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Environmental Microbiology

Microbial processes play many diverse roles in the environment. Microbes may be involved in environmental remediation, nutrient cycling, and are still forming some of the oldest forms of colonies, the stromatolies.

Research areas include:

• The role of microbes in degradation of toxic pollutants
• The role of microbes in assisting plants to remediate chemical spills
• How microbes in biofilms exchange signals about their environment
• How microbes form and maintain stromatolites
• The role of microbes that colonize plant vascular tissues