Engineering an incubation environment that mimics in situ conditions for in vitro coastal microbiome studies.
Engineering an incubation environment that mimics in situ conditions for in vitro coastal microbiome studies.
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10.2144/btn-2022-0080
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2022-10
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Coastal environments are dynamic and can vary widely on short- or long-term scales depending on location and weather. Incubation equipment that reflects these changes through programmable gradient light and temperature cycles would permit more precise in vitro coastal microbiome studies. Here we present an open-source incubation environment that mimics in situ conditions for in vitro coastal microbiome studies using a modified shaking water bath that has fully customizable temperature and light gradients that can also mimic real-time field conditions. We compared coastal microbial community profiles incubated in situ and in our build mimicking field conditions over 48 h. Analyses of congruence indicated significant overlap (p > 0.2) between microbial communities incubated in situ and in vitro at each time point. We present schematics for modifying a shaking water bath that can be programmed to modulate photosynthetically active radiation from 0 to 160 μmol/m2/s as well as temperature cycling from 2 to 100 °C, which can be adjusted using live temperature data to mimic current field conditions, when data are available. This functionality permits microbiome studies where fluctuating light and temperature conditions are crucial for experimental conditions. Modification of a shaking water bath that can be programmed to have a fully customizable gradient light and temperature cycling from 2 to 100 °C, or that can scrape live data from and mimic current field conditions, when data are available.