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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.
Lab group photo taken in Spring 2023. We are based right next to the Cruickshank gardens
News
Oct 2023: Dr. Lisa Cole has received one-year extension as a Daphne Jackson Fellow funded by NERC.
October 2023: New arrivals - Cheryl Miller has joined the lab as a PhD student to work on methane cycling in peatlands.
August 2023: Conference season - We attended the Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, USA. Ashish and Will gave contributed talks. Ashish was also invited to talk in the Inspire session: Linking Microbial Evolution to Ecosystem Processes for All Ecologists.
Feb 2023: Dr. Kirsten Ball has joined the group with a Marie Curie Fellowship (UKRI guarantee). She is working on linking soil inorganic and organic carbon fractions with a microbial focus.
Oct 2022: PhD student William Pallier gave his first conference oral presentation at the Flow Country Symposium on peatland research in Thurso, Scotland.
October 2023: New arrivals - Cheryl Miller has joined the lab as a PhD student to work on methane cycling in peatlands.
August 2023: Conference season - We attended the Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, USA. Ashish and Will gave contributed talks. Ashish was also invited to talk in the Inspire session: Linking Microbial Evolution to Ecosystem Processes for All Ecologists.
Feb 2023: Dr. Kirsten Ball has joined the group with a Marie Curie Fellowship (UKRI guarantee). She is working on linking soil inorganic and organic carbon fractions with a microbial focus.
Oct 2022: PhD student William Pallier gave his first conference oral presentation at the Flow Country Symposium on peatland research in Thurso, Scotland.