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
Morais D
(2016)
Responses of microbial community from tropical pristine coastal soil to crude oil contamination.
in PeerJ
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
Pylro VS
(2014)
Data analysis for 16S microbial profiling from different benchtop sequencing platforms.
in Journal of microbiological methods
| 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 |