Report on the Joint EU-US Workshop on Microbial Community Dynamics: Cooperation and Competition
- Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
The European Commission (EC)-United States (US) Task Force on Biotechnology Research has a longstanding joint Working Group on Biotechnology for the Environment whose mission is to foster collaborations between researchers in the European Union (EU) and US in the field of environmental biotechnology. A special focus of the Working Group is to increase scientific interchange between early career scientists in the US and EU. Such interactions initiate a foundation of respect and trust needed to develop long-term collaborations. In order to realize the full potential for the application of modern technologies to obtain a sustainable biosphere, it is vital to create conduits for knowledge exchange among scientists worldwide engaged in environmental microbial biotechnology research. Since its formation in 1994, the Working Group has organized many activities for early career scientists designed to promote this scientific exchange, including two week courses with hands-on research experience, intensive workshops of two or three days, and research scholar exchanges of one to six months. These interactions are focused on environmental problems that respect no international boundaries.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0008336
- OSTI ID:
- 1159443
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-MISSOURI-8336
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
09 BIOMASS FUELS
bioenergy
bioremediation
carbon sequestration
microbial communities
biofilms
plant-microbe interactions
microbial signalling
microbial diversity
environmental gene transfer
endophytes
interkingdom signalling
synthetic microbial communities
microbiomes.