**Author details**

Elena Piacenza1 , Alessandro Presentato2 , Emanuele Zonaro2 , Silvia Lampis2 , Giovanni Vallini2 and Raymond J. Turner1 \*

\*Address all correspondence to: turnerr@ucalgary.ca

1 Microbial Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

2 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
