Here, we use high-throughput molecular techniques generating multiomic sequence information (DNA, mRNA, and protein) to link microorganisms at the individual, population, and community levels to a wide range of ecosystem functions and services.
By integrating geochemical profiles, process rate measurements (kinetics) and omics data into biogeochemical models we aim to obtain a holistic insight into the microbial metabolic network driving mass and energy flow at ecosystem scales.
Here, we plan to:
- perform laboratory experiments and circumpolar surveys on freshwater and coastal marine microbes
- develop a reference genome set for boreal and arctic aquatic Bacteria and Archaea
- provide experimental data to model microbial metabolism
- integrate geochemical, kinetic and sequence data to model mass and energy flow through aquatic ecosystems
