Title: Big-data microbiology; lessons learnt from global surveys
Abstract: Microbes (and the viruses that infect them) control the function and overall health of their ecosystems. Dynamic ecosystems undergoing global change, in turn, impact microbes and their expressed traits, creating a positive feedback loop that accelerates change. Recent technological, analytical, and computational advances have allowed us to ask systems-level questions that encompass microbial and viral community dynamics (along with their potential functional dynamics) and high-resolution environmental measurements. In this talk, I will present the systems-level approaches used in my research to look for the genome- and gene-resolved relationships between these microbial/viral communities and change, across different ecosystems (marine, soil, and gut) and on a global scale.
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https://osu.zoom.us/j/94923872944?pwd=WnhnU3hmb2RHTzRvcnN2SWFYdURnQT09