T. S. Amar Anand Rao

Amar Anand Rao:Designing a Barophile En T. S. Amar Anand Rao

Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Biology - Micro- and Molecular Biology, grade: A, Indian Institute of Science (Indian Institute of Science), course: Research Project - Marine Microbiology, language: English, comment: Exploring the microbe interactions in deep sea is a challenging prospect. Our tool, the high pressure winogradsky bottle, simulates deep sea environments with simple lab items. It also showed the corrosion of iron that explains the microbial corrosion of steel sunk from sunk ships over a period of time. , abstract: Ever since the days of Holger W. Jannasch, the great deep sea microbiologist, the culturing and isolation of barophiles have come to existence. But using high pressure chemostat facilities are hard and high priced. We discuss a simple lab make barophile enrichment apparatus to culture and study deep sea microbes. We also isolate deep sea microbes that corrodes iron from sunken ships.