Andrey O. Plotnikov

My current research interests include microbial ecology, interactions between free-living protists and bacteria, and microbial diversity in brackish and saline inland waters. The techniques used in my lab include classical cultivation of microorganisms and their associations, and molecular techniques such as NGS including metagenomics and metatranscriptomics. Currently we are studying protist diversity in saline waters of Russia and in meromictic lakes on the White Sea shoreline.