How to Use microbiology in a Sentence

microbiology

noun
  • That means a good mulching with a brown mulch to provide the right environment for the correct microbiology.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That’s a change Carini sees more broadly in the world of microbiology research.
    Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Hired in December of 2018, the former San Diego brewer has a doctorate in microbiology and worked for a decade in biotech.
    Andre Meunier, oregonlive.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Physics sits at the bottom, with the sciences of chemistry, microbiology and neuroscience stacked above it.
    Julian Baggini, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Michelle Williams, who has a Ph.D. in microbiology, holds up a liquid sample.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
  • The wastewater samples will be collected at the treatment plants and certain spots along sewer lines, then sent to Smyth and her team at the microbiology lab for testing.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Tan, an expert in microbiology and immunology, adds that the vaccines didn't come out of thin air.
    Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 20 May 2021
  • In the cold tank, during Fowles’s microbiology trimester, the two had a long talk about communicable diseases and whether a mortician might catch one from a corpse.
    Joan Niesen, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • That sourdough starter could now advance the study of microbiology.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 1 May 2020
  • As a scientist, Reynolds works in the area of microbiology and genetics.
    Nicole Blanchard and Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the microbes in these places could yield novel substances for possible use in medicine, said Paul Jensen, a professor of microbiology at Scripps and science team member on the cruise.
    Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • For self-preserving products, Lush looked at the microbiology levels of testers' samples when first made and then after use at around the three-month mark and again at six months to ensure that the product is stable to the very end of its shelf life.
    Liz Leavitt, refinery29.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In general, Reynolds says the microbiology community’s consensus is that the spray can reach around six feet away from the toilet.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The flu virus is covered in proteins shaped like mushrooms, said Florian Krammer, one of the Sinai researchers and a professor of microbiology.
    WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
  • In line with the rest of Jack’s portfolio, malt is fermented using custom yeast strains (grown in the brand’s microbiology lab) and distilled via column copper still.
    Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • After college, Justin Catalana had moved back home to Marin County, armed with a yeast microbiology degree and few job prospects during the recession.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
  • At the time, Otero owned a small microbiology laboratory in Carrizales, in the rural Hatillo province on the northern coast of the island.
    Tia Keenan, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The bottom line is training students for a future in water and microbiology.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Piero has a microbiology background and reads research papers, talks to doctors and connects researchers with each other to share their findings.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Amina has her sights set on finding a life partner and getting her Ph.D. in microbiology.
    Shadan Larki, Variety, 20 June 2022
  • The assignment from Nichole Ward’s microbiology professor was simple: Choose a location, open a petri dish for three minutes and observe what grew over the next two days.
    Maggie Astor, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The Hussains are open-book oversharers and do not care if Amina, who is finishing her Ph.D. in microbiology, gets married or not.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • Finkbeiner, now studying for a Ph.D. in soil microbiology in the lab of Thomas Crowther, remains enthusiastic about the global movement.
    New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • Manthe, who has a bachelor’s degree in microbiology and a brewing degree from Berlin, grows wild strains of yeast and bacteria that he later ages in French-oak and cabernet barrels.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 30 July 2019
  • By the mid-nineteenth century, microbiology and brewing had advanced to the point of scientists isolating lager yeast cells.
    Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Lucy Foulston, whose background is in molecular microbiology, is leading the effort; Tom Keating, a chemist, is working with her.
    New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Crisanti, head of the microbiology department at the University of Padua, already knew trouble was coming and had geared up his lab to do large-scale testing for the new coronavirus.
    Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Small wonder he is widely considered to be the father of microbiology.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2020
  • Jeff Weisburg, a specialist professor who teaches about microbiology, health and disease, said fall hurricanes usually produce the best waves of the year on the East Coast.
    Washington Post, 9 June 2019
  • And those won’t be the last to use the discovery of Graham, who is now senior advisor for global health equity and a professor of medicine and microbiology, biochemistry, and immunology at Morehouse School of Medicine.
    TIME, 2 May 2024

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