Printing soil: a single‐step, high‐throughput method to isolate micro‐organisms and near‐neighbour microbial consortia from a complex environmental sample

Abstract

Traditional high throughput methods for isolating microorganisms from environmental samples such as soil or sediment require pre‐processing steps to remove the living species from their solid‐phase microniche, creating a liquid‐phase sample. This process destroys near‐neighbor relationships that could be crucial to culturing and studying the microorganisms to be isolated.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Nov 26, 2014
Source ID
10.1111/2041-210x.12303

Entities

People

  • Bradley R. Ringeisen
  • Karina Rincon
  • Lisa A. Fitzgerald
  • Peter K. Wu
  • Preston A. Fulmer

Organizations

  • Florida International University
  • National Science Foundation
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Southern Oregon University
  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Molecular Genetics

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biotechnology - Bioremediation