Environment Microbiology

Next Generation Sequencing as a method for identifying pollutant-degrading bacteria and their communities at the DNA and RNA level.

The development of Next Generation Sequencing has provided us with powerful methods for identifying pollutant-degrading bacteria and their communities at the DNA and RNA level. Furthermore, we are able to decipher complex microbial degradation pathways of pollutants through sequencing. We sequence directly on site and use bioinformatic pipelines and statistical evaluations to generate targeted and well-founded statements about environmental microbiomes.