In keeping with her interest in microbial processes in the environment, recent work has also focused on the ability of environmental microorganisms to oxidize or to reduce hazardous metals such as arsenic.
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*The subheading " Center for Interfacial Microbial Process Engineering ( 1979 1990 ) " is about the Institute for Chemical and Biological Process Analysis ( IPA ) before it received ERC status in 1990.
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"' Cyclic di-GMP-I riboswitches "'are a class of riboswitch that specifically bind cyclic di-GMP, which is a second messenger that is used in a variety of microbial processes including virulence, motility and biofilm formation.
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For example, the nitrogen gas which makes up 78 % of the earth's atmosphere is unavailable to most organisms, until it is converted to a biologically available form by the microbial process of nitrogen fixation.
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The center was founded in April 1990 as the "'Center for Interfacial Microbial Process Engineering "'with a grant from the Engineering Research Centers ( ERC ) program of the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).
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In a microbial process employing an auxotrophic mutant ( nutritionally requiring mutant ), excess supply of the required nutrient results in abundant cell growth with little accumulation of the desired metabolite due to feedback inhibition and / or end-product repression.
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:: * Thanks, but I'm still not clear why you don't have headings for the " Center for Interfacial Microbial Process Engineering " instead of " Establishment as Engineering Research Center ", and a third heading for " Center for Biofilm Engineering ", either before or after the fifth paragraph in the history section.
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Boetius received her biology degree from the University of Hamburg in 1992, her doctorate in biology from the University of Bremen in 1996, she is also leader of the HGF-MPG Bridge Group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology and leader of the " Microbial Habitat Group " that researches biogeochemistry, transport processes and microbial processes in benthic environments.
