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Promoting a mechanistic understanding of the chemical currencies in marine microbial ecosystems in the context of a changing planet and through increased participation in ocean sciences

Mission

The Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) leverages recent advances in analytical and data sciences, incorporates new ocean sampling technologies and an open-science framework, and engages scientists, educators, and policy-makers who bring a variety of expertise, experiences, and viewpoints to bear on promoting a deeper understanding and appreciation of the chemicals and microbial processes that underpin ocean ecosystems and other microbiomes that affect our daily life.

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Dr. Iva Veseli is a postdoc working with Dr. A. Murat Eren in the Ecosystem Data Science group at HIFMB Oldenburg. Within C-CoMP, Iva writes software to help answer core and fundamental questions about microbial ecology 🦠 using big sequencing datasets from the ocean 🌊 . 

The software that Iva develops is used to analyze microbial sequencing data and generate hypotheses about microbial metabolic capacities for further exploration.

Iva is interested in all things microbial - spanning environments from the human gut to the water column - but is very interested in the coral microbiome; microbes are so important for corals 🪸, yet there is still so much we don't know about the roles they play within corals!

#microbialecology #marinemicrobes #softwaredevelopment #sequencingdata #omics #metabolism #metaboliccapacity #oceanography #science #scienceandtechnology
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Robert Li is a bioinformatic technician working with Dr. Rogier Braakman @mit_eaps. His work within C-CoMP integrates ‘omic data and biogeochemical data to understand how environmental forces have shaped the evolution of marine microbial metabolisms. 

Robert’s interests toward understanding complex biological systems led him to C-CoMP, where he is using computational approaches to extract biological insights into marine microbiomes. He plans to bring the research skills he develops at C-CoMP to wherever he ends up next! 

#bioinformatics #omics #marinemicrobes #biogeochemistry #evolution #metabolism #phylogeny #nichepartitioning #ocean #science #oceanography #scienceandtechnology

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C-CoMP is a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (Award # 2019589) that is based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of C-CoMP and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.