Technical Expertise

– Bioinformatics (blast, bio-edit, clustal, muscle, t-coffee)
– Bacterial and algal cultivation techniques including bioreactors
– Macrophage and other eukaryotic cell culture
– Genomic Techniques
– High throughput techniques (i.e. screening, cultivation)
– Molecular Phylogenetics (Arb, mrBayes, phylip, PAUP, PhymL, RAxML)
– Molecular probing (microarrays, whole cell hybridization)
– Molecular techniques (PCR/Cloning/Sequencing)
– Quantitative Real-time PCR (gene quantification)
– High Resolution Melting PCR analysis
– Chemical, physical and biological analyses of seawater and sediments
– Bio-molecule extraction and analysis (oligosaccharides, carbohydrates by  HPLC associated to MS spectrometry)
– Data Analysis