Dimitri Meier

Research interests

• Microbial ecology: microbial interactions, functional differentiation and niche partitioning of microorganisms
• Microbial dormancy and microbial activity patterns in complex environments with fluctuating conditions such as soils
• Limits of microbial life and survival strategies in extreme environments, desiccation tolerance
• Extracellular electron transfer in microbial interactions with metals and syntrophic partners
• Big data analysis (“omics”) in environmental microbiology, its advantages and shortcomings 
• Linking culture-independent data-based approaches to cultivation work and geochemical measurements

Areas of expertise

• Metagenomics (assembly, functional annotation, population genome binning)
• Metatranscriptomics
• Marker gene amplicon analysis
• Phylogenetic analysis
• Visualization and quantification of microorganisms in the environment (fluorescence microscopy, various fluorescence in-situ hybridization methods)

List of publications: Dimitri V. Meier @ Google Scholar