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Gavin Collins
10th May

An Grúpa Taighde ar an Éicifiseolaíocht Mhiocróbach

(Collins Group)                    

 

The Microbial Ecophysiology Research Group was founded in 2008 and is concerned with linking the identity (ecology) and in situ function (physiology) of yet-to-be cultivated microbes.

We focus on populations from natural systems and from engineered biofilms, by adopting a Systems Biology approach.

    

One of our main foci is the microbial populations underpinning waste-to-bioenergy systems. We work within the Bioenergy Research Group at the Energy Research Centre, NUI Galway, and alongside the Microbial Ecology Laboratory in the School of Natural Sciences.

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Understanding the ecophysiology of microbial populations and consortia is vital for the development and optimisation of environmental technologies.

Equally, however, the bioreactor technologies used by our colleagues provide ideal conditions for our group to completely control environmental conditions and to characterise the response and development of microbial communities.

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We also work with natural microbial communities sampled from the environment, including deep-sea sediments (with the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen) and groundwater (with Earth & Ocean Science colleagues at NUI Galway).  We monitor the response of the communities in those samples to controlled incubation conditions in the laboratory, by using genetic, proteomic and in situ ecophysiology techniques from the molecular toolbox.

 COLLABORATORS

• Marcel M.M. Kuypers, Dirk de Beer, Gaute Lavik, Moritz Holtappels, Casey Hubert (Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany)
• Jeppe Lund Nielsen (Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Piet N. Lens (UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands)
• Florian Einsiedl, Liam Morrison (Earth & Ocean Science, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway)
• Brian Kelleher (School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University)
• Michael Rodgers (Civil & Environmental Engineering, NUI Galway)
• Vincent O’Flaherty (Microbiology, NUI Galway) 
• Michael O'Connell (Palaeoenvironmental Research Unit, NUI Galway) 
  

      
 

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