characterization of activities involved in plant polymer decomposition from environmental metagenomic libraries are developed and demonstrate how functional screening of metagenomics libraries can be used to connect microbial functionality to community composition and, as a result, complement large-scale metagenome sequencing efforts.