STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND FUNCTION OF RHIZOBACTERIAL GENOMES (Genetic Ecology of the Rhizosphere)

The group investigates soil microbiology from a systems biology perspective. Current research lines involve the study of the structure, function, plasticity, dinamics and evolution of nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacterial genomes as well as of metagenomes of the plants rhizosphere from agro-forestry ecosystems. Experimental approaches combine clasical microbiology, biochemistry and molecular-genetics methods with cutting edge next generation deep-sequencing technologies.