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 Microbes and the environment - special issue of the Journal of Basic Microbiology
 Read original research papers and short communications that cover an astonishing range of microbial environments in this special issue (FREELY AVAILABLE).
Articles provide insight into possible new applications including microbially aided bioremediation and the use of regulatory pathways for specific gene expression in biotechnology strains and include:
Pioneer colonizer microorganisms in biofilm formation on galvanized steel in a simulated recirculating cooling-water system
Biodegradation of diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) by Bacillus sp. SB-007
Access the special issue at www.jbm-journal.com.
Systematic Research Fund is open for applications
The SRF fund is jointly administer by the councils of the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association.
Applications of all nationalities are welcome and need not be members of either the Systematics Association or the Linnean Society of London. Typical activities supported include contributions to fieldwork expenditure, the purchase of scientific equipment or expertise (e.g. buying time on analytical equipment), specimen preparation (including the cost of temporary technical assistance), and contributions to publication costs. Projects of a more general or educational nature will also be considered, provided that they include a strong systematics component. Typical activities not supported include attendance at scientific meetings and contributions to student maintenance or tuition fees. The fund does not provide payments for Bench Fees and projects already substantially funded by other bodies may be disadvantaged.
Successful projects are selected by a panel of six systematists who represent a wide range of conceptual interests and taxonomic groups. The value of any single award will not exceed £1500.
Applications deadline is the 31st of January. Decisions will be posted March-April. Please read the "Guidelines for applying for SRF funding" before completing the online application form below. Please note that only applications made using the form below are acceptable.
Application forms are accessible at: http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=3D331 or http://www.systass.org/awards/.
Call for articles: International Journal of Microbiology
The International Journal of Microbiology, which aims to provide a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of microbiology, is calling for article submission.
International Journal of Microbiology will be published using an open access publication model, meaning that all interested readers will be able to freely access the journal online without the need for a subscription. Moreover, all published articles will be made freely available on PubMed Central, fulfilling the requirements of the new NIH open access mandate. International Journal of Microbiology has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal will maintain high academic standards and have a broad international coverage. A full list of editors can be found on the journal's website at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmb/editors.html. Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmb/. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.
Importanti riconoscimenti nei congressi S.It.E. e A.I.O.L.
Domenico D'Alelio (IASMA Research and Innovation Centre di S. Michele a/Adige) ha vinto il premio Marchetti come miglior comunicazione orale al XIX Congresso S.It.E. (Bolzano, 15-18/09/09) con il contributo dal titolo "Population biology of planktonic microbes: chaos, syncrony and a new perspective from a biennal diatom". Al successivo Congresso A.I.O.L. (Venezia, Isola di San Servolo, 22-25/09/09), il premio come miglior presentazione è stato assegnato a Gianluca Corno (CNR-ISE e Univ. di Zurigo) per il lavoro dal titolo "Ultraviolet radiation modulates bacterivory promoting filamentation in natural bacterial assemblages". Il premio come miglior poster è stato invece assegnato a Mirko Magagnini (Univ. Politecnica delle Marche) per il lavoro "Viral production and prokaryotic community in mud vulcanoes ecosystems". Questi importanti riconoscimenti confermano la crescente affermazione dell'ecologia microbica nel panorama scientifico italiano.
Pubblicati gli Impact Factors 2008
Ecco una lista delle principali riviste che pubblicano articoli nel campo dell'ecologia microbica con l'IF relativo all'anno 2008:
Nature (IF = 31.4), Science (28.1), Nature Rev Microbiology (14.3), TRENDS in Ecol and Evol (11.9), PLoS Biology (12.7), PNAS (9.6), Ecology Letters (9.4), Current Opinion in Microbiology (7.5), TRENDS in Microbiology (6.1), Molecular Ecology (5.3), ISME Journal (5.0), Environmental Microbiology (4.7), Ecology (4.9), American Naturalist (4.6), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (3.8), Limnology and Oceanography (3.7), Oikos (3.0), FEMS Microbiol Ecology (3.3), Oecologia (3.0), Journal of Phycology (2.8), Microbial Ecology (2.9), Freshwater Biology (2.7), MEPS (2.7), Aquatic Microbial Ecology (2.7), Journal of Limnology (0.7), Harmful Algae (2.7), FEMS Ecol Letters (2.0), Journal of Microbiol Methods (2.0), Journal of Plankton Research (1.7), Hydrobiologia (1.4).
