Evolution of marine microbial eukaryotes

Marine microbial eukaryotes have complex genomes that are difficult to reconstruct from environmental data, and individual cells can be challenging to culture in the laboratory. Using -omics approaches, we can now study the inter- and intraspecific diversity in biogeochemically-relevant strains of marine protists. My current projects on this topic include:

1. Extracting genes from novel lineages from meta-omic data using clustering approaches
2. Studying strain specificity and pangenomic variability in cosmopolitan phytoplankton taxa (Gephyrocapsa huxleyi)