Build Your Own Soil: Exploring Microfluidics to Create Microbial Habitat Structures

Overview

Journal ISME J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2017 Nov 15

PMID 29135971

Citations 53

Authors

Kristin Aleklett

E Toby Kiers

Pelle Ohlsson

Thomas S Shimizu

Victor Ea Caldas

Edith C Hammer

Affiliations

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Abstract

Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manipulation of chemical conditions and physical structures at the microscale in soil model habitats.

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