We study how microorganisms function, interact, and evolve in complex environments, including aquatic (freshwater and marine), subsurface (peatlands), host-associated (human and animal), and engineered ecosystems.
Broad areas of interest include:
- Microbial and viral ecology, evolution, and diversity
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Microbe–microbe interactions
- Environmental adaptation
- Microbial and viral contributions to environmentally-relevant processes such as sulfur and methane transformations
- Discovery of uncultivated and under-characterized lineages