from Theron et al. in Nanotechnology in Water Treatment Applications Significant advances in the detection of sequence-specific nucleic acid hybridization have been achieved using microarrays. Microarrays are glass microslides or nylon membranes containing a high density of immobilized nucleic acids (genomic DNA, cDNA or oligonucleotides) in an ordered two-dimensional matrix. Microarrays can be prepared by synthesizing DNA in situ on a glass surface using combinational chemistry or by robotic microdeposition of cDNAs (0.5- to 2-kb) amplified read more ...

A list of ASBMB conferences for 2011 relevant to microbiology and molecular biology. Details of conferences organized by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular read more ...

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from Theron et al. in Nanotechnology in Water Treatment Applications Traditionally, prediction of the presence of human enteric pathogens in water has been achieved by monitoring for established microbial "indicators" of fecal pollution. Not necessarily pathogenic themselves, fecal coliforms, total coliforms, E. coli , enterococci and bacteriophages are all examples of organisms that when present are viewed as predictive of the potential presence of enteric pathogens, since they have the same fecal source as the pathogenic organisms. Tests read more ...

Microbiology Conference List A list of microbiology conferences, meetings, symposia, short courses and congresses worldwide for 2011 . Includes details of conferences of the ASM, Gesellschaft fur Virologie, Society for General Microbiology SGM, EMBO, Gordon Research Conference, Canadian Society of Microbiologists, Swiss Society for Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, IUMS, Keystone Symposia, FEBS, International Society for Infectious Diseases, ESCMID, SFAM Society for Applied Microbiology, Turkish Society of Clinical read more ...

January 2011 January 13 - 15, 2011 ESCV Winter Meeting London, UK Further information European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV) The meeting will have a strong clinical emphasis and the programme will be attractive to virologists, microbiologists, public health physicians and other infection specialists. Suggested reading:   Virology books January 15 - 16, 2011 Physical Virology Ventura, CA, USA Further information Gordon Research Conference Seminar. GRC. The Physical Virology Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar will be held in conjunction with read more ...

The new book on Streptomyces: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology edited by Paul Dyson has been delivered to our distributors and is available for immediate read more ...

Anna-Irini Koukkou (University of Ioannina, Greece) presents a new book on Microbial Bioremediation of Non-metals: Current Research Topics covered include: enzymatic biodegradation reactions; the impact of bioturbation on hydrocarbon dynamics in marine sediments; the structure, function and biodiversity of ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases involved in PAH biodegradation; strategies to engineer PCB-degrading bacteria; PCB-degrading plant-microbe systems strategies; the structure, regulation and diversity of microbial genes encoding read more ...

Kenji Sonomoto and Atsushi Yokota (Kyushu University,Japan and Hokkaido University, Japan, respectively) present a new book on Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bifidobacteria: Current Progress in Advanced Research In this comprehensive book, expert international authors review the most recent cutting-edge research in these areas. Topics include: Lactobacillus genomics; Bifidobacterium gene manipulation technologies; metabolism of human milk oligosaccharides in bifidobacteria; proton-motive metabolic cycles; oxidative stress and oxygen metabolism; read more ...

from Wittwer CT and Farrar JS (2011) in PCR Troubleshooting and Optimization By measuring time, temperature, and fluorescence throughout PCR, real-time 3-dimensional spirals can be acquired and plotted. Software on commercial instruments usually only present selected data. For example, qPCR experiments only acquire fluorescence at one temperature each cycle. Typical melting analysis only acquires fluorescence from one melting curve at the end of amplification. Much more data is available during PCR, and it is likely that this additional data read more ...

from Wittwer CT and Farrar JS (2011) in PCR Troubleshooting and Optimization After the introduction of hydrolysis and hybridization probes, several other probe designs were adapted to, or created for, real-time PCR. Some of these probes increase in fluorescence when their conformation changes with hybridization and may function by hybridization and/or hydrolysis mechanisms depending on the reaction conditions. Hairpin probes, or "molecular beacons" can be monitored in real-time. These probes have a central sequence complementary to the DNA read more ...

from Luo et al (2011) in Microbial Population Genetics Understanding the regulatory mechanisms should allow the examination of engineering pathways with pre-determined expression patterns (i.e. expression is activated by a given compound or in a specific environmental or physiological condition). Metabolic pathways have evolved to execute their function efficiently, while tolerating perturbations, such as changes in environmental parameters or in the physiological status of the cell. Below we describe some of the databases and programs for read more ...

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from Luo et al (2011) in Microbial Population Genetics The advent of DNA microarray technology has greatly expanded our ability to monitor changes in the abundance of transcripts. Such a development has been a milestone in several areas of microbiology. In clinical microbiology, microarrays are used for microorganism detection and identification and gene-expression analysis. DNA microarrays have allowed us to monitor the effects of pathogens on host-cell gene expression in a much greater depth and on a significantly broader scale than read more ...

February 3 - 4, 2011 The Human Microbiome in the Context of Anaerobic Infection London, UK Further information Society for Anaerobic Microbiology (SAM) February 2011 Scientific Meeting Suggested reading: Essentials of Veterinary Parasitology Vaccine Design: Innovative Approaches and Novel Strategies PCR Troubleshooting and Optimization: The Essential Guide Anaerobic Parasitic Protozoa: Genomics and Molecular read more ...