DIGEST
Biodiversity
Evolution of deep biosphere diversity and activity with time
The objective of this work package is to unravel the deep biosphere diversity and activity in one of the highest lakes ever drilled on Earth and to determine the environmental factors influencing this subsurface microbial communities. The final goal is here to disentangle climatic (primary signal) and diagenetic (secondary signal) imprint on paleoenvironmental proxies provided by the sedimentary archives of Nam Co.
The laboratory
We are setting up environmental DNA and RNA extraction facilities to complement the Sedimentary Geochemistry lab at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Notre équipe
Collaborators
Dr. Eric Capo, Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science of Umeå University, Sweden
