Making the Environment Attractive

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  • Brian Schmidt
  • Alexander Baras
  • Emily Cushnie
  • Meng Wang
چکیده

Events VaBio After Hours Adventures Mountain River Raft Trip AFTER Roseanne M. Ford received her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, she came to University of Virginia to continue her work on bacterial chemotaxis, the ability of motile bacteria to direct their migration toward beneficial chemicals and away from detrimental ones. That same year, an oil spill, which occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, (noted as the largest disaster of this type in American history) attracted her attention and inspired her to apply bacterial chemotaxis to environmental bioremediation processes. “Chemotaxis interested me after I read Daniel Koshland’s book” said Dr. Ford, “ in which he described bacterial chemotaxis as a good model to start understanding how humans respond to the environment.”

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تاریخ انتشار 2007