{"id":4,"date":"2025-04-15T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/hestia-front\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:05:02","slug":"hestia-front","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cca8c6abe51a2ba11906be467276923b\"><strong><strong>Microbial Worlds, Ecological Insights<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-68c9f434fe8309f07700dcf81db1c02e\">We study the ecology and genomics of environmental microbes. Based in UPEI\u2019s Biology Department, our lab investigates nitrogen-fixing bacteria, phytoplankton, viruses, and marine fungi across spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales. A lot of this research centres on time-series sampling of aquatic ecosystems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a978440df27885e24beb1c0e7e5ff8f5\">For key microbial players, we also dive further: cultivating understudied microbes in the lab and sequencing their genomes to uncover new insights into microbial metabolism, evolution, seasonal dynamics, and overall ecological function. Our research integrates classical culture-based methods with advanced molecular approaches, including high-throughput genomic sequencing, metabarcoding, metagenomics, and qPCR. We also collaborate with other academic labs to expand into transcriptomics and proteomics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7f6b58331d02a50e67b8404f988ba710\">Studying environmental microbes is essential for mapping microbial biogeography and biodiversity, uncovering novel species interactions, and revealing the biology of understudied microbes\u2014we are especially interested in their specific roles in carbon and nitrogen fixation within ocean biogeochemical cycles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a90916cd6dd846d956e1481f35847f74\">We are always interested in connecting with potential collaborators and graduate students! If you are a UPEI undergrad student interested in conducting research in our lab, please also feel free to contact us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbial Worlds, Ecological Insights We study the ecology and genomics of environmental microbes. Based in UPEI\u2019s Biology Department, our lab investigates nitrogen-fixing bacteria, phytoplankton, viruses, and marine fungi across spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales. A lot of this research centres on time-series sampling of aquatic ecosystems. For key microbial players, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robicheau-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}