Colleagues, Can anyone recommend a set-up (or reference to one in the literature) in which we could examine microbial (fungal) growth response in culture to simulated climate change (both past and future). Our ideal experiment would manipulate CO2 and temperature at a minimum, and would be compatible with a 96-well microplate reader or some such assay with reasonable throughput. We'd be measuring growth response of individuals, not communities.
Would a CO2 incubator suffice? Are there more sophisticated or less expensive alternatives? Are there other critical climate change parameters that would be feasible and worth manipulating? Many thanks for your input and advice, Anthony Amend Postdoctoral Scholar Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley [email protected]
