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 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
Pylro VS
(2014)
Brazilian Microbiome Project: revealing the unexplored microbial diversity--challenges and prospects.
in Microbial ecology
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 |