UW Receives $20 Million Grant for Unprecedented Microbial Research Effort
(World News Science)

September 19, 2017 Naomi Ward, UW associate professor of molecular biology, collects soil samples for microbiome analysis at the LaPrele Creek mammoth kill site near Douglas. Sampling of Wyoming soil, plants, water and air will be done at hundreds of sites across the state as part of the university`s major study of microbial life over the next five years. (Todd Surovell Photo) When people look across Wyoming, they see the variety of terrain, vegetation and other life that make up the state`s landscapes, from plains grasslands and productive farmland to sagebrush-steppe deserts and alpine forests. What they don`t see are the innumerable bacteria, fungi and other microbes in the soil, water...