Microbiological Research Elsevier

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Bangladesh has experienced a variety of diseases caused by natural dissemination of an array of pathogenic microorganisms into the environment. While cures for these diseases largely depend on the medication strategies of physicians, determining the reasons for disease persistence as well for the onset of reinfection is also essential. Routine diagnosis of common diseases usually means treatment with a range of appropriate medicines; however, failure of these medications because of the drug resistance of microorganisms accompanied by a lack of alertness about the etiology of diseases often leads to fatal results. The present review reports on emerging diseases in Bangladesh and focuses on associated microbiological research into ongoing diseases including enteric, urinary tract, and malarial complications. The viruses associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and hepatitis are also discussed.

Aim: The aim of this chapter is to critically highlight existing knowledge gaps, obstacles, and research frontiers in groundwater microbial ecology. Main concepts covered: We have identified and discuss below 10 topics where there is an urgent need for microbiological research in groundwater. Main methods covered: We consider the challenges in groundwater microbiology research, including the limited accessibility of aquifers, methods to robustly characterize communities, the importance of microbial interactions, and the current lack of underpinning ecological theory and the testing of basic concepts in groundwater. Conclusion/Outlook: There is enormous opportunity to progress fundamental ecological understanding through further research of microbiology in the terrestrial subsurface.

N2 - Aim: The aim of this chapter is to critically highlight existing knowledge gaps, obstacles, and research frontiers in groundwater microbial ecology. Main concepts covered: We have identified and discuss below 10 topics where there is an urgent need for microbiological research in groundwater. Main methods covered: We consider the challenges in groundwater microbiology research, including the limited accessibility of aquifers, methods to robustly characterize communities, the importance of microbial interactions, and the current lack of underpinning ecological theory and the testing of basic concepts in groundwater. Conclusion/Outlook: There is enormous opportunity to progress fundamental ecological understanding through further research of microbiology in the terrestrial subsurface.

AB - Aim: The aim of this chapter is to critically highlight existing knowledge gaps, obstacles, and research frontiers in groundwater microbial ecology. Main concepts covered: We have identified and discuss below 10 topics where there is an urgent need for microbiological research in groundwater. Main methods covered: We consider the challenges in groundwater microbiology research, including the limited accessibility of aquifers, methods to robustly characterize communities, the importance of microbial interactions, and the current lack of underpinning ecological theory and the testing of basic concepts in groundwater. Conclusion/Outlook: There is enormous opportunity to progress fundamental ecological understanding through further research of microbiology in the terrestrial subsurface.

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Advancements of Microbiology is topical journal for scientists in several microbiological fields and often the place where the first works of young researchers are published. Advancements of Microbiology include review articles from all areas of microbiology that are not printed in other journals. Please send manuscripts with attachments to the editor's e-mail address: editoria...@am-online.org

Due to the great thematic diversity of the articles sent to the editorial office, it is not possible to print monographic volumes. Most of the papers currently published in Advancements of Microbiology are review articles in the field of bacterial physiology, microbial genetics, environmental microbiology, applied microbiology and virology; the work in the field of epidemiology, classification and identification of bacteria and applications of molecular biology techniques in microbiological research are particularly extensive.

The Polish Society of Microbiologists (PSM), formerly the Polish Society of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists, was established in Warsaw on October 31, 1927 at the first Congress of Polish microbiologists. Professor Zygmunt Szymanowski was elected the first President of PSM. The same year, PSM also became cofounder of Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) and since 2005 PSM is a member of European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).

Within over 95 years of activity, 29 Congresses of PSM were organized and 16 professors were elected as Presidents of PSM. About 900 ordinary members and 19 honorary members, associated in 14 PSM branches all over Poland, belong to the Society.

Dafang (Faith) Wang

Assistant Professor

Transposons, also known as "jumping genes", occupy a large fraction of many eukaryotic genomes. The long-term goal of my lab is to study how genomes efficiently silence active transposons and maintain the silencing state of transposons for the genome stability. My lab uses maize as the model system to monitor the activity of transposons to study various epigenetic pathways of silencing. We use transmission genetics, molecular genetics, and sequencing technologies in our projects.

Peter Daniel

Professor

For much of my academic career I have researched how chemosensory stimuli drives behaviors in decapod crustaceans including crabs and lobsters. More recently my lab has been researching how animals without a central nervous system (starfish) are capable of performing directed behaviors such as righting behavior. We have also been studying the distribution of native and invasive crayfish on Long Island with a goal of understanding behavioral and ecological interactions between invasive and native species. Finally I am interested in the behavioral and ecology of brook trout on Long Island. This species were the only native salmonids on Long Island until they virtually disappeared from the area in the last century. In recent years there have been efforts to reintroduce the species. I have received a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to study the movements of juvenile brook trout in a habitat that hosts one of the few spawning populations on Long Island.

Lisa Filippi

Professor

I am interested in elucidating the ecological constraints that favor the evolution of complex parental-care behaviors. My model organisms include several subsocial heteropteran insects. Parental care beyond laying eggs in an appropriate substrate is very rare in insects outside the two truly social orders that include bees, wasps, ants, and termites. The species I work with display extended parental care that includes a variety of complex behaviors, ranging from guarding of the egg mass in a burrow to producing trophic eggs (unfertilized eggs that newly hatched offspring can feed on) and repeatedly transporting food from the host-tree area to the nest for the young. Manipulation studies in the field and the laboratory are used to evaluate the impact of a variety of ecological conditions on the manifestation of these behaviors. With the establishment of a coyote population on Long Island imminent, Dr. Filippi looks forward to carrying out future studies on parental care behaviors on these 'coywolves', which should be a blend of coyote and wolf behaviors. Dr. Filippi and her students will engage in pre-establishment education/advocacy on Long Island.

Kathleen Lynch

Associate Professor

I am a neuroscientist whose research is exceptionally integrative and encompasses many disciplines, including microgenomics, molecular neurophysiology, endocrinology and behavior. I have investigated gene networks, neural networks, neurogenesis, and hormonal mechanisms associated with mate preference behavior in three popular model systems; songbirds, fish and frogs. I am particularly interested in measuring activity-dependent gene expression to examine neurophysiological responses. I have used these genes to answer questions on a variety of levels: from simply marking a neuron's response to a stimulus, to co-localizing these genes with markers that identify cell phenotype, to employing catFISH (compartmental analysis of temporal florescent in situ hybridization) to increase the power of the immediate early gene approach to assess neural activity.

Nicholas Santangelo

Associate Professor

My research goals are to understand the ecological and physiological constraints that underlie animal behavior. From an ecological perspective, I explore behavioral paradigms to provide functional explanations for behavior to reveal evolutionary patterns across taxa. From a physiological perspective, I manipulate and quantify hormones underlying these behaviors to explore hormone function in the context of adaptive behavior. I utilize both laboratory and field studies to explore the ecological context of behavior in fish and other aquatic systems. My field and ecology work has also included local systems like horseshoe crabs including their spawning habits and habitat, and effects of local toxicity. My integrative approach in behavior, neurophysiology, and ecology and the use of taxa with various mating systems, both in the lab and field, provides research opportunities for students with a wide variety of interests and career goals.

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