Microbial Genomics, community & functional profiling

We are applying genomic toolkits to help illuminate the roles of microbiomes in important and diverse contexts, such as supporting plants, ecosystems, and humans.

We use cutting edge DNA-based methods to better understand microbial community dynamics, assembly, functions, and interactions in plant-soil-microbe, aerobiome, and human-environmental microbiome systems. 

Selected papers and projects

  • Increasing aridity strengthens the core bacterial rhizosphere associations in the pan-palaeotropical C4 grass, Themeda triandra (2024)

  • Agricultural land-use legacies affect soil bacterial communities following restoration in a global biodiversity hotspot (2024)

  • Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes (2024)

  • Can bacterial indicators of a grassy woodland restoration inform ecosystem assessment and microbiota-mediated human health? (2019)

 
Restoration and Conservation Genomics