My research focuses on understanding the interactions and dynamics between crop systems and soil microbiomes in both natural and engineered systems. My overarching goal is to bridge the gap between biotechnology, agriculture, and engineering in order to understand how rhizospheres are affected by both soil chemistry and exposure to emerging contaminants of concern, with the ultimate goal of man...

Author details Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and Metabolism, Biotechnology Center, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Medical Diagnostic Center, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Laboratory for Public Healt...

Pharmaceutical biotechnology has a long tradition and is rooted in the last century, first exemplified by penicillin and streptomycin as low molecular weight biosynthetic compounds. Today, pharmaceutical biotechnology still has its fundamentals in fermentation and bioprocessing, but the paradigmatic change affected by biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences has led to an updated definition. T...

Cindy Van Humbeeck,1* Tom Cornelissen,1* Hilde Hofkens,1 Wim Mandemakers,2,3 Kris Gevaert,4,5 Bart De Strooper,2,3 and Wim Vandenberghe1,6 1Department of Experimental Neurology and 2Center for Human Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, 3Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, 4Department of Bi...

The fundamental discoveries of Darwin and Mendel established the scientific basis for plant breeding and genetics at the turn of the 20th century. Similarly, the recent integration of advances in biotechnology, genomic research, and molecular marker applications with conventional plant breeding practices has created the foundation for molecular plant breeding, an interdisciplinary science that ...

Contextual data collected concurrently with molecular samples are critical to the use of metagenomics in the fields of marine biodiversity, bioinformatics and biotechnology. We present here Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (M2B3) standards for "Reporting" and "Serving" data. The M2B3 Reporting Standard (1) describes minimal mandatory and recommended contextual inf...

1 THE C-TERMINAL REGION OF THE EXOSOME-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN RRP47 IS SPECIFICALLY REQUIRED FOR BOX C/D SNORNA 3' MATURATION Joe L. Costello, Jonathan A. Stead, Monika Feigenbutz, Rebecca M. Jones and Phil Mitchell From the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Running head: Rrp47 interacts with snoRNP prote...

Morteza Shojaei Moghadam1, Hooi Ling Foo1,2*, Thean Chor Leow2,3, Raha Abdul Rahim2,3 and Teck Chwen Loh4 Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Department of Cell and ...