Module 11 EN

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

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:

Metagenomics helps answer the question "what is the composition of the microbial community under different conditions?"

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.

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.

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

Which strain of bacteria is capable of degrading trichloroethylene, trichloroethylene, and the toxic metabolite cis-dichloroethylene (cDCE) accumulated in groundwater?

Proteomics is the large-scale study of all proteins that are expressed at a given time by all organisms in an ecosystem.

Genomics studies the genetic material of entire communities of organisms.