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The lab led by Ashish Malik focuses on understanding soil microbial processes and the underlying mechanisms from population and community to ecosystem scales. The aim is to link microbial biodiversity and physiology to element cycling with a focus on soil carbon. A key question is also to determine how environmental change affects these linkages and thus ecosystem functioning.
We promote diversity and inclusivity in our efforts and welcome researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.
We promote diversity and inclusivity in our efforts and welcome researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.
To get a flavour of the kind of research we do, watch a recorded seminar in the link below:
News
Sept 2021: PhD student William Pallier has secured funding from NERC Environmental Omics Facility for his sequencing work on peatland microbes.
Aug 2021: Dr Lisa Cole has joined the lab as a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellow. She is funded by NERC and her project is examining soil carbon response to land use change through the lens of microbiome traits.
Feb 2021: Ashish gave an invited online talk in the Geomicrobiology Network Seminar Series. https://www.minersoc.org/gmbn-seminars.html
Oct 2020: William Pallier has joined the lab as a PhD student. He is funded by a NERC SUPER PhD studentship and his project aims to link microbial physiology with carbon transformations in peatlands under land use change.
May 2020: New paper published in The ISME Journal. Title: Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production. https://rdcu.be/b4pQY
Aug 2021: Dr Lisa Cole has joined the lab as a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellow. She is funded by NERC and her project is examining soil carbon response to land use change through the lens of microbiome traits.
Feb 2021: Ashish gave an invited online talk in the Geomicrobiology Network Seminar Series. https://www.minersoc.org/gmbn-seminars.html
Oct 2020: William Pallier has joined the lab as a PhD student. He is funded by a NERC SUPER PhD studentship and his project aims to link microbial physiology with carbon transformations in peatlands under land use change.
May 2020: New paper published in The ISME Journal. Title: Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production. https://rdcu.be/b4pQY