Funding
Untangling the infection outcome of host-virus dynamics in algal blooms in the ocean
To explore the mechanisms underlying transformation of host cellular processes and infochemical release/sensing that are induced in response to chronic and lytic viral infections and that can lead to either co-existence or induction of cell death.
The impact of the viral shunt and its metabolic landscape on microbial lifestyles and the flow of carbon during algal blooms (VIBES)
To disentangle the complexity of the oceanic ‘viral shunt’, and elucidate its impact on microbial lifestyles (mutualism and pathogenicity) during algal bloom demise. We aim to uncover the chemical language that mediates these bacterial lifestyles.
Tripartite interactions between an algal host, its virus and associated microbiome generate a unique metabolic footprint in the ocean
To unravel the origin and function of unique metabolic hallmarks, as halogenated metabolites, during E. huxleyi bloom and demise by applying genomic, biochemical, and analytic chemistry tools.
Tracking individuality in cell fate decisions in marine diatoms provides novel insights into the acclimation strategies to environmental stress conditions
To examine individuality in the response of diatoms to diverse environmental stress conditions and to discover unknown genes involved in induction of either programmed cell death (PCD) or acclimation pathways in response to stress.