The Krauter Lab probes the relationship between human microbial populations and human development and disease. They combine genetic analyses, environmental assessments and high-throughput DNA sequence ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Maximilienne Toetie Allaart receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for her postdoctoral work. Her PhD project, of which the work described here was part, was funded through the ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address ...

Christian Krohn's reseach receives funding from an Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre Grant (IC190100033). COVID-19 showed us how useful monitoring wastewater can be ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...