
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Geomicrobiology Research Group
Geochemistry
Phone:
609-258-2387
Email Address:
rliang@princeton.edu
Assistant:
Office Location:
B88 Guyot Hall
CV:
Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Position: Research Staff
Group: Geomicrobiology Research Group
Area(s): Geomicrobiology
Research Summary:
- The survival mechanisms and succession of microbial communities in ancient permafrost of various geological ages
- Integration of metagenomics and metaproteomics to study microbiomes associated with fossilized dinosaur bones and permafrost sediments
- Kinetics of Aspartic racemization and its correlation to the survivability of thermophiles and hyperthermophiles.
Keywords: microbial ecology, “omics”, ancient DNA, biogeochemistry, microbiome, astrobiology