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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
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
May 2020: Ashish gave a webinar in the Microseminar series, watch on demand: https://youtu.be/8FNXrlpuBDY
October 2019: Ashish was invited to give a seminar at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Host: Chris Greening. http://www.greeninglab.com
October 2019: Ashish attended the 7th International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter (SOM2019) in Adelaide, Australia. He was chosen to give an oral presentation. http://www.som2019.org/3183
Sept 2019: A perspective article has been published in The ISME Journal. We present a trait-based life history framework to help link microbial processes to systems-level functions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0510-0
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
May 2020: Ashish gave a webinar in the Microseminar series, watch on demand: https://youtu.be/8FNXrlpuBDY
October 2019: Ashish was invited to give a seminar at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Host: Chris Greening. http://www.greeninglab.com
October 2019: Ashish attended the 7th International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter (SOM2019) in Adelaide, Australia. He was chosen to give an oral presentation. http://www.som2019.org/3183
Sept 2019: A perspective article has been published in The ISME Journal. We present a trait-based life history framework to help link microbial processes to systems-level functions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0510-0