Montana State University researcher uses grant to study little-known but largely useful microbes

Montana State University microbiologist Matthew Fields spends his days trying to understand how interactions on a microscopic scale could change how we think of energy production, climate change and even soil contamination.

Fields studies the physiology and behavior of microbes – the tiny organisms that have inhabited virtually every square inch of the earth’s surface for the past 3.5 billion years.

By Michael Becker, MSU News Service

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