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R/BT-07
Bioremediation of recalcitrant complex carbohydrate biopolymers by a novel marine bacterium
Principal Investigator:
Ronald WeinerStart/End Year:
1999 - 2002Institution:
University of Maryland, College ParkTopic(s):
- Oysters
Description:
To assess degradative enzyme activity of Alteromonas 2-40 (2-40) by: a) Assaying degradative activity in sole and multiple carbon sources (substrates), e.g. combinations of agarose, chitin and alginate (a condition 2-40 is likely to encounter in nature); b) Assessing enzyme activity of cells, grown in combinations of these complex carbohydrates in time course and as to culture fraction (e.g. supernatant, membrane and whole cells).
Funding Start Year
1999
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
