The Berkeley Lab Phylochip
Research led by Eric Dubinsky and Gary Andersen, microbial ecologists at Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, was published recently in the journal Water Research in an article titled, “Microbial source tracking in impaired watersheds using PhyloChip and machine-learning classification.”
Using the award-winning PhyloChip, a credit card-sized device that can detect the presence of more than 60,000 species of bacteria and archaea, a new method was found that was more sensitive than conventional methods at assessing health risks of microbially contaminated water.
Read more about how Berkeley Lab developed a better method of environmental monitoring using the PhyloChip while researching the Russian River watershed by going to the Berkeley Lab News Center (click here).