David Olugbenga Adetitun

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Is is advisable to use biological oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen to monitor biodegradation and bioremediation of crude oil?

What are your views on the use of OUR (oxygen uptake rate), SOUR (specific oxygen uptake rate), BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and DO Dissolved Oxygen) in measuring biodegradation and...

04 October 2017 2,692 13 View

How can Anthracene, and Biphenyl be sterilized?

We are trying to check the capability of bacteria to degrade anthracene and biphenyl. We do not want any organism on the chemicals to interfere so we want to sterilze biphenyl and anthracene. We...

18 March 2016 1,274 7 View

What is the time lag for a sterile plate to be opened before it can be contaminated with heavy load of organisms from air?

Microbiologists have attributed problems encountered with contaminants while working in the lab. Especially when streaking or pour plating or even subculturing. How long can prepared plates be...

24 September 2014 8,134 4 View

Where & how can one send bacterial isolates for 16s rRNA sequencing & other gene amplifications?

What are the costs?

13 May 2013 9,503 3 View

Can an organism test positive to some biosurfactant test and test negative to others?

I have seen some materials were an organism tests positive to certain biosurfactant tests and negative to some others. For example, some organisms are positive for oil displacement and negative...

01 January 1970 3,506 1 View