Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Position: Research Staff

Group: Geomicrobiology Research Laboratory

Area(s): Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry

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