Dr. Dimitri Meier

Former Postdoc at DoME

Now: Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich)

Althanstrasse 14

A-1090 Vienna

Austria

dimitri.meier@univie.ac.at

Projects at DoME:

• Microbial dormancy. Drought survival strategies and resuscitation of desert biological soil crust communities
• Revealing element cycling and microbial survival strategies in naturally occurring ultra-saline coastal microbial mats (New Investigator grant, Community Sequencing Project with Joint genome Institute).

Research Interests:

• Microbial ecology and interactions, differentiation and niche partitioning of microorganisms
• Limits of microbial life and drought survival strategies
• Microbial sulfur cycling and interaction with iron-sulfur minerals
• Big data analysis (“omic”) in environmental microbiology
• Linking culture-independent data approaches to geochemical measurements and cultivation work

Currently used approaches:

• Metagenomics (resolved by population genomes)
• Metatranscriptomics (& proteomics)
• Marker gene amplicon analysis
• Phylogenetic analysis
• Visualization and quantification of microorganims (fluorescence microscopy, various fluorescence in situ hybridization methods