Papers, book chapters and other reading material
In this course, we don't use a particular textbook and encourage you to find appropriate reading material using resources such as the Web of Science or Google Scholar. To get you started, however, here are a few review papers and book chapters that may be of use to you.
Astrobiology and the cryosphere.
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McCollom 2006. The habitability of Mars.
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Nixon et al. 2013. Plausible microbial metabolisms on Mars.
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Léveillé and Datta 2010. Lava tubes and basaltic caves as astrobiological targets.
Symbiotic associations.
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Sigurbjörnsdóttir et al. 2016. Nutrient scavenging and antagonism in lichen-associated bacteria.
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Büdel and Scheidegger 2008. Lichen thallus morphology and anatomy.
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Barton and Northup 2011. Chapter 6: Microbe-microbe interactions.
Environmental biotechnology.
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Feller and Margesin 2012. Polar microorganisms and biotechnology.
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Greer 2010. Biostimulation of bioremediation in the Arctic.
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Barton and Northup 2011. Chapter 12: Decomposition of natural compounds.
Surface motility, biofilms, etc.
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Maier and Wong 2015. How bacteria use Type IV pili for surface translocation.
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Röder et al. 2017. Multispecies biofilm and how to study them.