Area of research
Control and Systems Engineering · Mechanical Engineering
Research interest
Research topics from publications: Predicting the postmortem interval of burial cadavers based on microbial community succession; Quantifying the relative contributions of bacterial and fungal communities to carcass decomposition using a quantitative microbiome profiling approach. Representative work: Carcass microbial decomposition plays a vital role in global elemental cycling. However, bacterial and fungal absolute abundance dynamics, as well as their contributions to carcass decomposition, remain unclear. Here, the questions were investigated through quantitative microbiome profiling (QMP) and metabolomics. Within the first 14 days postmortem, microbial copies in grave soil and tissue increased by several orders of magnitude. Comparison of QMP with relative microbiome profiling (RMP) revealed strikingly different, even opposing successional trends for major phyla. Bacteria drove more metabolite variation than fungi in the decomposition. Co-occurrence networks revealed that key bacteri