Keep Up with Marine Microorganisms: Second Issue of MaCuMBA Project News Now Available
21 May 2013
Austria
MaCuMBA is a four-year EC Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)-funded project which aims to study unidentified marine microorganisms.
This issue of MaCuMBA Project News features an interview about Work Package 2 (WP2), Innovative approaches for isolating and culturing the uncultured, with its coordinator, Prof Gerard Muyzer of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. The first in the Petri Dish Profiles series of reports on other European projects related to the study of marine microorganisms introduces Micro B3 (Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology), an FP7-funded project that aims to provide researchers with new analytical approaches to marine ecological genomics. The Under the Microscope section provides an in-brief look at some stories relating to marine microorganisms which have been making the news, and in Culture Club we meet some of the scientists from all over Europe working together to achieve the MaCuMBA project’s aims.
Note to Editors
MaCuMBA is led by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and is a joint venture of 23 partner institutions from 11 EU countries with the common aim to uncover the untold diversity of marine microbes using cultivation-dependent strategies. MaCuMBA aims to improve the isolation rate and growth efficiency of marine microorganisms from conventional and extreme habitats by applying innovative methods and using automated high-throughput procedures. AquaTT is the communication and dissemination partner for the project.
Prof Muyzer is available for interview.
For more information and press queries, contact Marieke Reuver, AquaTT Programme Manager, E-mail: marieke@aquatt.ie
Detailed partner profiles are available on request.
This issue of MaCuMBA Project News features an interview about Work Package 2 (WP2), Innovative approaches for isolating and culturing the uncultured, with its coordinator, Prof Gerard Muyzer of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands. The first in the Petri Dish Profiles series of reports on other European projects related to the study of marine microorganisms introduces Micro B3 (Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology), an FP7-funded project that aims to provide researchers with new analytical approaches to marine ecological genomics. The Under the Microscope section provides an in-brief look at some stories relating to marine microorganisms which have been making the news, and in Culture Club we meet some of the scientists from all over Europe working together to achieve the MaCuMBA project’s aims.
Note to Editors
MaCuMBA is led by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and is a joint venture of 23 partner institutions from 11 EU countries with the common aim to uncover the untold diversity of marine microbes using cultivation-dependent strategies. MaCuMBA aims to improve the isolation rate and growth efficiency of marine microorganisms from conventional and extreme habitats by applying innovative methods and using automated high-throughput procedures. AquaTT is the communication and dissemination partner for the project.
Prof Muyzer is available for interview.
For more information and press queries, contact Marieke Reuver, AquaTT Programme Manager, E-mail: marieke@aquatt.ie
Detailed partner profiles are available on request.