L'eccellente inizio dell'ISME Journal, che era comunque previsto e lanciato da una gran mole di rumors nei laboratori di ecologia microbica di tutto il mondo, non può essere ridotto alla semplice considerazione che i giornali pubblicati dal gruppo Nature (e l'ISME Journal è tra questi) hanno sempre una grande distribuzione e quindi un alto IF a prescindere dal resto. La scelta coraggiosa dell'ISME di separarsi, ormai alcuni anni fa, dal giornale storico della società (Microbial Ecology) era stata vista con scetticismo da molti, e nemmeno l'altissima qualità dei contributi apparsi sui primi numeri dell'ISME J. aveva scalfito questa iniziale diffidenza del mondo scientifico. La scelta poi di piazzare il giornale nella categoria ISI "ecology", dove spicca già nei primissimi posti, è una scelta editoriale di grande effetto ma anche una scelta politica che non può passare inosservata in un mondo, quello dell'ecologia microbica, da sempre diviso in cortili e orticelli, purtroppo molte volte del tutto isolati tra loro, anche in Italia. Questo passo, forte, dell'ISME, deve essere da stimolo, per tutti gli ecologi microbici, a dimenticare le categorie a cui storicamente fanno riferimento ed a considerare l'ecologia microbica per quello che ormai è: una grande disciplina a se stante, tanto interdisciplinare quanto indipendente!
Salviamo il Kewalo Lab!
La paventata chiusura del Laboratorio di Kewalo (Hawaii) è un duro colpo per la comunità scientifica dei biologi marini, e di chi, anche ecologo microbico, sia interessato agli studi sulle barriere coralline. I ricercatori del posto propongono a tutti di inviare una e-mail al rettore dell'Università di Hawaii,
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al fine di sensibilizzarlo sull'argomento. Di seguito un modello di quanto devrebbe esserci scritto, con un link ad un quotidiano locale che ricostruisce la storia del laboratorio e dei fatti più recenti: non lasciamo soli i nostri colleghi hawaiani!
Dear Dr. McClain, I am writing to express my dismay over the recent decision by Gary Ostrander, vice chancellor for research and graduate education and interim director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center to close Kewalo Marine Lab.
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This move appears to be uninformed, considering the importance of the world's oceans to humans, the vast potential of the marine environment in biological studies and current ecological problems that threaten the unprecedented biodiversity and untapped knowledge in the world's oceans. Marine Labs are unique places where most of the world's Marine Biological Research is conducted.
At Kewalo Marine Lab, scientific advances in genomics and marine exploration are applied in novel and creative ways to understanding the marine environment and biological organisms that live within it. Kewalo Marine Lab is known world-wide for cutting edge research on marine research on a variety of topics, including coral biology, larval biology, marine ecology and evolution. The labs have hosted many scientists over the years, who have studied Hawaiian plants and animals, contributing to the understanding of the near shore environment in Hawaii.
I urge you to reconsider this short-sighted decision and work with Kewalo scientists to find a solution to keep the marine lab open and carrying out it's mission. Aloha.
Metagenomica: un bel poster su Nature
Anne Jurkowski and Jo Handelsman
Metagenomics is a powerful tool that can be used to analyse microbial communities regardless of the ability of member organisms to be cultured in the laboratory. Metagenomics is based on the genomic analysis of microbial DNA that is extracted directly from communities present in samples such as soil, water or faeces. This technology - genomics on a huge scale - will probably lead to major advances in medicine, agriculture, energy production and bioremediation. Metagenomics could unlock the massive uncultured microbial diversity present in the environment to provide new molecules for therapeutic and biotechnological applications. This poster provides an overview of the technology and applications of metagenomics.
Deep viral impact: Virus infections in deep-sea microbes feed the world's largest ecosystem
 Un breve riassunto dell'articolo pubblicato du Nature da Roberto Danovaro et al. sul numero 454 di Nature, settemre 2008: Deep-sea sediments contain large reservoirs of carbon in the form of microbial biomass, and the dynamics of this ecosystem are only now being established. A paper in last week's Nature showed that Archaea predominate over Bacteria in an extensive sediment prokaryote community. This week Danovaro et al. report on the impact of viral infections in this ecosystem. Data from 232 sediment samples show that virus production is very high. Viral infections cause the abatement of over 80% of prokaryotic biomass production - close to 100% at depths below 1,000 metres - thereby releasing huge amounts of dissolved organic carbon into the deep seas. In waters otherwise short of resources this injection of nutrients is particularly significant. Viruses therefore appear to play a major role in global biogeochemical cycles, deep-sea metabolism and overall functioning of the largest ecosystem of our biosphere.
Call for articles: International Journal of Microbiology
The newly launched International Journal of Microbiology, which aims to provide a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of microbiology, is calling for article submission.
International Journal of Microbiology will be published using an open access publication model, meaning that all interested readers will be able to freely access the journal online without the need for a subscription. Moreover, all published articles will be made freely available on PubMed Central, fulfilling the requirements of the new NIH open access mandate. International Journal of Microbiology has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal will maintain high academic standards and have a broad international coverage. A full list of editors can be found on the journal's website at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmb/editors.html. Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmb/. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.
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