Philippa Kaur

We believe that the ABCD conference format will not only connect people but also create trust within the scientific community, enabling better exchange of ideas and increased impact in working towards solutions, be it the effects of global climate change, regional biodiversity loss, or in any other field of research. We recently tested this format […] More

To the Editor — It has been argued that that we are currently facing the sixth mass extinction event1, and the ubiquitous use of chemicals is one major driver for this loss of biodiversity2. Ecotoxicology, the estimation of environmental risks imposed by chemicals, is therefore an essential backbone for adequate mitigation efforts by stakeholders. However, […] More

Construction of tricolor fluorescent reporter strains Tricolor fluorescent reporters were constructed in the marine model organism R. pomeroyi DSS-3 (wild-type strain, a gift from Prof. M. A. Moran, University of Georgia) to visually report expression of DMSP degradation genes (dddW and dmdA). DddW was chosen due to its strong upregulation response to DMSP reported in […] More

1. Heluf, G. Soil and water conservation practices (tied ridges and planting methods) on cultivated lands of Eastern Ethiopian Highlands: Experience of soil and water research program, Alemaya University. Soil Science Technical Bulletin No. 2. Department of Plant Sciences, Alemaya (2005). 2. Asnakew,W. Soil Fertility and Management in the Drylands. 1. National Workshop on Dryland […] More

Genomic similarity within bacterial populations is spatially organized across a meadow Starting with an undereplicated but quality filtered dataset of 3215 draft quality genomes assembled from samples collected from across the meadow [29], we calculated all pairwise genome-wide average nucleotide identities (ANI) and alignment coverages (roughly analogous to shared gene content; Fig. 1b). We observed a […] More