Module 11 EN

Metabolomics provides a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the metabolic products secreted from the microbial community under different environmental conditions.

What are the most commonly used omics techniques for studying nitrogen-fixing bacteria and rhizobacteria in order to improve their efficiency in agrobiotechnology?

The catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico led to the activation of natural microbial communities with oil-degrading capacity. To identify the key bacteria responsible for natural bioremediation, scientists used:

Metatranscriptomics provides key information about actively expressed genes in a microbial community, as well as about microbial functions under the conditions existing at the time of sampling.

The development of innovative biosensors for the differentiation of light and heavy lanthanides (Ln) is based on the combination of the following omics approaches:

Which omics approaches are crucial for characterizing microbiomes in relation to environmental management, monitoring, and bioremediation?

Gene expression information in a given environmental sample is obtained by capturing total microbiome mRNA and performing comprehensive metatranscriptomic sequencing.

Metatranscriptomics is a high-throughput, culture-independent method for quantifying the levels of expressed mRNA from complex microbial communities.

Fluxomics studies the dynamics of metabolic processes and provides information about the actual levels in metabolic networks, related to both normal cellular activity and in response to environmental changes.

Metagenomics is a comprehensive approach to studying microbial communities through the analysis of genetic material obtained directly from environmental samples, without the need to cultivate specific species.