Research interests
Characterization of diversity patterns of protists across different spatial scales: community ecology, macroecology, biogeography
Characterization of the diversity of protists in the fresh and sea waters, sediments, and soil environments across Europe
Characterization and comparison of the metabolic potential of protists
Revealing the role of protists in the food chains, biogeochemical cycles and their interactions (mutualistic or parasitic) with prokaryotes
Deeper characterization of representatives of non- or poorly described lineages by cultivation or single-cell methods
Understanding the role of microbial eukaryotes in the health and diseases of animals and plants
Reconstruction of the eukaryotic tree of life
Methods
- Sampling skills
- Isolation of DNA and RNA
- Metabarcoding
- Multiomics, binning, assembly and annotation, biochemical pathway reconstruction
- Single-cell genomics/transcriptomics
- Phylogenomics and phylotranscriptomics
- Biostatistics
- Isolation of cells and culturing
- Microscopy – LM, IFA (SIM, STED, STORM), FISH and CARD-FISH, TEM, SEM
- Taxonomy
