North Lakes Mocribial Observatory  

Our primary goal in the Microbial Observatory is to advance the understanding of lake bacterioplankton, whose diversity and population dynamics are currently the least understood off all freshwater planktonic organisms. Through identification and characterization of predominant bacterial populations in a suite of strongly contrasting lakes, we will gain significant new insight into the ecological roles of bacteria in diverse freshwater ecosystems. Our research is structured to answer four key questions:







 

 

 

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