Environmental Microbiology

The "Environmental microbiology" group works on the study of ecological and autoecological aspects of prokaryotes thriving in natural environments by means of culture independent (metagenomics, clone libraries, fluorescence microscopy...) as well as by culture dependent (isolation, genomics, mass spectroscopy...) methods. The group focuses its work mostly on aquatic habitats, marine and hypersaline environments, and is specialized on bacterial systematics and bioremediation of polluted environments.