
Position
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Role
Geomicrobiology Research Laboratory
Title
Geochemistry
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Email
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Office
B85 Guyot Hall
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Bio/Description
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