Siyu Mei

PhD project: Eco-evolutionary principles driving soil microbiome adaptations to environmental change

My research is aiming to disentangle the eco-evolutionary principles driving soil microbiome adaptations to environmental change, by verifying the accordance of the response in the soil microbiome to external disturbances and chronosequence with the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, and by analyzing horizontal gene transfer and its mobile genetic elements. Sequence-based methods and statistical analysis are mostly used in my research.