Code
01CD12324
Duration
01 September 2024 → 31 December 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Analysis of next-generation sequence data
- Terrestrial ecology
Keywords
Antarctica
metatranscriptomics
Microbial diversity
Arctic
ecosystem functions
climate change
metagenomics
Project description
My PhD focuses on studying the effects of climate change on the composition and functioning of microbial communities in polar deserts and tundra biomes. Therefore, functional genes mainly involved in nutrient and carbon cycling, and biodiversity are studied along environmental gradients using metagenome and metatranscriptome analyses.