Systems biology

Systems biology of microbial cultures & metagenomes

Genomics & transcriptomics of microbes involved in methane metabolism

• Genome sequencing and resequencing
• Metabolic reconstruction
• Transcriptomics

Collaborators: Lidstrom Lab including Mary Lidstrom, Mila Chistoserdova, Marina Kalyuzhnaya

Environmental metagenomics in biogeochemical cycling

• Probing the role of methane consumers in the natural environment
• Community dynamics in fresh water sediments
• Nitrogen metabolism

Collaborators: Lidstrom Lab including Mary Lidstrom, Mila Chistoserdova, Marina Kalyuzhnaya

Oral microbial communities and their role in disease

• Proteomics of model oral microbial communities
• Transcriptomics of model oral microbial communities
• Methods development for proteomics of microbial communities

Collaborators: Hackett Lab & Center for Microbial Proteomics