Assistant Professor Otto Cordero and researchers from his lab published new research that suggests that ecological interactions between bacteria on particles’ surfaces can impact the rates of carbon turnover in the ocean. The results were published […]
[fusion_text]Assistant Professor Otto Cordero is leading a new Simons Foundation collaboration with Professor Roman Stocker of ETH Zurich and a multidisciplinary team of researchers from across the United States and Europe. The collaboration, called Theory of […]
[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and MechE Xuanhe Zhao and a team of researchers recently developed a workout suit that responds to heat and sweat. The suit is made of live microbial cells that open and close […]
New research finds interactions between microorganisms and marine particles may have significant effects on oceanic carbon cycling. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering In 1930, the deep-sea explorer William Beebe became the first to observe “marine […]
In the ocean, the microenvironment surrounding phytoplankton cells is rich in dissolved organic matter, and bacteria competing for this matter are advantageous if they can perform chemotaxis, the sensing and movement toward a chemical source. Postdocs […]
Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment MIT and Kuwait researchers have been awarded $4 million to fund Underworlds, a study of real-time epidemiology using biomarkers in urban sewage. A team of MIT researchers, together […]
A team of researchers led by CEE Department Head Markus Buehler has succeeded in producing samples of spider silk, an exceptionally strong and resilient material, in the laboratory. The new synthetic fibers’ proteins were created by genetically modifying bacteria […]
