UK-Brazil workshop on metagenomics for sustainable agriculture and biotechnology
Lead Research Organisation:
Rothamsted Research
Department Name: Agro-Ecology
Abstract
Brazil
People |
ORCID iD |
| Penny Hirsch (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Pylro V
(2014)
Data analysis for 16S microbial profiling from different benchtop sequencing platforms
in Journal of Microbiological Methods
Pylro VS
(2014)
Brazilian Microbiome Project: revealing the unexplored microbial diversity--challenges and prospects.
in Microbial ecology
Pylro VS
(2016)
Misguided phylogenetic comparisons using DGGE excised bands may contaminate public sequence databases.
in Journal of microbiological methods
Morais D
(2016)
Responses of microbial community from tropical pristine coastal soil to crude oil contamination.
in PeerJ
| Description | Links with Brazilian microbial ecologists have lead to two PhD students and two postdoctoral scientists spending 1 year with our group at Rothamsted Research and to continued collaboration including further BBSRC-funded joint project and proposals. The Brazilian Microbiome Project was developed by Brazilian attendees including Victor Pylro who spend a year in our group as a PhD student. |
| Exploitation Route | Links with Brazil in this area are being developed and extended by several of the meeting attendees and at Rothamsted we are applying for a substantial joint project (BBSRC-Embrapa) to explore the importance of teh rhizosphere microbiome |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| URL | http://www.brmicrobiome.org/ |
| Description | Invited participant in AgMicrobiomes, NSF-funded workshop held in the Asilomar conference centre in California, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Invited to take part in AgMicrobiomes workshop in the USA, organised to discuss the best approaches for obtaining funding for microbiome research in the field of crop science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | member of the Microbiology Society Microbiome Expert Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An expert working group set up by the Microbiology Society which has organised a stakeholder workshop and is drawing up a document to advise government and funding agencies on the important of microbiome research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |