Laboratorio di Genetica Microbica
Metagenomics and bacterial ecology
Structure-function relationships in microbiomes
We are interested in investigating microbiomes and testing the holobiont theory, as well as predictive models of microbiome functions and temporal dynamics.
Models studied include:
- Biodiversity of invasive plant-associated microbiomes (within the the National Biodiversity Future Centre)
- Exploiting microbiomes of wild blackberries and of novel wild edible leafy plants (within the National Center for Technology in Agriculture)
- Plant-associated microbiome (the SIMBA project and the Crop Microbiome Survey)