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Viral proxies from modern carbonate environments

2019/35/B/ST10/02190

Keywords:

viruses carbonates tufa travertine microbial mat stromatolite

Descriptors:

  • ST10_004:
  • NZ2_001:

Panel:

ST10 - Earth sciences: Earth system science, atmospheric sciences, climatology, geochemistry, geodesy, geoecology, geophysics, physical geography, geoinformatics, planetary geology, pedology, mining, chemical and physical oceanology, environmental protection

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Geologii

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Mirosław Słowakiewicz 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 10

Call: OPUS 18 - announced on 2019-09-16

Amount awarded: 559 915 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2020-06-26

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-12-25

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  1. Influence of different sample preparation techniques on imaging viruses and virus-like particles by scanning electron and scanning transmission electron microscopes
    Authors:
    Monika Kąkol, Ezher Tagliasacchi, Andrzej Borkowski, Mirosław Słowakiewicz
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Microbiology (rok: 2023, tom: 14, strony: 1279720), Wydawca: frontiers
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fmicb.2023.1279720 - link to the publication
  2. Viruses participate in the organomineralization of travertines
    Authors:
    Mirosław Słowakiewicz, Edoardo Perri, Ezher Tagliasacchi, Paweł Działak, Andrzej Borkowski, Michał Gradziński, Sándor Kele, Maurice E. Tucker
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2023, tom: 13, strony: 11663), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-023-38873-5 - link to the publication
  3. Biofilms in modern CaCO3-supersaturated freshwater environments reveal viral proxies
    Authors:
    Mirosław Słowakiewicz, Andrzej Borkowski, Edoardo Perri, Paweł Działak, Ezher Tagliasacchi, Michał Gradziński, Sándor Kele, Lars Reuning, Tom Kibblewhite, Fiona Whitaker, R. Pamela Reid & Maurice E. Tucker
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2024, tom: 14, strony: 25889), Wydawca: Nature Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-024-75998-7 - link to the publication
  4. Biofilms in modern CaCO3-supersaturated freshwater environments reveal viral proxies
    Authors:
    Mirosław Słowakiewicz, Andrzej Borkowski, Edoardo Perri, Paweł Działak, Ezher Tagliasacchi, Michał Gradziński, Sándor Kele, Lars Reuning, Tom Kibblewhite, Fiona Whitaker, R. Pamela Reid & Maurice E. Tucker
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2024, tom: 14, strony: 25889), Wydawca: Nature Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-024-75998-7 - link to the publication
  5. Biomineralization processes in modern calcareous tufa: Possible roles of viruses, vesicles and extracellular polymeric substances (Corvino Valley–Southern Italy)
    Authors:
    Edoardo Perri, Mirosław Słowakiewicz, Ida D Perrotta, Maurice E Tucker
    Academic press:
    Sedimentology (rok: 2022, tom: 69, strony: 399-422), Wydawca: John Wiley & Sons
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/sed.12932 - link to the publication